Dear Readers:

We are excited to share that the Summer 2025 edition of Sacred Web (Volume 52) is now available.

Sacred Web has been published in print for over 25 years, spanning 50 volumes that cover teachings from all the major faith and wisdom traditions. With our second digital edition, we continue our focus on the essential importance of the Sacred in navigating the issues of the modern world.

Our latest publication explores a variety of topics rooted in this intention, featuring essays on the heart-symbolism of the Cup of Jamshid, the spiritual roots of homelessness, the nature of the conscious soul, and the crisis of moral responsibility in modernity. This volume includes contributions from traditions spanning Sufism, Shin Buddhism, Christian mysticism, and others, through the mediums of essays, poetry, and a travelogue.

As a reader-supported publication, we rely on the generosity of our community. If you find value in our work and wish to support us, donations are gratefully welcomed. Your support ensures that Sacred Web continues to thrive and is able to sustain its aim to provide high-quality, accessible scholarship to readers like you.

Sacred Web is also entirely volunteer-run. Meet the team behind our publication here, and if you are interested in contributing your time and talent to help sustain and grow Sacred Web, please reach out.

Pax et bonum.

M. Ali Lakhani (Founder and Editor)

Essays in Sacred Web Volume 52:

The Cup of King Jamshid
Nigel Jackson’s cover for SW52 is accompanied by his explanation of the Emperor’s Cup as the Heart-Centre of the divinely anointed Universal Man.
Sacred WebNigel Jackson
The Conscious Soul: “That Which Breathes Fire into the Equations”
Professors Noraini Noor and Aziuddin Ahmad consider Stephen Hawking’s question about what breathes fire into the equations of the universe, and relate their examination of this to a spiritual universe, the reality of the conscious soul and the essence of Man.
Sacred WebNoraini M. Noor
Leo Schaya’s Journey to Morocco (1950) – Part 2
In the second part of this travelogue (the first part appeared in SW51), Schaya records his remarkable encounter with a Moroccan Sufi Sheikh, and provides us with a rare glimpse into a traditional world.
Sacred WebFatima Jane Casewit
The Essence of Shin Buddhism
An overview of the Dharma by the Shin Buddhist Master, Reverend Saizo Inagaki.
Sacred WebSaizo Inagaki
Homelessness: A Rupture of Belonging
Samuel Bendeck Sotillos reflects on the modern epidemic of homelessness and its spiritual causes.
Sacred WebSamuel Bendeck Sotillos
Humanity and the Crisis of Conscience in the Modern World
Drawing on spiritual lessons from King Lear, as he had done in his essay on the Gaza War (in SW51), M. Ali Lakhani examines the roles of conscience and individual moral responsibility in the Kali Yuga.
Sacred WebM. Ali Lakhani
A Meditation on the Centrality of the Human Form
Charles Upton reflects on what it means to be ‘Human’ in an essentially ‘Fortean’ world.
Sacred WebCharles Upton
Kathleen Raine: “Keeping the Divine Vision”
Harry Oldmeadow assesses the life and work of the British poet, literary scholar, and champion of the ‘Ancient Springs’ of Tradition.
Sacred WebHarry Oldmeadow
The New Pope: The Decisive Criterion
Mateus Soares de Azevedo raises questions about Catholic modernism and its relationship to traditional understandings of orthodoxy and the legitimacy of the papacy.
Sacred WebMateus Soares de Azevedo
A Hopeful Qur’an
Reflection on a passage from the Tafsir of Imam al-Qurtubi on the nature of the Qur’an, highlighting the Revelation’s ability to provide hope by virtue of its transcendent reservoir of meanings.
Sacred WebTariq Samady
Seven Short Meditations on the Incarnate Logos
Poetry by Brian Keeble, accompanied by an engraving by Eric Gill.
Sacred WebBrian Keeble
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