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The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo: Involution, E...

Quick Answer The Life Divine (1939-1940, revised 1949) by Sri Aurobindo is a 1,100-page philosophical masterwork arguing that consciousness, not matter, is the fundamental reality. The universe is a process...

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The Symbolism of the Cross by René Guénon

Quick Answer The Symbolism of the Cross (1931) is René Guénon's metaphysical treatise on the cross as the universal symbol of the intersection of states of being. The vertical axis...

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The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Time...

Quick Answer The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times (1945) is René Guénon's most systematic and prophetic work. It describes modernity as the terminal phase of a...

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The Crisis of the Modern World by René Guénon

Quick Answer The Crisis of the Modern World (1927) by René Guénon is the founding text of Traditionalism: a systematic diagnosis of modernity as a spiritual catastrophe. The modern West...

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Logotherapy: Viktor Frankl's Psychology of Meaning

Quick Answer Logotherapy is Viktor Frankl's psychology of meaning: the drive to find purpose is the primary human motivation, not pleasure (Freud) or power (Adler). Frankl, a Holocaust survivor, observed...

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The Noosphere: Teilhard de Chardin's Vision of ...

Quick Answer The noosphere ("sphere of mind") is the layer of collective human consciousness surrounding the Earth, proposed by Teilhard de Chardin and Vernadsky. As the atmosphere is the layer...