Index

Abaris 125
Abel 99
Abraham 121, 133
Achilles 20, 127
Acropolis 56f.
Actis 70
Adam(ic) 15, 18, 34, 41, 68, 99, 181, 206, 290
Aditi 226
Aditya 74, 106, 126, 239
Adonis 20
Aegean 126, 131
Aeneas 144
Aeneid 139
Aesculapius 100
Africa 170, 264
Agamemnon 260
Agartha 63f.
Agni 123, 146, 152, 178, 181, 183, 186, 196, 222ff, 239f
Ahi 125
Ahriman 40
Aitareya Brahmana 205, 222
Alchemy 112, 134, 206, 227, 294
Alexander 127, 134
Alexandria 190
Am I My Brother's Keeper? 278
America 47, 52, 67, 171, 228, 284
Ammon 134
'The Ancient Iconography of the Heart of Jesus' 17
'Angel and Titan' 147
Angers 20
Anizan, F. 3, 13ff.
Anquetil-Duperron 27
Antichrist 51
The Antichrist (Personal, Future) 98
Antioch 190
Aperçus sur l'ésoterisme islamique et le Taoisme 187
Aperçus sur l'Initiation 13, 66, 104, 151, 225, 246, 257, 274, 279, 283, 285, 293, 295, 297, 304
Aphrodite 108
Apocalypse 20, 36, 101, 106, 115, 130, 132, 134, 203, 297, 302, 308f.
Apollo 69f, 108, 116, 125, 127, 131
Apollyon 132
Aquarius 70
Arab 79, 111, 134
'Les Arbres du Paradis' 290
Archéomètre 97
Architecture, Mysticism and Myth 270
Ariadne 270
Arion 108
Aristophanes 97
Aristotle 91, 284, 293, 300, 305
Arjuna 82, 147, 209
Armenian 127
'Armes avec motifs astrologiques et talismaniques' 274
Armorica 19
Arnold of Villeneuve 198
Art du Monde 186
Arthur 68
Asia 52, 105, 209
Assassins 60
Assyria(n) 47, 98, 222, 246, 248
Assyro-Babylonian 134
Asura 40, 205, 226f, 244
Atalanta 116ff
Atergatis 108
Atharva Veda 311
Athena 292
Athenaeus 116
Athens 185
'Atlantide et Hyberborée' 113f
Atlantis 55ff, 81, 97, 101, 113f, 116, 123, 177
Atlas 116
Atma-Bodha 307
Ātmā-Gitā 147
'Ātmā-yajna: Self-sacrifice' 205
Auriger 121
Autorité spiritual et pouvoir temporal 106, 113, 118
Avalon 69
Avatāra 73, 106, 113ff, 146, 152, 160, 178, 200, 234
Avestan 27
Avranches 133
Babylon 108, 134, 239
La Basilique pythagoricienne de la Porte Majeure 163
Bavaria 285
Belle-Epine 135
Benedictine 33
Benoist, Luc 26, 186
Berkeley 15
Le Bestiaire du Christ 16, 39f, 108, 283
Beth-el 121f, 199, 201, 211, 299
Bible 98f, 109, 151, 187, 220, 226, 229, 263, 291, 297
Boccacio 29
Borvo 132
The Book of Changes 272
The Book of the Dead 134
The Book of Songs 264
Bournouf, E 26
Brahmā 152
Brahma Sutras 147
Brahmanas 205
Brahmanism 233
Brahmin 71f, 111, 113, 130, 286
Britain 67, 199
Brittany 133, 135
Broceliande 116f
Buddha 177
Buddhi 7ff, 12
Buddhism 48, 126, 175, 181, 195, 206, 233
The Bugbear of Literacy 278
Burckhardt, Titus 149, 152
Byblos 211
Byzantine 244
Cabiri 123
Caesar 55, 124
Cain 99
Caledonia 116
Callot 296
Calvarium 181
Calydon 116f
Calypso 35
Cambodia 242
Campanella 35
Canaan 61
Cancer 94f, 97, 105, 108, 159, 163ff, 240f
Capricorn 94, 108f, 159, 163ff, 240ff, 245
Carbonarism 222
Carcopino, J. 163ff
Carmelite 53
Carnutes 55
Carolingian 48, 275
Carthusian 283
Caste, a Comparative Study 71
Les Castes 71, 190
Castor 96
Cathars 274
