Rene Guenon (1886-1951) is undoubtedly one of the luminaries of the
twentieth century, whose critique of the modern world has stood
fast against the shifting sands of recent philosophies. His oeuvre
of 26 volumes is providential for the modern seeker: pointing
ceaselessly to the perennial wisdom found in past cultures ranging
from the Shamanistic to the Indian and Chinese, the Hellenic and
Judaic, the Christian and Islamic, and including also Alchemy,
Hermeticism, and other esoteric currents, at the same time it
directs the reader to the deepest level of religious praxis,
emphasizing the need for affiliation with a revealed tradition even
while acknowledging the final identity of all spiritual paths as
they approach the summit of spiritual realization. Guenon's early
and abiding interest in mathematics, like that of Plato, Pascal,
Leibnitz, and many other metaphysicians of note, runs like a
scarlet threat throughout his doctrinal studies. In this late text
published just five years before his death, Guenon devotes an
entire volume to questions regarding the nature of limits and the
infinite, both with respect to the calculus as a mathematical
discipline, and to the symbolism of the initiatic path. This book
therefore extends and complements the geometrical symbolism Guenon
employs in several of his other works, especially The Symbolism of
the Cross, The Multiple States of the Being, and Symbols of Sacred
Science. A sampling of chapter titles will convey some sense of
this remarkable work: 'Infinite and Indefinite', 'Degrees of
Infinity', 'Zero is not a Number', 'The Law of Continuity',
'Vanishing Quantities', 'Various Orders of Indefinitude', 'The
Arguments of Zeno of Elea', 'The True Conception of Passage to the
Limit'. The Collected Works of Rene Guenon brings together the
writings of one of the greatest prophets of our time, whose voice
is even more important today than when he was alive. Huston Smith,
author of The World's Religions, etc.
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