A collection of essays by Joseph Epes Brown, Titus Burckhardt, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, Gai Eaton, Isaline B. Horner, Toshiko Izutsu, Martin Lings, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Lord Northbourne, Marco Pallis, Whitall N. Perry, Leo Schaya, Frithjof Shuon, Philip Sherrard, William Stoddart, Elemire Zolla. Their subjects range over the religious doctrines of East and West and the societies which derived from them, including especially their sacred art and their sciences. In addition, and no less importantly, they demonstrate that the whole of that view of the world and of the nature of things common to all religions is, for mankind, the normal view-properly referred to as the traditional point of view-and that this view is absolutely opposed to and cannot be reconciled with the fundamentally profane beliefs and ideals which have dominated European thought since the Renaissance, resulting in the destruction of Western Christianity.

While pointing out that the nations of the West in their 'proselytizing fury' are still spreading these anti-traditional ideas throughout the rest of the world-now more aggressively than ever before with irreparable consequences for the spiritual lives of other peoples-this book makes a powerful plea for the rejection both of materialism and a science and technology based on purely rationalistic considerations the arbiters of our values, and for the restoration, before it is too late, of the religious dimensions as the measure of all things. It calls upon individuals to resist the false assumptions of the modern age and choose their own destiny.

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