Guénon’s The Great Triad was the last book to appear during his lifetime. Even for his regular readers, this book contained largely new material, as did his The Metaphysical Principles of the Infinitesimal Calculus, published the same year. The author here refers especially to the Chinese tradition, principally in its Taoist form (though touching on Confucianism as well), in which the ‘Great Triad’ is defined as Heaven-Man-Earth. It is as much a cosmological as a metaphysical doctrine that is implied in this ternary of the ‘three worlds’. In spite of its Taoist title, however, the work draws heavily on Hermetic teachings, Hindu and Buddhist metaphysics, and Masonic symbolism, not to mention doctrines from Judaism, Christianity. and Islam. It is also Guenon’s most comprehensive exposition of the science of Alchemy.

Table of Contents

1 Ternary and Trinity
2 Different Types of Ternary
3 Heaven and Earth
4 Yin and Yang
5 The Double Spiral
6 Solve et Coagula
7 Questions of Orientation
8 Celestial and Terrestrial Numbers
9 The Son of Heaven & Earth
10 Man and the Three Worlds
11 Spiritus, Anima, Corpus
12 Sulphur, Mercury, Salt
13 The Being and its Environment
14 The Mediator
15 Between the Square and the Compasses
16 The Ming T’ang
17 Wang: The King-Pontiff
18 True Man and Transcendent Man
19 Deus, Homo, Natura
20 Distortions in Modern Philosophy
21 Providence, Will, Destiny
22 Triple Time
23 The Cosmic Wheel
24 The Triatna
25 The City of Willows
26 The Middle Way

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