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Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (March 9 1907, Bucharest - April 22 1986, Chicago) was a Romanian philosopher of religion and writer (fantasy and autobiographical). He spoke 8 languages fluently (Romanian, French, German, Italian, English, Hebrew, Persian and Sanskrit).
In 1928, at the University of Bucharest, he met Emile Cioran and Eugène Ionesco, and the three became lifelong friends. He has been criticized for alleged connections in his youth with Garda de Fier (The Iron Gard), an extreme-right-wing political organization. However, it is not at all clear that the personal associations of his youth had any great influence on his scholarly production, which began after a long period of study in India.
Scientific Books
- Yoga: Essai sur les origines de la mystique indienne, (1936)
- Cosmologie si alchemie babiloniana, (1937)
- Commentarii la legenda mesterului Manole, (1943)
- Techniques du yoga, (1948)
- Traité d'histoire des religions, (1949)
- Le Mythe de l'eternel retour: archétypes et répetition, (1949)
- Le Chamanisme, (1951)
- From Primitives To Zen (full text)
Literary Books
- Maitreyi, (1933)
- Întoarcea din rai, (1934)
- Huliganii, (1935)
- Domnisoara Christina, (1936)
- Nunta în cer, (1938)
- Pe strada Mantuleasa, (1968)
- La tiganci, (1969)
See also: Literature of Romania, List of fantasy authors, Philosophy of religion
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Mircea Eliade
mikeenviro@aol.com - June 21st, 2005
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I'm commenting after reading Mircea Eliade's book "The Sacred and the Profane". In the book, Mr. Eliade writes that man imitates the gods and that these are sacred acts even when man allows himself to be led into acts that verged on madness, depravity, and crime (p.104). It is not a stretch to think if greed should be on his list as well. There are unsavory elements of mankind (mafia, gangs, etc.) that continue to leverage mankind into further acts of crime when they have knowledge a person has committed crimes. Leverage is used by so many parties to get
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