Catholic 4f, 11, 33, 61, 180, 212, 246
Caucasus 79
Celt 17f, 23, 26f, 47, 52, 55ff, 69, 105, 113ff, 122, 131f, 262
Chakravarti 180
Chaldea 47, 63, 81, 98, 101, 107, 116, 219
Le Champ fleuri 93
Chandogya Upanishad 150, 183, 298, 302
Chang 243
Charbonneau-Lassay, L. 16f, 20, 39f, 45, 48, 52, 56, 89, 91, 105f, 108, 195, 283
Chatillon-sur-Sèvres 56
Chemin, Nicholas du 93
China, Chinese 13, 81f, 100, 102, 161f, 176, 180, 186, 201, 203ff, 222, 242f, 264, 272
Chinon 48, 56
Chrétien de Troyes 2, 29f
'Le Chrisme et le coeur...' 275
Christ 17, 19ff, 45, 53f, 84, 89ff, 99, 101f, 106ff, 125, 128, 152, 188, 194, 196ff, 203ff, 218f, 244, 275, 289, 295f, 298, 301, 307
Christianity 3f, 17ff, 21f, 25ff, 37, 45, 53f, 57, 59, 65, 67, 99, 103, 105ff, 125, 128, 130, 140, 142, 160, 167, 171, 175f, 182, 184, 186ff, 191, 193, 195, 212, 218f, 227, 244, 246f, 275, 284, 294, 296, 304, 309
Christmas 90, 160, 167, 169, 240
Chronos 132
Chthonian 141
Chuang Tzu 298
Chu-ta-Kao 273
Cicero 92
Cimmerian 71
Clotho 127
Clovis 219
'Le Coeur du Monde dans la Kabbale' 288
Collegia Farbrorum 167f
Cologne 128
'Cologne ou Strasbourg?' 233
'Concerning the Barzakh' 149
Consider the Lilies 196
Constantine 51, 275f
Constantinople 190
Convivio 230
Coomaraswamy, A.K. 126, 130, 147, 155, 175, 177ff, 181f, 184, 190, 193f, 196, 205f, 220f, 223ff, 229, 231ff, 239ff, 244, 254, 260, 268, 270, 276, 278, 308, 310
Coomaraswamy, L. 260ff
Corinth 271
Corinthians 155, 199
Cornély 133
Corybantes 209
Courland 52
Cousin, J. 93
Coutances 19
Creel, H.G. 243, 248
Cretan 63, 126, 131, 139, 143
The Crisis of the Modern World 41
Critias 177
La Cuisine des Anges 26
Culdeen 27
'Le Culte de l'ours et du tigre...' 243
Cumae 139, 144
Cumean Gates 139, 271
Cybele 121f, 209ff
Cyclops 123, 143
Dagon 107
Dahomey 264
D'Alvèdre, St Yves 64, 114f
Dan 73
Dante 29f, 57f, 63, 65, 93, 140, 150, 221, 230, 232, 250, 286, 306
Darel, Th. 287
The Darker Side of Dawn 147
'Le Dauphin et le crustacé' 108
David 39, 60, 90
De Antro Nympharum 163
De Arte combinatoria 306
Dea Syra 108
De facie in orbe Lunae 132
Deipnosophistarum 116
Delos 132f
Delphi 122, 125, 132, 164
Deonna, W. 274f
Derceto 108
Descartes 13, 284, 293, 304
'Les deux nuits' 244
Deva 40, 94, 200, 204f, 226f, 240
De Veritate 293
Diana 90
Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique 249
'Le "Dieu lieur" et le symbolisme des nœds' 277
Diodorus 70
Dionysus 133f
Dioscuri 96, 209
Diti 226
D'Olivet, Fabre 115, 248
Les Dossiers H 63
Dragon 68
Druid(ism) 18, 29f, 55, 57, 67, 99, 101, 113f, 117f, 122, 124, 142
Druse 60
Dürer, Albrecht 268ff
Ea 108
Eckhart 152
'Eckstein' 188
Eden 18, 62
Edward I 199
Egypt(ian) 23, 35, 61f, 64, 70, 81f, 99ff, 108, 118, 134, 147ff, 196, 203, 218, 223
The Elements of Buddhist Iconography 126, 224
Eleusinian Mysteries 141
Eliade, Mircea 277
Elysium 242
The Emerald Table 161
Empyrean 80, 242
England 84, 199
Ephesians 188
Ephraim 73
