SWORD OF WISDOM Essays on Tradition, Metaphysics and Cosmology

SWORD OF WISDOM Essays on Tradition, Metaphysics and Cosmology Muhammad Suheyl Umar (Ed.) The articles collected in this volume articulate a perspective, a vision of reality, shared wisdom of humanity that is primordial and has been present’in every time and every place in human history. While this primordial vision provides human beings with a comprehensive vision in terms of which they can lead a happier, healthier life, we maintain that its practical consequences cannot be the main reason for accepting it. The main reason for changing to a different pudook must be that we have become convinced of its truth. And truth is not to be defined pragmatically but in terms of correspondence: to believe that a statement is true is to believe that it correctly represents the way things are. One of the most exciting challenges facing us at the beginning of the twenty first century is to learn to live harmoniously with ourselves, with each other and with the planet that sustains us. This is a book that contributes towards our understanding of ourselves and our place in the universe and makes available to the readers a repository of thought, based on the ageless wisdom of Tradition, which has been a source of inspiration and guidance from the earliest times to the present day. It also presents the leading edge of contemporary thinking. The contributions in the volume are by some of the leading thinkers of the traditionalist school: Rene Guenon, Frithjof Schuon, Martin Lings, S. H. Nasr, T. Burckhardt, Marco Pallis, Leo Schaya and others