Miscellanea
Guenon, Rene; Fohr, Henry D. (TRN); Bethell, Cecil (TRN); Schiff, Hubert (TRN); Moore, Patrick (TRN)
Language: English
Published by Sophia Perennis, 2004
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- Title
- Miscellanea
- Author
- Guenon, Rene; Fohr, Henry D. (TRN); Bethell, Cecil (TRN); Schiff, Hubert (TRN); Moore, Patrick (TRN)
- Publisher
- Sophia Perennis
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0900588551
- ISBN 13
- 9780900588556
What is here presented as a miscellany of essays would in the case of most other writers on metaphysical subjects be considered a major work, both in breadth and depth. Some claim that Guénon’s views never “developed,” that his knowledge of metaphysics was innate—as primordial and unchangeable as truth itself. Though clearly an exaggeration (for example, A.K. Coomaraswamy and Marco Pallis led Guénon to considerably revise his views Buddhism), there is still a remarkable degree of truth to this claim. Information must be acquired, and in the process erroneous notions will be corrected; yet the capacity for intellective insight is not an acquisition, but a gift; it is developed not by adding something but by removing a veil. Some of the essays collected in this text could be considered Guénon’s “juvenalia,” yet the unerring instinct for metaphysical truth is already there, fully formed, along with the first stirrings of the author’s lifelong preoccupation with initiatic spirituality, the cosmological sciences, and the errors of modernity; there is no real incompatibility of outlook here between the Guénon of 1909 and the Guénon of 1950. Far from being a mere collection of fugitive writings, Miscellanea is an important work in its own right, worthy of its own unique place in the Guénonian corpus.
“Guénon established the language of sacred metaphysics with a rigor, breadth, and intrinsic certainty that compel recognition as a standard of comparison for the twentieth century.” —Jean Borella
“Guénon gave proof of a universality of understanding that for centuries had had no parallel in the Western world.” —Frithjof Schuon
“It was Guénon who taught me to seek and love the truth above all else, and to be unsatisfied with anything else.” —Fr Seraphim Rose
“Encountering Guénon’s work is akin to being struck by lightning: a dazzling initiation into a hitherto unknown way of seeing reality that reclaims the original integrity of the human condition.” —Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
“Guénon’s mixture of arcane learning, metaphysics, and scathing cultural commentary is a continent in itself, untouched by the polluted tides of modernity.” —Jocelyn Godwin
“Guénon was an unsurpassed master of the science of symbolism.” —Martin Lings
“Guénon reaffirmed the values that constitute the only sound basis for living a life with dignity and purpose, or forming of a civilization worthy of the name.” —Philip Sherrard
“No modern European writer was more significant than René Guénon, who expounded the universal metaphysical tradition that is the indispensable basis for any civilization deserving to be so called.” —A. K. Coomaraswamy
“Guénon’s works are such potent metaphysical attacks on the downward drift of Western civilization as to make all other contemporary critiques seem half-hearted by comparison.” —Jacob Needleman
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