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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.