Suhail Academy

25/06/2025

APPARENT AND HIDDEN MEANING
Author:
René Guénon

₨750
APPARENT AND HIDDEN MEANING -Insights into Christian Esoterism


“This collection contains valuable traditional interpretations of many important figures and organizations of medieval Christianity and should be of great interest not only to those interested in traditional studies, but also to medievalists and students of the inner dimension of Christianity.” —S. H. Nasr
*** This volume collects under a single cover a number of seminal essays dealing with the subject and also with certain concrete manifestations of Christian esoterism in the medieval period. Without pretending to be thorough on so inexhaustible a subject, this important work of Guenon casts an unexpected light onto a specifically esoteric and initiatic aspect of Dante’s work, and above all of his Divine Comedy. Dante was without doubt far more than a literary genius, and one is justified in thinking that many treasures remain to be discovered in what Guenon calls ‘the spiritual testament of the Middle Ages.’ The author undertakes to establish that the three divisions of The Divine Comedy represent stages of initiatic realization and testify to Dante’s knowledge of traditional sciences unknown to the moderns: the science of numbers, of cosmic cycles, and of sacred astrology. He also touches on the all-important question of medieval esoterism, and corrects the errors of earlier scholars who had only glimpsed the deeper meaning of Dante’s work— providing an entirely new explanation of numerous points not previously elucidated.

20/06/2025

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE ORIENTAL DOCTRINES
Author:
René Guénon
₨1,350

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE ORIENTAL DOCTRINES
while pointing ceaselessly to the perennial wisdom found in past cultures ranging from the Shamanistic to the Indian and Chinese, the Hellenic and Judaic, the Christian and Islamic, and including also Alchemy, Hermeticism, and other esoteric currents, they direct the reader also to the deepest level of religious praxis, emphasizing the need for affiliation with a revealed tradition even while acknowledging the final identity of all spiritual paths as they approach the summit of spiritual realization. This extraordinary French metaphysician is gradually being recognized by deeper thinkers as one of the few who have truly penetrated the cloying veil of the modern age. As an expositor of pure metaphysics and its application to the science of symbols, Guenon is without peer; and his extraordinarily prescient critique of the modern world is attracting more and more attention. Little known in the English speaking world, Guenon has nevertheless long been recognized as a veritable criterion of truth by a vanguard of remarkable writers who evince that rare combination: intellectuality and spirituality. Regarded by leading scholars as the first truly authentic interpreter of many Eastern doctrines in the West, Guenon never tired, in face of the seemingly inexorable process of dissolution in the twentieth century, of pointing to the transcendent unity of all religious faiths and the abiding Truth that contains them all.

19/06/2025

FUNDAMENTAL SYMBOLS
Author:
René Guénon
₨1,350

FUNDAMENTAL SYMBOLS -The Universal Language of Sacred Science
This long awaited volume is presented here in English for the first time; and, since it constitutes one of Guenon’s greatest works, its publication must be counted as one of the great literary events of this era. In this work, probably the most significant in a modern Western language concerning symbolism, Guenon deals with the metaphysical and cosmological meaning of symbols drawn from traditions as far apart as the Greek and the Buddhist, the Druid and the Islamic. To glance at the chapter headings is to be impressed by the wealth and Variety of the contents— The Science of Letters, Symbolic Weapons., The Wild Boar & the Bear, The Language of the Birds, The Bridge and the Rainbow— are but a few of the seventy-six chapters. A striking aspect of the book is that it gives a new significance to so many of the objects, natural and man-made, with which we are inescapably surrounded in our daily life. Sensitive readers will be enriched by the immense perspective which is here offered them, both in time and space; and they will see the book above all as an introduction to the spiritual life, an introduction which fascinates and compels. For some souls it will open doors which no other key could unlock. This is a major addition to the English corpus of Guenon’s works. *** ‘Works of Rene Guenon present the writings of one of the greatest sages of our time, whose voice is even more important today than when he was alive.” —Huston Smith

