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Stations of Wisdom.
by Frithjof Schuon
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 090058811X
- ISBN 13
- 9780900588112
- Seller
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Oregon City, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Pates Manor, Bedmont, Middlesex, England Perennial Books, 1961. Paperback First Edition (1961) Thus; unstated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows considerable rubbing to the panels; the pages have tanned slightly, due to aging. The binding leans ever so slightly off square, but remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of creases to the covers. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing only minor, unobtrusive flaws. Bright and Clean. Very close to 'As New'. This is however, a REMAINDER, showing an rather attractive rubber stamp at the bottom edge of the text block. NOT a Book-Club or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.5 x 0.65 inches). 157 pages. Translated from the French by G.E.H. Palmer. Language: English. Weight: 8.2 ounces. First Edition (1961) Thus; unstated. This is probably a later reprint, published by Perennial Books in standard series format, using the John Murray plates without removing Murray's name from the title and copyright pages; this series was run mostly in the 1980s. First published in French. Trade Paperback. Frithjof Schuon is best known as the foremost spokesman of the religio perennis and as a philosopher in the metaphysical current of Shankara and Plato. Over the past 50 years, he has written more than 20 books on metaphysical, spiritual and ethnic themes as well as having been a regular contributor to journals on comparative religion in both Europe and America. Schuon's writings have been consistently featured and reviewed in a wide range of scholarly and philosophical publications around the world, respected by both scholars and spiritual authorities. Schuon was born in 1907 in Basle, Switzerland, of German parents. As a youth, he went to Paris, where he studied for a few years before undertaking a number of trips to North Africa, the Near East and India in order to contact spiritual authorities and witness traditional cultures. Following World War II, he accepted an invitation to travel to the American West, where he lived for several months among the Plains Indians, in whom he has always had a deep interest. Having received his education in France, Schuon has written all his major works in French, which began to appear in English translation in 1953. Of his first book, The Transcendent Unity of Religions (London, Faber & Faber) T.S. Eliot wrote: "I have met with no more impressive work in the comparative study of Oriental and Occidental religion." The traditionalist or "perennialist" perspective began to be enunciated in the West at the beginning of the twentieth century by the French philosopher Rene Guenon and by the Orientalist and Harvard professor Ananda Coomaraswamy. Fundamentally, this doctrine is the Sanatana Dharma--the "eternal religion"--of Hindu Vedantists. It was formulated in the West, in particular, by Plato, by Meister Eckhart in the Christian world, and is also to be found in Islam with Sufism. Every religion has, besides its literal meaning, an esoteric dimension, which is essential, primordial and universal. This intellectual universality is one of the hallmarks of Schuon's works, and it gives rise to many fascinating insights into not only the various spiritual traditions, but also history, science and art. The dominant theme or principle of Schuon's writings was foreshadowed in his early encounter with a Black marabout who had accompanied some members of his Senegalese village to Switzerland in order to demonstrate their culture. When the young Schuon talked with him, the venerable old man drew a circle with radii on the ground and explained: "God is in the center, all paths lead to Him."
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 51067
- Title
- Stations of Wisdom.
- Author
- Frithjof Schuon
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition (1961) Thus; unstated.
- ISBN 10
- 090058811X
- ISBN 13
- 9780900588112
- Publisher
- Perennial Books,
- Place of Publication
- Pates Manor, Bedmont, Middlesex, England
- Date Published
- 1961.
- Bookseller catalogs
- History of Religion; Religious Studies; Comparative Religion; Religion; Shamanism; General Religion;
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