Sophia Perennis imprint: 30 books
Findings
In Metaphysic, Path, & Lore
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
The Traditionalist or Perennialist School of metaphysics, esoterism, and comparative religion, ‘founded’ by René Guénon and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, and carried on by such figures as Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, and Martin Lings, produced a body doctrine of rare depth and comprehension, effectively...
Yuga
An Anatomy of Our Fate
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
YUGA describes five falls—the Fall into Time, the Reign of Quantity, the Mutation into Machinery, the End of Nature, and the Prison of Unreality. Taken together, these comprise the fate of historical humanity and are, the author is convinced, one-way trips. And the urban-industrial-vehicular-commercial-technological-pharmaccutical-electronic-information-spectator...
by Arthur Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2006
ARTHUR OSBORNE has collected in this small volume all of the essential information relating to the life and teachings of Sri Raman Maharshi (1879–1950), one of the foremost sages of modern India. As a teenager, Sri Ramana realized the Self through a spontaneous act of self-enquiry without conscious...
Rene Guenon And The Future Of The West
The Life and Writings of a 20th-Century Metaphysician
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Jean Borella taught philosophy at the University of Nancy until 1995. A Platonist by formation, he has been strongly influenced by Guénon and Eastern metaphysics. But his deepest inspiration derives from unceasing meditation on the Christian faith, which led him to undertake the present searching critique...
by Frithjof Schuon
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2004
RÉNÉ GUÉNON (1886-1951) was the founder of the Traditionalist School. Along with Ananda K. Commaraswamy and Frithjof Schuon, he reintroduced traditional metaphysics and esoterism into Western world after a lapse of centuries, and was perhaps the first to present the doctrines of the Vedanta, Taoism,...
The Esoteric Path
An Introduction to the Hermetic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
The Estoric path firmly situates that path in its appropriate, traditional context, and point him or her in the right direction, away from the time-and soul-consuming attractions of those 'paths' that exhibit 9in the author's word) 'the confusion between the spiritual and the psychic...the identification...
The Quantum Enigma
Finding the Hidden Key
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2005
Following the overthrow of the classical world picture by the findings of quantum mechanics, physicists have proposed a broad gamut of alternative world views. This book begins with the major recognition that each of these suffers from a certain ‘residual Cartesianism’ that has been smuggled in unconsciously....
Call Of The Infinite
The Way of Shin Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Buddhism is much more diverse and multifaceted than many people think. Shin ('Pure Land') Buddhism manages to be, simultaneously, one of the most widely practiced forms of this tradition (the largest Buddhist school in Japan) and the least understood in the West. From the beginning, Shin was a highly...
The Virtues Of The Prophet
A Young Muslim’s Guide to the Greater Jihad, The War Against the Passions
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2006
IN THE RELIGION OF ISLAM the character of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessing be upon him, is the model of human virtue. Orphan, exile, contemplative, successful businessman, long-time faithful husband to one wife, husband to several wifes in his later years, statesman, judge, warrior, conqueror,...
Reflections of Tasawwuf
Essays, Poems, and Narrative on Sufi Themes
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2008
Sufism is the practice of remaining aware of the real presence of God in every circumstance, until Certainly is reached. The dizzying complexity of Sufi metaphysics, the passionate beauty of Sufi poetry, and the profound Sufi science of spiritual psychology, are all based on this. The Sufi Path is the...
Al-Kimia
The Mystical Islamic Essence of the Sacred Art of Alchemy
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Al-Kimia – The Mystical Islamic Essence of the Sacred Art of Alchemy by John Eberly presents a condensed history of Alchemy told through concise biographies of early Sufi Masters, Chapters examine occult areas of alchemical and spiritual interest such as jafr, an exegetical Qur’anic science akin...
Russian Spirituality And Other Essays
Mysteries of Our Time seen through the eyes of a Russian Esotericist
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
These wisdom-filled articles are gems offered us by the Russian esotericist Valentin Tomberg (1900–1973). Written in the 1930s, at the time he was also writing important studies on the Old Testament, New Testament, and the Apocalypse, these early articles presage Tomberg’s later, more mature works...
The System Of Antichrist
Truth and Falsehood in Postmodernism and the New Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
The System of Antichrist examines the present religious and cultural scene from the standpoint of traditional metaphysics and critiques the New Age spiritualities within their postmodern context. Its many references to Rene Guenon and Frithjof Schuon also help introduce these important but little-known...
Science And Religion In Archaic Greece
Homer on Immortality & Parmenides at Delphi
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
How far has the Western intellect come since Homer and the earliest Greek philosophers? Nearly three millennia have passed, and in our own eyes we have made enormous progress since those times, especially in the last five centuries. But this, of course, depends on our peculiar way of reading Homer and...