Er 127
Erechtheion 56
L'Esoterisme de Dante 13, 41, 57, 104, 227, 230, 250
Esther 108
L'Estoile Internelle 195, 198
Ethiopia(n) 80f
Etruscan 73, 292
Etudes sur la Franc Maçonnerie et le Compagnonage 128, 233, 260, 310
Etudes sur l'Hindouisme 303
Europe(an) 36, 50, 52, 114, 170, 242
Eve 100
Exodus 199, 212, 223
Ezekiel 203
Far East(ern) 49, 52, 78, 95, 108, 127, 131, 146, 157, 161, 169, 176, 179, 185, 198, 202, 208, 219, 246, 248, 266f, 278, 291, 296, 301
Fedeli d'Amore 29, 58, 63, 65f, 82, 245, 267, 286
Fede Santa 66
Fiji 190
Finistère 56
Le Fleur d'or et le Taoisme sans Tao 31
Florance, E.C. 35
Fludd, Robert 197
Fo-hi 100
Fontevrault 21
France 27
Franciscan 16
Fraser, Sir J.G. 28
Freud 30
al-Futūhut al-Makkiyyah 35 Gabriel 62
Ganesha 93f
Ganga 233
Ganymede 70
Garuda 40, 243
Gaul, Gallic 52, 55, 124
Genesis 15f, 63, 99, 107, 121f, 179, 199, 235, 238, 263, 290f, 297
Genty, Patrice 123
Germany, German 105, 285
Ghibellines 211
Giants 123
Giblim 211
Gibraltar 170
Glastonbury 67ff
Goethe 264
Golden Age 103, 106
The Golden Bough 28
Golgotha 181
Gospel 22, 40, 92, 102, 107, 161, 184, 202f, 219, 231, 285, 294, 298f
Gould, R.F. 124
Grail 17ff, 54, 62ff, 67f, 70, 99, 122, 124, 127, 149, 177, 194f, 198, 210f, 219, 296
Great Triad 185, 219
The Great Triad 9, 45, 78, 82, 85, 93, 127, 131, 147, 157, 176, 180, 186, 201f, 208f, 245f, 248f, 255, 262f, 265, 267, 294ff
Greco-Latin 164
Greece, Greek(s) 20, 24, 52, 96, 99, 105, 108, 114, 116, 127, 131ff, 144, 163f, 166, 226, 263f, 271
Guide to Glastonbury's Temple of the Stars 67
Guyot 53
Hamsa 70f
Han 242
'The Head of the Monster in Khmer and Far Eastern Decoration' 243
Hebrew, Hebraic 34, 36, 60, 73ff, 124, 133, 153, 212f, 223, 257
Hebrews 92
Hekathriel 100
Helen 69
Heliopolis 35, 70
Hellenic 126
Henze, Carl 243
Heptaktis 236
Heracum 271
Hercules 93, 168, 170f
Hermes, Hermetic 21f, 24, 63, 75, 90, 99, 127f, 153f, 191, 197, 213, 219, 229, 246, 249, 272, 291, 306
The High History of the Holy Grail 67
Hinduism 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 24, 40, 47, 50, 57, 70, 74, 91, 93ff, 106ff, 111ff, 128, 130, 146, 152, 160, 162, 166f, 177, 179, 185, 197, 202f, 205f, 209, 214, 221, 226f, 232f, 243, 245, 251, 253, 259, 286, 290, 298ff, 305f, 308
Hiram 205
Hocart. A.M. 71, 73, 190
Homer 34f, 69, 164ff, 264
Horus 147, 203, 218
Huet 133
Hymn to the Sun 283
Hyperborean 34f, 68ff, 105, 108, 113f, 123, 125, 131
Ibn Khaldūn 37
Iliad 264
India 47, 81, 100f, 105, 107f, 112, 123, 130, 149, 242, 253, 278, 298
Indians 184, 228
Indra 127, 130
Initiation et réalisation spirituelle 104, 244, 253
Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines 13
'The Inverted Tree' 226
Ireland 199
Iris 263
Iron Age 103
Isaiah 297
Islam 12, 34, 37, 62, 109, 112f, 128ff, 160, 162f, 175, 178f, 181, 183, 203ff, 239, 243, 251, 257, 286, 289, 295, 297
Israfil 204
Ithaca 165
Jackson Knight, W.F. 139f, 142f, 145, 271
