Fons Vitae is dedicated to preserving in print for future
generations the extraordinarily important work of Titus Burckhardt,
who devoted his life to the exposition of Universal Truth, that
wisdom "uncreate" in the realm of metaphysics, cosmology, and
sacred art. In addition to Burckhardt's Alchemy: Science of the
Cosmos, Letters of a Sufi Master, and Moorish Culture in Spain,
Fons Vitae is honored to add to the series Sacred Art, East and
West, Mystical Astrology according to lbn 'Arabi, and Mirror of the
Intellect.
An eminent Swiss metaphysician and scholar of oriental
languages, Titus Burckhardt (1908-1984) devoted his life to the
timeless and universal wisdom present in Sufism, Vedanta, Taoism,
Platonism, and the other great esoteric and sapiential traditions.
Though an art historian like his great uncle, the renowned Jacob
Burckhardt, his main interest was the spiritual use and meaning to
be found in Eastern and Western art and architecture, and the
expression of the sacred in the lives of saints.
This is a virtually complete collection of Burckhardt's essays,
originally published throughout his long life in a variety of
German and French journals. Their range is tremendous -- from
sacred cosmology and modern science through Christianity and Islam
to symbolism and mythology. The chief virtue of the collection is
precisely its comprehensiveness; both quantitatively and
qualitatively it is extremely rich.
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