Sophia Perennis: 30 books
The Wandering Fool & Three Lectures on Hermeticism
Love and its Symbols, Early Studies on the Tarot
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
In 1982 there appeared a remarkable book, written by an author who wished to remain anonymous, entitled Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism. This book was destined to become a spiritual classic of the twentieth century. Distinguished scholar Antoine Faivre called it “the...
by Robert Bolton
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
“For a long time now, religion in the West has been polarized between a democratic kind of faith meant for simple believers, and divine mysteries so high that hardly anyone can claim to know much about them. The vital connecting link between them, that of metaphysical religion, is all but lost...”...
by Robert Bolton
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2005
What is the basis and purpose of esoteric religion, and what is the self? Self and Spirit answers these questions in depth and in a way true to the spirit of traditional wisdom. This book illuminates from a new angle the Non-Dualistic conceptions that have become influential through the work of many...
The Order Of The Ages
World History in the Light of a Universal Cosmogony
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
THE laws which relate the modern world to earlier ages, and the position of our own era in a universal time-cycle, are explained in this book in a way which reveals the essential nature of time. It is shown that time imposes patterns of its own on the order of events, which reveal themselves by numerical...
Legends Of The End
Prophecies of the End Times, Antichrist, Apocalypse, & Messiah from Eight Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2005
Ever since the advent of nuclear weapons, biological warfare and irreversible degradation of the environment, we have all been facing the End of Days. Whether the world ends tomorrow or lasts for centuries, this is the ‘climate’ of our times. We are all more or less familiar with the Christian apocalypse—but...
by Rodney Blackhirst
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Of all the traditional sciences it is alchemy—based as it is in metallurgy—that is directly concerned with the coming of the industrial order. In alchemical terms, modern man lives in the Ferric Age and his state is best analogized to the properties of the metal iron: hard, cold, unbending, but quick...
Cracks In The Great Wall
UFOs and Traditional Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
Can we really know what UFO's are? The answer is Yes-but only if we study them armed with a kind of knowledge that explains the true and complete structure of the universe-spiritual, psychic, and material-a knowledge that only traditional metaphysics can provide. Science can supply one piece of the puzzle,...
The Islamic Tradition
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2005
A LEADING EXPONENT of Muslim thought focuses on the inner spiritual meaning of the religion of Islam and its ramifications for the modern world, namely, the problems the tradition faces in our contemporary world, including Islam’s inner tensions between traditionalists and those who want to bring change—conservatives...
What Do The Religions Say About Each Other?
Christian Attitudes Towards Islam Islamic Attitudes Towards Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
As a result of Islamic terrorism many people—including some in high places—have quickly come to the conclusion that Islam is a religion of violence and, as such, is the sworn enemy of Christianity and the Western way of life. This may be understandable, but the matter is not quite so simple. This...
Pure
Modernity, Philosophy, and the One
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
Pure: Modernity, Philosophy, and the One is an experimental work of philosophy in which the author aspires to think his way back to a "premodern" worldview derived from the philosophical tradition of Platonism. To this end he attempts to identify and elucidate the fundamental intellectual assumptions...
Invincible Wisdom
Quotations from the Scriptures, Saints, and Sages of All Times and Places
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
The guiding idea of this book has been to gather together sayings, maxims, and aphorisms, which, in some respect or other are of profound and permanent spiritual value. Moreover, the net has been cast wide, with the result that the selected items are extremely variegated; for, in the present age, protective...
by Harry Oldmeadow
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2008
The unprecedented collision of religions in the contemporary world creates both dangerous antagonism and new possibilities for spiritual growth and renewal. Such possibilities can only be realized through a reaffirmation of the perennial philosophy, which celebrates religious diversity while recognizing...
Who Is The Earth?
How To See God in the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Ever since the advent of "earth-based spiritualities" in our time, the call to realize the Divine Immanence, to see God in the forms of the natural world and the particular events of our lives, has become paramount. And yet, without a corresponding sense of the Divine Transcendence, we find ourselves...
Near And Distant Horizons
In Search of the Primary Sources of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Is there a wellspring of knowledge that can neutralize the duality of the world by offering a unified vision of the Whole? With originality and insight, the author makes a compelling case for the need to identify the sources of a traditional knowledge that still has the power to enrich people’s lives...