"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abstract

1.  The Gates of Damascus

2.  The Pride of Haroon

3.  The Path of Reason

4.  The Mystic Tide

5.  The West

6.  Epilogue

Notes, Maps

NB: An edited excerpt from this essay was published as The Station of Light in Nimble Spirit Review, Nov 2004.