This work contains a critical analysis from the traditional point of view of a number of currents and issues permeating the modem world and questions posed by modernism. Whitall N. Perry sheds light, drawn from the perennial wisdom of the great traditions, upon such contentious and difficult problems as reincarnation and the true significance of astrology as well as provides an evaluation in the light of that wisdom of much that passes for mysticism and spirituality today but which deals in reality with the lower reaches of the psychic realm. The reader interested in traditional teachings and the perennial philosophy is presented here with a map with which he can navigate through the maze of confusion and distortion that constitutes so much of the mental, psychological and even religious landscape of the present day world.

"Perry has an unequalled knowledge of the Scriptures and sacred literature of the several religious traditions of the world, and has a penetrating intelligence that does not stop short at pat answers. These essays are a delight for the intelligent and discerning reader."

Alvin Moore, Jr.

Whitall N. Perry has ties with authorities in Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Native American circles. In addition to his monumental A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom, he has contributed articles on metaphysics and cosmology to various journals. The author has been called the most authoritative traditionalist of American background', and 'a latter-day transcendentalist in the tradition of Thoreau and Emerson'. Travels in his youth through Europe, the Near, Middle, and Far East sparked an interest in Platonism and Vedanta which brought him under the personal influence of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.

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