Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2004. 57 pages. n this work, Guénon offers a masterful explication of the metaphysical order and its multiple manifestations-of the divine hierarchies and what has been called the Great Chain of Being-and in so doing demonstrates how jñana, intellective or intrinsic knowledge of what is, and of..... More
Paris: Villain et Belhomme, 1966. First edition. 283 Pages. More
Ghent: Sophia Perennis, 2001. Translated by Henry D. Fohr; Edited by Samuel D. Fohr; 162 pages. More
Ipswich: Golgonooza, 1974. Ownership signature of Jacob Needleman; Sewn booklet in stiff paper covers; Republished from "Journal of The Indian Society for Oriental Art" Vol VI 1938; 6 pages. More
Ghent: Sophia Perennis, 2001. Translated by Marco Pallis; 257 pages. More
Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2004. 77 pages. This remarkable book grew out of a conference headed by René Guénon, the sinologist René Grousset, and the neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain on questions raised by Ferdinand Ossendowski’s thrilling account in his Men, Beast and Gods of an escape through Central Asia, during which he..... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1958. 98 Pages. More
Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2004. 200 pages. Guénon published this fundamental doctrinal work in 1925. After asserting that the Vedanta represents the purest metaphysics in Hindu doctrine, he acknowledges the impossibility of ever expounding it exhaustively and states that the specific object of his study will be the nature and constitution..... More
Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2004. First edition. 98 pages. n this work, Guénon offers a masterful explication of the metaphysical order and its multiple manifestations-of the divine hierarchies and what has been called the Great Chain of Being-and in so doing demonstrates how jñana, intellective or intrinsic knowledge of what is..... More
Ghent: Sophia Perennis, 2001. Translated by Henry D. Fohr; Edited by Samuel D. Fohr; 303 pages. Presents initiation as the transmission, by the appropriate rites of a given tradition, of a 'spiritual influence' which presents the 'beginning' (initium) of the spiritual journey. It is unique in giving a comprehensive account..... More
Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2004. 284 pages. The Reign of Quantity gives a concise but comprehensive view of the present state of affairs in the world, as it appears from the point of view of the ‘ancient wisdom’, formerly common both to the East and to the West, but now almost..... More
Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2004. 87 pages. Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power is an analysis of cyclical manifestation, and more specifically of the relationship between royal and sacerdotal power. In accord with the Hindu doctrine of manvantaras and Plato’s depiction of historical degeneration in the Republic, Guénon views history here as..... More
Ghent: Sophia Perennis, 2001. Translated by Angus McNab; 149 pages. The cross is a symbol met with almost everywhere, and from the remotest times; it is therefore far from belonging exclusively to the Christian tradition which, at any rate in its outward and generally known aspect, seems to have lost..... More