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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. Traditional
Forms and Cosmic Cycles is a wide-ranging collection of articles
that could just as well have been called Fragments of an Unknown
History. Although they must remain fragments, as Guenon did not
return to many of these themes again, it would have been
regrettable to leave such fascinating articles buried in old
journals, and so this posthumous collection is now offered to
Anglophone readers for the first time. by two pieces on Atlantis
and Hyperborea. Two sections follow, concerned respectively with
the Hebrew Tradition and the Egyptian Tradition. The former
comprises five articles concerned primarily with the Kabbalah and
the Science of Numbers, and the latter includes three articles on
Hermes and the Hermetic Tradition. Book reviews are inserted at
relevant points. To lend the collection coherence, no other
spiritual Traditions are here represented. A list of the Collected
Writings of Rene Guenon has been provided for those who wish to
investigate Guenon's metaphysical expositions on such topics as
Christianity, Islam, the Greco-Latin Traditions, Celtism, etc.
Ren Gunon (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. In The Esoterism
of Dante, Gunon undertakes to establish that the three parts of The
Divine Comedy represent a recital of the process of initiatic
realization, and testify to Dante's knowledge of traditional
sciences that are unknown to the moderns: the science of numbers,
that of cosmic cycles, and sacred astrology. In this work Gunon
also touches on the all important question of medieval esoterism.
In his work Insights into Christian Esoterism, Gunon discusses the
role of sacred languages and the principle of initiation in the
Christian tradition as well as such esoteric Christian themes and
organizations as the Holy Grail, the Guardians of the Holy Land,
the Sacred Heart, the Fedeli d'Amore and the 'Courts of Love', and
the Secret Language of Dante. The present book focuses more closely
on the latter, drawing parallels with Hermetic, Rosicrucian, and
Masonic symbolism. The Collected Works of Ren Gunon 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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