The Sword of Gnosis: Metaphysics, Cosmology, Tradition, Symbolism

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140037683
• ISBN13: 9780140037685
• Release Date: May 1974
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 5.0"

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Essays on the Effect of Technology on Tradition and Culture

From back cover: "The central theme of this collection of essays is modern man's crisis of the soul - a crisis brought on by our rejection of tradition in favor of technological advancement. Tradition is understood here, not as dry ritual or fossilized belief, but as the transmission without distortion of the universal truths that lie at the heart of all religions. By referring back to primordial tradition, the authors seek to provide a sword with which to cut away the illusions of the present age." **** Contents Include: * Foreword - Jacob Needleman PRIMORDIAL TRUTH * 'No Activity Without Truth' - Frithjof Schuon * Oriental Metaphysics - Rene Guenon * The Catholic Church in Crisis - Marco Pallis * The Veil of the Temple - Marco Pallis * The Spiritual Function of Civilization - Abu Bakr Siraj Ad-Din * Signs of the Times - Martin Lings * Cosmology and Modern Science - Titus Burckhardt * Discovering the Interior Life - Marco Pallis * Remarks on the Enigma of the Koan - Frithjof Schuon * Who Is the Man? - Seyyed Hossein Nasr * The Seven Deadly Sins in the Light of the Symbolism of Number - Martin Lings * Is There a Problem of Evil? - Marco Pallis * Living One's Karma - Pallis * Is there Room for 'Grace' in Buddhism - Pallis SYMBOLIC TRUTH * The Language of the Birds - Rene Guenon * Perennial Values in Islamic Art - Titus Burckhardt * Arab or Islamic Art? - Burckhardt * The Influence of Sufism on Traditional Persian Music - Seyyed Hossein Nasr * On the Margin of Liturgical Improvisations - Schuon * Keys to the Bible - Schuon * The Meaning of the Temple - Leo Schaya * Rites and Symbols - Guenon * Hermes - Guenon * The Sword of the Spirit - D.M. Deed * Old Lithuanian Songs - Martin Lings THE HUMAN MARGIN * Understanding and Believing - Schuon * The Human Margin - Schuon