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Although known as a concrete poet, critic, translator, and artist in the art and poetry worlds, Houedard was also well versed in religious thoughts and traditions. Educated in the Christian monastic and contemplative traditions, Dom Sylvester had a deep knowledge of many forms of belief, which he saw as different expressions of a single wisdom. A pioneer of the wider ecumenism, he had active contacts with Tibetan Buddhism and the work of the great Islamic mystic Muhyddin Ibn' Arabi. In these talks given near the end of his life, Dom Sylvester illuminates the meanings embedded in six of Eckhart's greatest sermons. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This a rough draft for a theologic text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dom (Pierre-)Sylvester Houédard (16 February 1924"“15 January 1992), also known under the acronym dsh, was a Benedictine priest, theologian and noted concrete poet. Born on Guernsey, Houédard was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. He served in British Army Intelligence from 1944 to 1947, and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, being ordained as a priest in 1959. Houédard was a leading exponent of concrete poetry, with regular contributions to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s onward. His elaborate, typewriter-composed visual poems ("typestracts") were scattered across many chapbooks, including Kinkon (1965) and Tantric Poems Perhaps (1966). Among his best-known works is the poem Frog-Pond-Plop, his English rendition of a zen haiku by Matsuo Basho. Houédard became literary editor of the Jerusalem Bible in 1961. Houédard cultivated an interest in multiple religious traditions; he wrote commentaries on Meister Eckhart and was a founder...

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This letter page might be a seicond of two that cannot be found. In it, Houedard discusses the religious life of monks as seen from the outside world.The remainder of the letter deals with meeting the person to whom it is addressed. Desmond, a prisoner that dsh befriended is also mentioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Although this is a letter to Charles Cameron, it could be considered a manuscript as Houedard expounds on the etymology of logec or logos and touches upon points later made in Wikipedia. Wikipedia: Logos (/ˈloÊŠÉ¡É’s/, /ˈlÉ’É¡É’s/, or /ˈloÊŠÉ¡oÊŠs/; Greek: λόγος, from λέγω lego "I say") is an important term in philosophy, psychology, rhetoric, and religion. Originally a word meaning "a ground", "a plea", "an opinion", "an expectation", "word", "speech", "account", "reason", it became a technical term in philosophy, beginning with Heraclitus (ca. 535"“475 BC), who used the term for a principle of order and knowledge. Ancient philosophers used the term in different ways. The sophists used the term to mean discourse, and Aristotle applied the term to refer to "reasoned discourse" or "the argument" in the field of rhetoric.The Stoic philosophers identified the term with the divine animating principle pervading the Universe. Under Hellenistic Judaism, Philo (ca. 20 BC "“ AD...

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This essay deals with the character of Dom Sylvester Houedard. Luytens is a religious commentator. This essay is stored with Houedard material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.