The Eye of the Heart: Metaphysics, Cosmology, Spiritual Life (Library of Traditional Wisdom)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 182 pages
• Published by: World Wisdom July 25, 1997
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0941532224
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0941532228
• Book Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 8.5 ounces

Product Review
Any serious human being will feel grateful to be confronted by such a generously discerning intellect in this darkening time -- Jacob Needleman, San Francisco State University

Anyone who is an artist concerned with the sacred should read him [His] work has meant so much to me. -- Sir John Tavener, composer and author

I have met with no more impressive work in the comparative study of Oriental and Occidental religions. -- T. S. Eliot

Schuon possesses the gift of reaching the very core of the subject he is treating, of going beyond forms. -- Seyyed Hossein Nasr, George Washington University

Product Description
Essays covering a wide range of subjects: spiritual symbolism, the afterlife, and more.

Reader Reviews
_Without a doubt Schuon Knows what he is talking about. He obviously has the intellectual grasp of the eternal truths of the perennial philosophy. It is rather inaccessible to the outsider however. I am almost inclined to believe that you already have to have grasped inner Knowing yourself, before his explanations become clear. It is like he is writing to make himself understandable to the conventional rationalist philosopher or theologian. Why bother- they have failed. _The core essay of this book expresses the perennial truth that the Eye of the Heart both sees all things and is how we truly know all things. To this end the brain is merely a secondary and not essential organ. It, and rational thought, may support our Knowing and Connection, but it will never be the cause of it. It is a lesser tool for a lesser world. The Eye of the Heart is that two-way lens by which we Know the Creator, and by which the Creator Knows us. It is our center by which we are joined by the vertical spiritual axis with our Source. _Schuon mentions that we will probably never know whether there is a historical connection between the "Eye of the Heart" teachings of Plotinian Doctrine, Augustinian Doctrine, and Sufic Doctrine. He also points out that it is unimportant. This is part of the perennial philosophy, the golden chain that has always existed. Who received it first is irrelevant. It predated all three schools. _In his perceptive introduction Huston Smith admits that at first he found Schuon to be somewhat difficult to penetrate- but he persisted. He also reminds us of that apt statement from _The Cloud of Unknowing_: "The point that I am making is correct, but if you cannot grasp it, then let it be, until God himself helps you to understand." _If this book appeals to you, then you might like to attempt the more complete exposition in the author's _Survey of Metaphysics and Esoterism_.