Sophia Perennis, 2001. Examines the underlying currents of our times. Meaning of our lives is measured in output, net worth and accumulation of transient experiences, a state described in the Hindu doctrine of the Kali-Yuga, the Iron Age and authentic spirituality is replaced with man-made counterfeits; 384 pages. More
Boston: Weiser, 2005. The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance recounts the almost untold story of how the rediscovery of the pagan, mythological imagination during the Renaissance brought a profound transformation to European culture. This highly illustrated book, available for the first time in paperback, shows that the pagan imagination existed... More
New York: Julian Press, 1974. First edition. 171 pages. More
New York: Dial, 1936. 303 pages. More
Ghent: Sophia Perennis, 1995. Translated by Martin Lings; 257 pages. More
Ghent: Sophia Perennis, 2001. Translated by Henry D. Fohr; Edited by Samuel D. Fohr; 162 pages. More
Ghent: Sophia Perennis, 2001. Translated by Marco Pallis; 257 pages. More
Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2004. 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 foils enemies... More
North Yorkshire: Coombe Springs Press, 1983. Revised translation by Anthony Cheke and Anthony Blake; 70 pages. More
Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2004. Guénon agrees with Plato that mathematics can furnish symbols for metaphysics. But it cannot fulfill this function if metaphysical principles in themselves are not understood - which they clearly are not by the vast majority of modern mathematicians and scientists. Guénon sees Leibnitz, discoverer of the... More
Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2004. To spare readers extended research into obscure back issues of French journals long out of print, Miscellanea gathers together for Anglophone readers various articles by René Guénon, and by ‘Palingenius’, his pseudonym during the time of La Gnose, a journal he founded in 1909. These articles... More
Ghent: Sophia Perennis, 2001. 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 both of the conditions of initiation and of the characteristics of organizations... More
Ghent: Sophia Perennis, 2001. 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 both of the conditions of initiation and of the characteristics of organizations... More
Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2004. 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 a series... More
Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, 2004. This book opens with the key article ‘The Doctrine of Cosmic Cycles’, followed by two pieces on Atlantis and Hyperborea. Two sections follow, concerned respectively with the Hebrew Tradition and the Egyptian Tradition. The former comprises five articles concerned primarily with the Kabbalah and the Science... More
Appeal to reason, N.D., c. 1925. People's Pocket Series No. 51; 59 pages. More
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1944. First edition. 142 pages. More
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Soc. 1946. Second edition. 269 pages. More
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1971. Sixth edition, Revised and Enlarged. 198 pages. More
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Soc. 1955. First edition. More
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1946. First edition. Illustrated by K. Alexander; 184 pages. More
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Soc. 1947. First edition. Subscriber's Edition; 253 pages. More
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 2010. Two audio CDs, 97 minutes playing time, recording of a 1964 lecture. More
New York: Crown, 1995. Photographs by Santha Faiia; 578 pages. More
Princeton University, 1970. Second impression. Name stampoed on page fore-edges; Bollingen Series LXXIX; Second printing with corrections; 244 pages. More