Bies introduces readers to metaphysical, esoteric, and spiritual teachings from diverse scared sources. His words are rooted in the inechaustible ground of the Perennial Philosophy, the language of the Essential to which this book invites us to return.

About the Author

Jean Bi�s was born in Bordeaux, France, in 1933. He studied Classics at the University of Algiers and later at the Sorbonne. He was first influenced by the East during his childhood and adolescence spent in Algeria. The discovery of Ren� Gu�non s writings in 1951 was to become a determining influence by revealing to him the existence of initiatory teachings. He later met several representatives of traditional wisdom including the Sufi sheikh Adda Bentoun�s in 1952, Swami Siddheswarananda in 1954 and 1956, and Frithjof Schuon in 1967, 1968, and 1971. In 1973, he defended his doctoral dissertation in which he studied the relationship between French literature and Hindu thinking (Litt�rature fran�aise et Pens�e Hindoue). This work was awarded the Prix d Asie by the Acad�mie des Sciences d Outre-mer. The same year, he traveled extensively throughout India. During his career as a teacher of French at the High School in Nay and as a Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Pau, he also gave several conferences in France and in Switzerland, Belgium, and Venezuela. He wrote numerous articles which appeared in a range of reviews, while at the same time obstinately pursuing his work as a writer. He retired in 1993 in order to devote his time entirely to his works. In 1997, he was named Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. Jean Bi�s works are divided into theoretical essays: presentations of traditional teachings, travel and personal accounts, testimonies, and collections of poetry some 10,000 pages of published and unpublished texts. Situated at the confluence of East and West, and in the constant light of the philosophia perennis at an especially critical time of the Kali Yuga, his work offers spiritual "keys" and suggestions for the urgent preparation of the future. Since 1962, he and his wife have lived in a country home, "Saint-Michella-Grange," at the foot of the Pyr�n�es.

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