Titus Burckhardt - The Essential, Reflections on Sacred Art Faiths and Civilizations
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Burckhardt, Titus
[Selections. English. 2003]
The essential Titus Burckhardt: reflections on sacred art, faiths and civilizations / edited by
William Stoddart ; foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
p. cm. ? (Perennial philosophy series)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311) and index.
ISBN 0-941532-36-4 (alk: paper)
ISBN 0-941532-95-X (in Ebook format)
1. Religion. 2. Religious Art. 3. Tradition (Philosophy) I. Stoddart, William. II. Title. III.
Series.
Contents
List of color illustrations viii
List of black-and-white illustrations in the text ix
Preface xi
Foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr xv
Introduction
Titus Burckhardt and the Perennialist School 1
1. Some Fundamental Doctrines and Principles
How to Approach Medieval and Oriental Civilizations 11
Knowledge and Love in Sufism 13
Metaphysics and Virtue in Sufism 16
2. Traditional and Modern Science
The Perspective of Traditional Cosmology 23
Traditional Symbolism and Modern Empiricism 26
The Theory of Evolution 28
Contra Teilhard de Chardin 41
Modern Psychology 44
Islamic Science 65
The Cosmology of the Arab Philosophers 78
3. Sacred Art as the Expression of Religious Truth
The Universality of Sacred Art 87
Hindu Art
The Hindu Temple 94
Hindu Sculpture 98
Buddhist Art 100
Taoist Art 106
Christian Art
The Foundations of Christian Art 112
The Royal Door of Chartres Cathedral 122
Gargoyles 132
The Wooden Chest 133
The Decadence and the Renewal of Christian Art 134
Islamic Art
Introduction 150
Characteristic Aspects 151
The Question of Images: Aniconism in Islamic Art 151
The Impact of the Arabic Language on Islamic Art 153
Arabic Compared With Other Languages 155
The Arabic Language and the Koran 156
4. History, the Governance of Men and Nations,
and the Modern World
The Nature of Kingship 161
The Law of Hierarchy and the Four Social Stations
The Law of Hierarchy 165
The Four Social Stations 165
Chess as a Symbol of Rulership 168
St. Catherine of Siena and the City of the Soul
The City as the Image of the Soul 170
The Monastic Orders 170
St. Catherine 171
The Inner Light 172
Political Dissensions 174
The Adventurers 175
The Pope 175
What is Conservatism? 181
?Riding the Tiger? 187
The Irruption of the Modern World
as it Affected Morocco 193
5. Alchemy
Insight into Alchemy 205
The Witness of an African Goldsmith 207
?Nature Can Overcome Nature? 209
The Story of Nicolas Flamel and his Wife Perrenelle 221
6. Aspects of the Spiritual Life
The Spiritual Life: Christian
Because Dante is Right 231
St. Bernardino of Siena and the Sacred Monogram 245
The Alchemy of Prayer 254
The Spiritual Life: Islamic
Islamic Mysticism 259
The ?Golden Chain? of Sufi Saints 261
The Spiritual Life: Hindu
Bathing in the Ganges 279
Woman as the Symbol par excellence of Beauty 279
The Body as ?Temple? of the Holy Spirit: The
Temple as ?Body? of the Holy Spirit 280
The Sun Dance and the Sacred Pipe
Meeting with Yellowtail 284
The Sun Dance 285
7. Evocations of Traditional Moroccan Life
Return to Fez 293
Ito?s Cave 299
The Fools of God 303
The Comb-maker 306
?The Life of the Nomad? by the Emir ?Abd al-QÂdir 308
Biographical Notes 310
Bibliography of Titus Burckhardt 311
Index 323