Jacob 40, 121f, 199, 229, 240
Jaimaniya Upanishad 245
Jana 90, 241
Janus 89ff, 106, 128, 166ff, 234, 241, 291
Japan 130
Jataka 231
Java 242
Jehovah 60
Jeremiah 297
Jerusalem 45, 58, 61, 74, 102, 190, 199, 226f, 250, 270, 297, 302, 308f, 311
Jews 59, 257
Jibril 204
Jinn 243
Job 101
Jonah 109ff
'La jonction des extrêmes' 253
Joseph the Patriarch 199
Joseph of Aramethea 17, 54, 199, 296
Josephus 35, 70
Judah 73
Judaic 61, 205
Judeo-Christian 65, 92, 190, 195f
Julian 236
Jung C.J. 31f
Jupiter 123, 274
Ka'bah 80, 121, 211
Kabbalah, 34f, 37f, 75, 85, 91, 95, 100, 109f, 150, 206f, 219, 221, 223, 229, 233f, 246, 256ff, 288, 297, 306
Kaldes 116
Kala 243ff
Kali-yuga 103, 115
Kalki-avatāra 106, 130
Kalpa 113
Kama-deva 245
Karneios 131ff
Katha-Sarit-Sagara 310
Katha Upanishad 146f, 152, 220
Kemi 81
Keraton 133
Keraunos 133
Kermania 56
Kether 91, 133
Ketu 111
Kings 193
Kneph 99
Knight 113, 117f
Knights of the Round Table 19
Knights Templars 59, 64ff, 208, 286
Krishna 82, 147, 209
Kronos 131ff
Kshatriya 65, 71ff, 98, 113, 115f, 130, 286
Kuhnrath 28
Kundalini 153
'Kundalini-Yoga' 305
Kwan-yin 108
Kyknos 70
Lamaism 123
La Langue hébraïque restituée 248
Lao-tzu 273
Latin(s) 94, 166, 176, 292
Lau, D.C. 273
Le Cour, Paul 55ff
Leda 96
Legge, J. 273
Leibniz 123, 306
Leonardo da Vinci 268ff Lepage, Marius 83
Lethaby, W.R. 270
Levi, Levite 73
Leviathan 111
Libra 68
Lin Yutang 273
Lionnet, Jacques 273
Lithuania 52
Little Bear 68
Logres 69
Loir-et-Cher 55
Lombard 106
Longinus 20, 54
The Lord of the World 20f, 35, 45, 50, 53, 58, 60, 70, 92, 94, 97, 99f, 107, 110, 112ff, 117, 122, 151, 153, 158, 198f, 201, 226f, 246, 258, 288, 295ff, 299, 302
Loth, M.J. 56
Loudun 53
Louvre 93
Luchon 89f
Lucifer 18, 198, 250, 298
Lug 69
Luther 22
Mabinogion 262
Macarthy 117
Maçonnerie occulte 267
'Maçons et Charpentiers' 310
Macrobius 284
Mahā-yuga 58, 69, 106f, 109f, 113, 123, 132
Mahdi 79
Maitri Upanishad 220, 223
Makara 108, 242, 245
Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta 17, 39, 50, 53, 95, 107, 145, 152f, 155, 159, 168, 170, 181, 220, 293f, 296ff, 302, 308, 311
Mandaka Upanishad 147
Manicheism 208
Manu 63, 106, 109
Manrantara 58
'Le Marbre astronomique de Saint-Denis d'Orques' 283
Marchal, K. 243f
Marie des Vallées 19
Mary, the Blessed Virgin 23, 154
Masonry, Masonic 38, 56, 67, 82ff, 115, 124, 126, 141, 145, 157, 160, 168, 170f, 176f, 189, 192f, 195, 197, 200, 204ff, 211ff, 227, 230, 260, 265ff, 274, 276, 294
Massenie du Saint-Graal 66
Matsya-avatāra 106f, 109, 111
Mauleon 56
Mayence 124
Mazdean 21
Mecca 121, 211
Melchizedek 66, 92
Mercury 134
Merovingian 48, 275
Meru 48, 57
Meso-American 40
Messiah 297
Metatron 100, 204, 246, 255, 258
Meunier, Mario 61, 283
Mexico 40
Middle Ages 4, 16, 20, 29, 39, 47, 52f, 56, 62, 102, 104, 128, 161, 168, 181, 183f, 191, 194, 230, 242, 255, 286, 288, 295
Mide 117
Mikaël 100, 258
Mikāl 204
Minerva 292
Ming-tang 186, 204, 267, 310
