QUINTA ESSENTIA

Fundamental Symbols: The Universal Language of Sacred Science

René Guénon

Quinta-Essentia (1995) ISBN 1870196112 paperback $27.50

 33 diagrams 339 pp. 252x156mm [only paperback available]

René Guénon is without a doubt one of the colossal figures of this century whose fame only increases with the passing of days. In this work, probably the most significant in a modern Western language concerning symbolism, Guénon deals with the metaphysical and cosmological meaning of symbols drawn from traditions as far apart as the Greek and the Buddhist, the Druid and the Islamic. This publication is one of the great literary events of this century. To glance at the chapter headings is to be impressed by the wealth and variety of the contents – The Science of Letters; Symbolic Weapons; The Wild Boar & the Bear; The Language of the Birds; The Bridge and the Rainbow are but a few of the 76 chapters. A striking aspect of the book is that it gives a new significance to so many of the objects, natural and man-made, with which we are inescapably surrounded in our daily lives.

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