Philosophia perennis: Historical Outlines of Western Spirituality in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought (International Archives of the History ... internationales d'histoire des idées)

The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history. Contents......Page 7 Preface......Page 11 1 FANTASY AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF IMAGINATION......Page 18 2 OUTLINES OF PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY......Page 41 3 DIVINE NAMES......Page 71 4 KOSMOS ANTHROPOS......Page 141 5 ARCHETYPES......Page 220 6 SPIRITUAL SPACES......Page 284 7 THE RETURN OF TIME......Page 336 8 EPOCHS AND ERAS......Page 377 9 TRANSLATIO SAPIENTIAE......Page 417 10 SCHELLING’S “WORLD-AGES”......Page 450 Bibliography......Page 473 Index......Page 497