The multiple states of being

by René Guénon

Paperback, 1984

Series

Publication

Imprint: Burdett, New York : Larson Publications, c1984. Context: Originally published in French as Les états multiples de l'être. Responsibility: René Guénon ; translated from French by Joscelyn Godwin.. OCLC Number: 10900136. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 140 pages ; 21 cm.

Call number

PS / Gueno

Barcode

BK-02085

ISBN

0943914086 / 9780943914084

Original publication date

1932

Collections

Your library, Adult Materials, Other Mystics

CSS Library Notes

Description: The Multiple States of Being, one of Guenon's major works, treats a truly fundamental idea: the soul's freedom lies in discovering its own nature as essential self-cognition and realizing that all other states of knowledge and being are available to it as within itself. The metaphysics presupposed in such a realization is discussed with thrust, brevity, and incisiveness characteristic of the grand traditional style.

Table of Contents: Infinity & possibility --
Possibles & compossibles --
Being & non-being --
Foundation of the theory of the multiple states --
Relationships of unity & multiplicity --
Analogous considerations drawn from the study of the dream state --
The possibilities of individual consciousness --
Mentality as the characteristic element of human individuality --
The hierarchy of individual faculties --
The confines of the indefinite --
Principles of distinction between the states of being --
The two chaoses --
The spiritual hierarchies --
Reply to objections drawn from the plurality of beings --
The realization of the being through knowledge --
Knowledge & consciousness --
Necessity & contingency --
The metaphysical idea of freedom.

Location: COLLECTION: Ancient & Primal Religions -- SECTION: Religions of Antiquity - Hellenic Religions / Filing name: Guenon

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Physical description

140 p.; 21 cm

Description

The Multiple States of the Being is the companion to, and the completion of, The Symbolism of the Cross, which, together with Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta, constitute Ren Gu non's great trilogy of pure metaphysics. In this work, Gu non offers a masterful explication of the metaphysical order and its multiple manifestations-of the divine hierarchies and what has been called the Great Chain of Being-and in so doing demonstrates how j ana, intellective or intrinsic knowledge of what is, and of That which is Beyond what is, is a Way of Liberation. Gu non the metaphysical social critic, master of arcane symbolism, comparative religionist, researcher of ancient mysteries and secret histories, summoner to spiritual renewal, herald of the end days, disappears here. Reality remains.… (more)