18/06/2025

THE MULTIPLE STATES OF BEING
Author:
René Guénon

₨650

THE MULTIPLE STATES OF BEING
one of Guenon’s major works, treats a truly fundamental idea: the soul’s freedom lies in discovering its own nature as essential self-cognition and realising that all other states of knowledge and being are available to it as within itself. The metaphysics presupposed in such a realisation is discussed with thrust, brevity and incisiveness characteristic of the grand traditional style. The Multiple States of Being is the companion to, and the completion of The Symbolism of the Cross, which, together with Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta, constitute Rene Guenon’s great trilogy of pure metaphysics. In this work, Guenon offers a masterful explication of the metaphysical order and its multiple manifestations—of the divine hierarchies and what has been called the Great Chain of Being— and in so doing demonstrates how intellective or intrinsic knowledge of what is, and of That which is Beyond what is, is a Way of Liberation. Guenon, the metaphysical social critic, master of arcane symbolism, comparative religionist, researcher of ancient mysteries and secret histories, summoner to spiritual renewal, herald of the end days, disappears here. Reality remains.

13/06/2025

SYMBOLISM OF THE CROSS
Author:
René Guénon
₨850
SYMBOLISM OF THE CROSS
SYMBOLISM OF THE CROSS Rene Guenon Guenon gave proof of a universality of understanding that for centuries had no parallel in the Western world. Rene Guenon is one of the colossal figures of the twentieth century, probably the most significant concerning symbolism. In this book, one of his major works, Guenon deals with the metaphysical and cosmological meaning of the symbolism of the cross, a symbol common to all the traditions, a symbol which in its various forms is met with almost everywhere, and from the most remote times. It is therefore far from belonging to the Christian tradition, as is usually believed which, moreover, has somewhat lost sight of its symbolic character and has come to regard it as no longer anything but the sign of a historical event. Guenon explains, with reference to the law of correspondence which is the very foundation of all symbolism, that each thing expresses its metaphysical principle, from which it derives its reality, in accordance with its own order of existence; hence linking the multiplicity of manifestation to a reflection of the principal unity itself. A striking aspect of the book is that it gives a new significance to so many things that sensitive readers will be enriched by the immense perspective which is here offered them, both in time and space; and they will see the book above all as an introduction to the spiritual life, an introduction which fascinates and compels. For some souls it will open doors which no other key could unlock.

12/06/2025

THE REIGN OF QUANTITY AND THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Author:
René Guénon
₨1,350
THE REIGN OF QUANTITY AND THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES
The Reign of is an attack on the scientism of the modern World. In these beautiful and profound pages, Rene Guenon looks back to an ancient Wisdom, once common to both East and West but now almost entirely lost. Contemporary civilisation itself— with its industrial societies and illusory notions of progress— is his target. In particular, he shows that today’s sciences and social sciences are dominated by a quantitative approach, thus they neglect the idea of quality. To this “reign of quantity” he opposes the sacred metaphysics of the ancients, which he sees as rooted in Divine Truth. His book is ultimately a warning against the real danger that humanity faces today— a warning all the more urgent because that danger is unperceived by those from whom guidance is sought and expected. *** “Works of Rene Guenon present the writings of one of the greatest sages of our time, whose voice is even more important today than when he was alive.” —Huston Smith

11/06/2025

THE CRISIS OF THE MODERN WORLD
Author:
René Guénon
₨650
THE CRISIS OF THE MODERN WORLD
It is no longer news that the Western world is in a crisis, a crisis that has spread far beyond its point of origin and become global in nature. In 1927, Guenon responded to this crisis with the closest thing he ever wrote to a manifesto and ‘call-to-action’. The Crisis of the Modern World was his most direct and complete application of traditional metaphysical principles—particularly that of the ‘age of darkness’ preceding the end of the present world— to social criticism, surpassed only by The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, his magnum opus. In the present work, Guenon ruthlessly exposes the Western deviation’: its loss of tradition, its exaltation of action over knowledge, its rampant individualism and general social chaos. His response to these conditions was not ‘activist’, however, but purely intellectual, envisioning the coming together of Western intellectual leaders capable under favourable circumstances of returning the West to its traditional roots or, under less favourable ones, of at least preserving the `seeds’ of Tradition for the time to come.

