The Multiple States of the Being,9780900588600

The Multiple States of the Being

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780900588600
ISBN10: 0900588608
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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Summary

The Multiple States of the 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 Ren Gunon's great trilogy of pure metaphysics. In this work, Gunon 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 jana, intellective or intrinsic knowledge of what is, and of That

Table of Contents

Editorial Note xiii
Preface 1(56)
1 Infinity and Possibility
7(6)
2 Possibles and Compossibles
13(7)
3 Being and Non-Being
20(6)
4 Foundation of the Theory of the Multiple States
26(5)
5 Relationships of Unity and Multiplicity
31(4)
6 Analogous Considerations drawn from the Study of the Dream State
35(6)
7 The Possibilities of Individual Consciousness
41(6)
8 Mentality as the Characteristic Element of Human Individuality
47(6)
9 The Hierarchy of Individual Faculties
53(4)
10 The Limits of the Indefinite 57(4)
11 Principles of Distinction between the States of Being 61(5)
12 The Two Chaoses 66(3)
13 The Spiritual Hierarchies 69(5)
14 Reply to Objections drawn from the Plurality of Beings 74(3)
15 The Realization of the Being through Knowledge 77(4)
16 Knowledge and Consciousness 81(5)
17 Necessity and Contingency 86(4)
18 The Metaphysical Notion of Freedom 90(7)
Index 97

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