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Coomaraswamy's final un-published essays, including: The Iconography of Sagittarius, Philo's Doctrine of the Cherubim, Concerning Sphinxes, and The Concept of Ether in Greek and Indian Cosmology, are complemented by the author's own illustrations from his personal archives.“Coomaraswamy’s works possess a timeliness which flows from their being rooted in the eternal present...It is with joy that we can welcome Fons Vitae’s publication of the final essays and drawings of this formidable metaphysician and peerless interpreter of art and symbolism which contain the saving truths embedded in the millennial traditions of mankind.”-Seyyed Hossein NasrThese essays have been presented as A.K. Coomaraswamy left them over a half a century ago. The gentle reader need not become involved in the multitude of details under discussion; nor is it essential to deal with the many references cited in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Arabic, German, et al. The text as a whole literally plunges a person into the astounding mentality of the ancient world and the genius of the early authorities whose systems of metaphysics, iconography, analogy and symbolism provide us with both new levels of meaning and reassuran

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Author

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Robert Strom (ed)

Publisher

Quinta Essentia

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781887752596

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Religion, Philosophy

Updated

2026-03-24