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“It is certainly no accident that so many people at the present time should be obsessed with the idea of the ‘end of the world’, but anyone wishing to appreciate the true character of the present period must possess at least a certain amount of data on the subject. We shall begin therefore by showing that its characteristic features correspond with the indications supplied from time immemorial by the traditional doctrines regarding the cyclic period of which it forms a part.” —Preface

10/06/2025

EAST AND WEST
Author:
René Guénon
₨950
EAST AND WEST
One of the great landmarks of the age, East and West is a foundational critique of the modern world coupled with a call for intellectual reform; a renewed examination of metaphysics, the traditional sciences and symbolism with special reference to the ultimate unanimity of all spiritual traditions. His first book, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines (1921), was an exposition of metaphysics as transmitted in the Hindu tradition, and served to establish hi% specific use of important terms such as ‘esoterism’, ‘tradition’, and `orthodoxy’. Guenon’s application of traditional metaphysics to the specific cases was then broadened in the present book to the general question of East and West as conservators and transmitters of traditional wisdom in the modern age. The titles of its two parts, `Western Illusions’ and ‘How the Differences Might be Bridged, describe perfectly the book’s intention. Later books, especially The Crisis of the Modern World and its magisterial sequel, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, further extended Guenon’s penetrating critique of the modern world. The present translation is based on the work of Martin Lings, who first published it under the pseudonym William Massey.

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“Works of Rene Guenon present the writings of one of the greatest sages of our time, whose voice is even more important today than when he was alive.” —Huston Smith
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07/06/2025

05/06/2025

The World’s Wisdom
Author:
Philip Novak
₨1,150

The World’s Wisdom-Sacred Texts of the World’s Religions
The World’s Wisdom-Sacred Texts of the World’s Religions
The World’s Wisdom, an anthology of the sacred texts of the world’s religions; The Vision of Nietzsche; Buddhism: A Concise Introduction and the editor of “The Inner Journey: Views from the Buddhist Tradition.
THE WORLD’S WISDOM Sacred Texts of the World’s Religions Philip Novak The book is a World classic for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic and primal religion sources. In this perfect companion to Huston Smith’s bestselling The World’s Religions, Philip Novak distils the most powerful and elegant expressions of the wisdom of humankind. Authentic, poetic translations of key texts are coupled with insightful introductions and “grace notes.”
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“I do not know where I could turn to find a richer harvest.” —Huston Smith
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“It’s time to reconsider our devotedness to secular social science and to re-discover the world’s many profound religious traditions as our best guides back to a life of heart and meaning. Philip Novak’s loving and imaginative presentation of key texts from several traditions offers an excellent resource for this new/old direction, showing that all the wisdom we need is already available to us in abundance.” —Thomas Moore *** “A book to savour slowly, not only as a companion volume in the study of religion, but in the living of one’s life. The selections are organized in a way that helps to make the familiar scriptures of the West fresh again, and the scriptures of the East more accessible and understandable.” — Jacob Needleman
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“Beautifully organized … the volume is a major contribution to both the lay and professional studies of religion.” —Publishers Weekly ***
“A superb collection from the most entrancing literature ever to find expression in human language, literature that emerges from the mysterious depths of the soul where the primordial world of the sacred manifests itself most clearly.” —Thomas Berry
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04/06/2025

FRITHJOF SCHUON: LIFE AND TEACHINGS
Author:
Patrick Laude & Jean-Baptiste Aymard
₨950
FRITHJOF SCHUON: LIFE AND TEACHINGS
LIFE AND TEACHINGS Patrick Laude & Jean-Baptiste Aymard Frithjof Schuon is without doubt one of the major intellectual and spiritual figures of the twentieth century and yet little is known about his life in the English-speaking world. During his lifetime, despite the wide dissemination of his writings in many languages throughout the world, he remained intentionally completely outside of the public limelight and was not easily accessible except to those in quest of spiritual guidance. It is time to make known the life and thought of this colossal figure who has exercised much influence in East and West already and whose works attract an ever greater number of seekers of the perennial wisdom or the philosophia perennis of which he was the foremost expositor in his day. The first book in English devoted to the religious philosopher to appear since his death, provides his biography and an analysis of his work and spiritual teachings. Relying on Schuon’s published works as well as unpublished correspondence and other documents; the authors highlight the originality of Schuon’s life and teachings. Schuon’s life, they argue, is a quest for the inner meaning of religious experience.

28/05/2025