Traditional Forms and Cosmic Cycles (Collected Works of Rene Guenon) - Hardcover

Guènon, Renè

 
9780900588174: Traditional Forms and Cosmic Cycles (Collected Works of Rene Guenon)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0900588179 ISBN 13: 9780900588174
Verlag: Sophia Perennis, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

The articles collected in this volume represent some of the most unusual from Guénon’s pen. They could be described as fragments of an unknown history, a history reaching back through prehistory to protohistory, for they begin with the Primordial Tradition contemporaneous with the beginnings of present humanity.The text opens with a study on cosmic cycles, taking as point of departure the Hindu doctrine of the Manvantara, though similar doctrines appear in Greco-Roman antiquity, among Jewish Kabbalists, Islamic Sufis and Ismailis, and in the Hopi, Lakota, and Maya nations of the New World. Essential to this doctrine is that earlier ages differed qualitatively from ours, which may explain why our historicism and archaeology have yet to come to grips with ’Hyperborea’ and ’Atlantis’, despite the many clues embedded throughout mythology, folklore, sacred architecture, etc. That is, our own time’s quality cannot simply be projected backwards into past ages. In presenting Hyperborean and Atlantean lore-the cyclical mysteries of the West and the North-as well as material on the Hebrew Kabbalah and Egyptian Hermeticism, Guénon successfully transmits the requisite sense of such ’other’ times, which for some may awaken the intuition of higher levels of Being.

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The articles collected in this volume represent some of the most unusual from Guénon's pen. They could be described as fragments of an unknown history, a history reaching back through prehistory to protohistory, for they begin with the Primordial Tradition contemporaneous with the beginnings of present humanity. The text opens with a study on cosmic cycles, taking as point of departure the Hindu doctrine of the Manvantara, though similar doctrines appear in Greco-Roman antiquity, among Jewish Kabbalists, Islamic Sufis and Ismailis, and in the Hopi, Lakota, and Maya nations of the New World. Essential to this doctrine is that earlier ages differed qualitatively from ours, which may explain why our historicism and archaeology have yet to come to grips with 'Hyperborea' and 'Atlantis', despite the many clues embedded throughout mythology, folklore, sacred architecture, etc. That is, our own time's quality cannot simply be projected backwards into past ages. In presenting Hyperborean and Atlantean lore-the cyclical mysteries of the West and the North-as well as material on the Hebrew Kabbalah and Egyptian Hermeticism, Guénon successfully transmits the requisite sense of such 'other' times, which for some may awaken the intuition of higher levels of Being.

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Verlag
Sophia Perennis
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0900588179
ISBN 13 
9780900588174
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
136
Herausgeber
Wetmore James Richard
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