Symbol & Archetype

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Author: Martin Lings
Publisher: Quinta Essentia
Year: 1997
Pages: 141
Printed: UK
ISBN: 1-870196-05-8
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: New
Weight: 155gr.
Description from the publisher: What is Symbolism? With reference to the great religions of the world, and in particular to Christianity and Islam, Martin Lings here gives us the answer in the clearest terms, with an unusually wide scope of illustration, a versatility to which the list of chapter headings bears some witness. The central theme is man, stripped of his sub-human excrescences and re-endowed with his infinitely precious primordial heritage, and the reader is quickly impelled to identify himself with that centre. Nor is it only his intelligence that impels him, for the further we read, the more we renew our deeply ingrained consciousness that everything has a vertical dimension that gives it a divine significance and this awareness brings with it an existential sense of that dimension in ourselves.

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Weight .155 kg