Prophet for a Dark Age: A Companion to the Works of Rene Guenon - Softcover

Rooth, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845192516 ISBN 13: 9781845192518

Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 2008

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"The works of Ren Gu non (1886-1951) are the focus of this book, presented in translation with commentary and a glossary for unfamiliar terms. The title is divided into four sections of work: religion and the primordial tradition, the spiritual journey and the integral being, western society and the growth of modernity, and symbolism, with each section providing extracts of Gu non (1886-1951) are the focus of this book, presented in translation with commentary and a glossary for unfamiliar terms. The title is divided into four sections of work: religion and the primordial tradition, the spiritual journey and the integral being, western society and the growth of modernity, and symbolism, with each section providing extracts of Gu non's work with observations and summarizations by Rooth. Although all of Gu non's books and most of his articles are available in translation through the Sophia Perennis Press, his work remains largely unknown in the Western world; this title attempts to bring the tenets of 'Gu nonian traditionalism' to a wider audience." --Reference & Research Book News

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Rene Guenon is a major figure for anyone who recognises a need to rediscover the spiritual roots from which Western society has become so comprehensively alienated. Immersing himself in the search for spiritual truth, he chose Islam as the vehicle for his spiritual life. Settling in Egypt, he clarified and deepened our understanding of the teachings of traditional metaphysics, his central message being that there is at the source of all humanity's traditions a 'Primordial Tradition' -- a Universal Metaphysics which sets out the principles that underlie this Tradition. The truths it embodies are universal and unchanging, and form part of a unified body of higher knowledge which transcends the multiplicity of religious dogmas and philosophical systems that abound in Western society. He wrote about the need to transcend the formal and emotional aspect of religion in order to prepare ourselves for an understanding of 'pure metaphysics'. He explained how traditional societies achieved this, exploring the symbols used, in order to help individuals forward to levels of understanding which are otherwise inaccessible to minds blinkered by the limitations of the currently prevailing Western approach to existence and its meaning.

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• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1845192516
• ISBN 13: 9781845192518
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 343