Minos 63
Mioelner 123
Mirror of the Intellect 149, 152
Mithraic 230
Moggridge, E.H. 98
Monadologie 123
Mongolia 121
'Monothéisme et Angélologie' 205
Mont Saint-Michel 69
Moses 133
Mount Alborg 222
Mount Ida 209
Mrityu 226, 232, 235, 244f
Mudevi 10I
Muhyi d-Din ibn al-'Arabi 35f
The Multiple States of Being 11
Mycenian 105
Mysteries 92, 154, 157f, 162, 176, 189, 205f, 213, 227, 230, 234, 236, 251, 270

Nāga 40
Nara-Narayana 147
Nativity 140
Nephilim 98
Nicodemus 19
Nimrod 98f
Nineveh 98
Nirvana 235
Niu-Kova 100
Noah 97, 109f
Nordic 105
'Note sur l'angélologie de l'alphabet arabe' 187
Notre Dame 100
Notre Dame de l'Epine 135
Numa 121
Numenius 163ff
Nymphs 165

Oannès 107f
Odyssey 165
Ogygia 35, 132
Omphalos 121f, 132, 151, 153, 178, 199
On 35, 70
On the Dream of Scipio 284
On the Face that Appears in the Orb of the Moon 284
Ophites 99
Ops 209
Order of the Red Cross of Rome and of Constantine 276
Ormuzd 40

Ortygia 34f, 69
Osiris 99, 205
Ossendowski 63, 121
Othello 232
Ouranos 114
Ourga 121, 198

Palestine 59f
Pallis, Marco 63, 244
Palm Sunday 124
Panofsky, Erwin 194f
La Parabole du Monde 250
Paradise Found, the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole 132
Parashu-Rāma 115, 123
Parthenon 56
Pascal 285
Payne G.G. 271
Peaks and Lamas 244
Parechore 271
'The Perilous Bridge of Welfare' 260
Pernéty, A.J. 249
Perry, Whitall N. 63
Persia(n) 70, 105
Pharisees 298
Philo 309
Phoenician 69f, 100, 211
Phoenix 70
Phrygia 209
Pisces 109
Plato, Platonic 10f, 49, 57, 96, 127, 155, 163, 177, 196, 222, 310f
Pleiads 116
Plutarch 61, 132, 284
Pole Star 82, 85
Pollux 96
Pont-l'Abbé 56
Porphyry 163ff
Poseidon 57, 177
Posterior Analytics 293
Poucel, V. 250
Prajapati 205
Prakriti 7f, 54f, 97, 126, 214 Prichard, 83, 147
Les Principes au Calcul infinitesimal
185, 254, 258, 306
Proclus 163ff, 283f
The Prophet (Mohammad) 62, 129, 203
Psalms 187
Purana 106
Purusha 7, 54f, 97, 126, 204ff, 308ff
Pythagoras, Pythagorean 37, 56, 74f, 77, 84, 93, 125, 132, 162ff, 268, 306
Python 99, 125

Qaf 70, 79
Quetzalcohuatl 40
Qur'an 37, 39f, 187, 223, 255
Qutb 79f

Rabelais 29
Rama-Chandra 115
Rasa il Ikhwān aş-Şafa 75
Ravenna 245
Reformation 67
The Reign of Quantity 12, 30, 41, 81, 101, 176, 200, 208, 211, 213
Renaissance 93, 186
Republic 127, 163, 310
Rhea 132, 209
Rheims 167, 219
Rig Veda 204f, 260
Rishi 68, 107, 115
Robert de Borron 23, 29f
Roche-en-Cloué 56
Roman 73, 89ff, 103, 128, 161, 167, 169, 178, 180, 209
Rome 56, 121, 167, 190
Rose-Cross, Rosicrucian 22, 35, 66, 185, 270, 306
Round Table 19, 68
Ruben 73
ar-Ruh 204, 255

'Le Sacrifice' 112
St Augustine 92
St Bernard 154
St Bonaventura 16
St Corneille 133
St Denis d'Orques 16, 283, 294, 296
St Hildegard 187
St John 15, 91, 107, 167ff, 219, 225, 285f, 294, 301
St John the Baptist 168ff
St John Eudes 19
St Luke 187, 204, 298f, 301
St Mark 187, 298f
St Matthew 128, 187, 204, 298ff
St Mexme of Chinon 48
