Prophet for a Dark Age: A Companion to the Works of Rene Guenon - Softcover

Rooth, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845192516 ISBN 13: 9781845192518

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Rene Guenon is a major figure for anyone who recognises a need to rediscover the spiritual roots from which Western society has become so comprehensively alienated. Immersing himself in the search for spiritual truth, he chose Islam as the vehicle for his spiritual life. Settling in Egypt, he clarified and deepened our understanding of the teachings of traditional metaphysics, his central message being that there is at the source of all humanity's traditions a 'Primordial Tradition' -- a Universal Metaphysics which sets out the principles that underlie this Tradition. The truths it embodies are universal and unchanging, and form part of a unified body of higher knowledge which transcends the multiplicity of religious dogmas and philosophical systems that abound in Western society. He wrote about the need to transcend the formal and emotional aspect of religion in order to prepare ourselves for an understanding of 'pure metaphysics'. He explained how traditional societies achieved this, exploring the symbols used, in order to help individuals forward to levels of understanding which are otherwise inaccessible to minds blinkered by the limitations of the currently prevailing Western approach to existence and its meaning.

About this title

About the Author

Graham Rooth is a retired Consultant Psychiatrist with a longstanding interest in languages, and the relationship between Spirituality and the Humanistic Therapies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845192516
• ISBN 13: 9781845192518
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 343