The Essential Rene Guenon

Author : René Guénon
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1933316578
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Ren‚ Gu‚non written by René Guénon and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prolific writer and author of over 24 books, Rene Guenon was the founder of the Perennialist/Traditionalist school of comparative religious thought. Known for his discourses on the intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of the modern world, symbolism, tradition, and the inner or spiritual dimension of religion, this book is a compilation of his most important writings. A key component of his thought was the assertion that universal truths manifest themselves in various forms in the world's religions and his writings on Hinduism, Taoism, and Sufism are particularly illuminating in this regard.

Author : René Guénon
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9780900588693
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Hinduism written by René Guénon and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of various aspects of the traditional metaphysical doctrines of the Hindu Tradition, along with extensive book and article reviews

Author : René Guénon
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9780900588426
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Initiation and Spiritual Realization written by René Guénon and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initiation and Spiritual Realization is the closest thing to a work on 'spiritual direction' René Guénon ever wrote, touching as it does upon such vital topics as the transmission of initiatic grace, the various types and functions of the spiritual master, obstacles the aspirant is likely to encounter, different modes of contemplation, and the degrees of spiritual realization. A companion volume to Perspectives on Initiation, where Guénon had defined the nature of initiation and of the organizations qualified to transmit it, Initiation and Spiritual Realization was the first thematic collection of Guénon's articles to appear after his death. And one doctrine expressed in this book stands out as particularly timely: that esoterism is not and cannot be a religion in itself, since to take it as such is to reduce it to an 'alternative' exoterism, and a heterodox one at that. Initiatic esoterism can only be legitimately and effectively practiced within the context of one of the established, revealed religions.

Author : René Guénon
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9780900588747
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines written by René Guénon and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: René Guénon's Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines can serve as an introduction to all his later works-especially those which, like Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta, The Symbolism of the Cross, The Multiple States of the Being, and Studies in Hinduism, expound the more profound aspects of metaphysical doctrines in greater detail. In Part I Guenon clears away certain ingrained prejudices inherited from the 'Renaissance', with its adulation of the Greco-Roman culture and its compensating depreciation-both deliberate and instinctive-of other civilizations. In Part II he establishes the fundamental distinctions between various modes of thought and brings out the real nature of metaphysical or universal knowledge-an understanding of which is the first condition for the personal realization of that 'Knowledge' which partakes of the Absolute. Words like 'religion', 'philosophy', 'symbolism', 'mysticism', and 'superstition', are here given a precise meaning. Part III presents a more detailed examination of the Hindu doctrine and its applications at different levels, leading up to the Vedanta, which constitutes its metaphysical essence. Lastly, Part IV resumes the task of clearing away current misconceptions, but is this time concerned not with the West itself, but with distortions of the Hindu doctrines that have arisen as a result of attempts to read into them, or to graft onto them, modern Western conceptions. The concluding chapter lays down the essential conditions for any genuine understanding between East and West, which can only come through the work of those who have attained, at least in some degree, to the realization of 'wisdom uncreate'-that intellective, suprarational knowledge called in the East jñana, and in the West gnosis.

Author : René Guénon
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9780900588655
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Symbolism of the Cross written by René Guénon and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Symbolism of the Cross is a major doctrinal study of the central symbol of Christianity from the standpoint of the universal metaphysical tradition, the 'perennial philosophy' as it is called in the West. As Guernon points out, the cross is one of the most universal of all symbols and is far from belonging to Christianity alone. Indeed, Christians have sometimes tended to lose sight of its symbolism of its symbolical significance and to regard it as no more than the sign of a historical event. By restoring to the full spiritual value as a symbol, but without in any way detracting from its historical importance for Christianity, Guenon has performed a task of inestimable importance which perhaps only he, with his unrivaled knowledge of the symbolic languages of both East and West, was qualified to perform.

Author : René Guénon
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times written by René Guénon and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1972 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critique of modern Western civilization from the point of view of traditional metaphysics

Author : René Guénon
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9780900588617
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta written by René Guénon and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Br> Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta by Guénon, René; Nicholson, Richard C. (Translator) Terms of use A study of the constitution and development of the human being from the metaphysical point of view, with special reference to Vedantic doctrine. Descriptive content provided by Syndetics"! a Bowker service.

Author : René Guénon
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9780900588402
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Triad written by René Guénon and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical Triad of the Chinese tradition is Heaven-Man-Earth. René Guénon places this ternary in the context of universal metaphysics by identifying Heaven with Essence and Earth with Substance, the mediator between them being Man, whose cosmic function is to embody spirit (Heaven) while simultaneously spiritualizing matter (Earth). Exploring Chinese cosmology further, Guénon sheds light on such archetypal polarities as Heaven and Earth, Yin and Yang, Solve et Coagula, Celestial and Terrestrial Numbers, the Square and the Compass, the Double Spiral, and the Being and the Environment, while pointing to their synthetic unity in terms of ternaries, such as the Three Worlds, Triple Time, Spiritus, Anima, and Corpus, Sulfur, Mercury and Salt, and God, Man, and Nature. Perhaps more completely than in any other work, Guénon demonstrates in The Great Triad how any integral tradition is both a mirror reflecting universal themes found in all other intact traditions and an entire conceptual cosmos unto itself, unique and incomparable.

Author : Frithjof Schuon
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780941532921
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Frithjof Schuon written by Frithjof Schuon and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the best essays by the religious philosopher on a variety of spiritual subjects.

Author : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1933316381
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr written by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The highest honor a philosopher can receive is to be nominated by his peers for inclusion in the series of The Library of Living Philosophers [for which the] latest entry is The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr. And the highest honor a theologian can receive is to be invited to deliver the Gifford Lectures in Glasgow, Scotland. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is the only person ever to have received both of these honors.... This valuable book distills the essence of the thought of one of the most important thinkers or our times." Book jacket.