St Nicholas 24
St Paul 5, 92, 155, 170, 188, 199, 291
St Rémy 167
St Thomas Aquinas 3, 11, 14, 33, 255, 259, 292
St-Omer 270
Die Sakralbronzan und ihre Bedeutung in der frühchinesichen Kulturen 244
Salem 66
Salian 121
Samuel 190
Sankaracharya 307
San Paolo 56
Saraswati 233
Sarthe 16
Satan 21, 99
Satapatha Brahmana 130, 209
Saturn 103, 131ff
Saturnalia 103
Satyarrata 106, 109f
Satya-Yuga 106, 132, 148
Sāyana 205
Scandinavia(n) 105, 263f
Schuon, Frithjof 8, 112
Scivias 187
Scotland, Scottish 116f, 157
Scythian 126
The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry 197, 257
Semite 121
Sepher Ietsirah 37, 60, 68, 117
Sephiroth(ic) 91, 133, 199, 221, 229, 233f
Septentrion 117
Septuagint 190
Set 99, 101
Seth 18, 98ff
Shaddai, 133, 258
Shakti 101, 108, 114, 149, 214, 233f
Shamanist 228
Shekinah 60, 121, 234, 297
Shinje 232, 244
Shinto 130, 141
Shiva 18, 91, 126, 152, 167
Shūdra 71, 73, 81
Sicily 70
Siegfried 39
Solomon 39, 60, 63, 65, 75, 84, 160, 178, 193, 195, 213, 219, 237f
Soma 21, 64
'Some Pali Words' 231, 233
Somerset 67, 69
Sorath 100
Speculum 188
Speculum Humance Salvationis 194
Spirituality and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government 310
'Spiritual Paternity and the Puppet Complex' 278, 310
Strasbourg 128
Stretton, C. 85
Studies in Early Chinese Culture 248
Studies in Hinduism 303
Suèvres 55
Summa Theologica 3, 14, 292
Surat an-Nur 223
Svētāsvatara Upanishad 147
Sybil 139
The Symbolism of the Cross 13, 39f, 45, 49f, 54, 60, 74, 97, 100, 125ff, 129, 201, 220ff, 231, 246, 265, 277, 288f, 297f, 301f, 306, 311
Symposium 96
Syria 34, 41, 68ff, 108, 114, 132
Tai-i 82, 157
Taittiriya Samhita 205
Taoism, Taoist 92, 176, 227, 298, 300
Tao-te-King 76, 169, 236, 273
Tarot 24, 121, 126, 149, 247, 274
Temple of Jerusalem 199, 213, 270, 288
La Théodicée de la Kabbale 34
'La Théorie hindoue des cinq éléments' 107, 303, 306
Thor 123f
Thule 69, 132
Tibet(an) 123f, 160, 203
Tien-ti-Houei 204
Titan(s) 123, 205, 209
'Le Tombeau d'Hermes' 157
Tory, G. 93
Traditional Art and Symbolism 220
'Trois études celtiques' 131
Troy 209
Tuatha de Danann 199
Tula 34, 68f, 113f
Typhon(ian) 99, 111
Ursa Major 115, 117, 125, 130
Ursa Minor 117
Uther Pendragon 68, 117
Vaishvānara 181
Vaisya 71, 73
Vaivasvata 106, 109
Vâlsan, Michel 97, 104
Vanaspati 222, 224
Varuna 114, 232, 243ff
Vatan 97
Vatican 61, 91, 180, 246
Vayu 186, 239
Veda, Vedic 14, 21, 37, 40, 64, 96, 107, 113, 125, 130, 160, 164, 182, 204ff, 226, 228, 234, 241f, 244
Verbum, Lux et Vita' 225
Vers l'Unité 287
Villefranche-sur-Cher 55
Virgil 140
'The Virgin Suckling St Bernard' 154
Vishnu 106ff, 113f, 152, 177
Vishvakarma 200, 205f
Vita Nuova 306
Vritra 125, 130, 244
Vulcan 123
Vulgate 190
Vulliand, Paul 60f
Waite A.E. 24ff, 197f
Waley, Arthur 264, 272
Warrain F. 34
Warren W.F. 132
Watan 97
Watkins J.M. 67
Watson I.K. 303
Westminster Abbey 199
What Is Civilisation? 184, 308
Yah' 85
Yaksha 123, 243
Yama 232, 244f
Yin-Yang 95f, 100, 161, 169, 208, 248, 296
Zagreus 205
Zalmoxis 125, 239, 243
Zechariah 297
Zeus 70, 123, 134, 264, 292
Zion 61
Zodiac 48, 68ff, 93, 97, 106, 108, 158ff, 169, 176, 245, 267
Zohar 222, 224f
Zoroastrian 221, 225 THIS LONG AWAITED VOLUME is presented here in English for the first time; and since it constitutes one of Guénon's greatest works, its publication must be counted as one of the great literary events of this century. To glance at the chapter headings is to be impressed by the wealth and variety of the contents—The Science of Letters; Symbolic Weapons; The Wild Boar & the Bear; The Language of the Birds; The Bridge and the Rainbow—are but a few of the 76 chapters. A striking aspect of the book is that it gives a new significance to so many of the objects, natural and man-made, with which we are inescapably surrounded in our daily life. Sensitive readers will be enriched by the immense perspective which is here offered them, both in time and space; and they will see the book above all as an introduction to the spiritual life, an introduction which fascinates and compels. For some souls it will open doors which no other key could unlock.

> 'René Guénon is without doubt one of the colossal figures of this century whose fame only increases with the passing of days. In this work, probably the most significant in a modern Western language, concerning symbolism, Guénon deals with the metaphysical and cosmological meaning of symbols drawn from traditions as far apart as the Greek and the Buddhist, the Druid and the Islamic. This extensive work has been a real labour of love for both the translator, who has spent a life-time in the study of Guénon's work, and the editor (Martin Lings), himself one of the foremost traditional authors and a master of English prose. This is a major addition to the English corpus of Guénon's works.'

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RENÉ GUÉNON (1886-1951) is without doubt one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Frithjof Schuon has said of him that he had 'the central function of restoring the great principles of traditonal metaphysics to Western awareness', and he added that Guénon 'gave proof of a universality of understanding that for centuries had no parallel in the Western world'. Many of Guénon's books have appeared in English, including Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines, Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta, The Crisis of the Modern World (all 1945), The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times (1953), The Symbolism of the Cross (1958), and The Multiple States of Being (1984). A translation of The Great Triad, first published in French in 1946 and the last of the author's books to appear in his lifetime, was published by Quinta Essentia in 1991.