Sophia Perennis Et Universalis The esoterism of dante, hardcover/rene guenon

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Especially since the Renaissance, some in Western Christendom have suspected that the deeper dimension of their tradition has somehow been lost, and have therefore sought to discover, or create, an 'esoteric' or 'initiatic' Christianity.

In the middle of the nineteenth century two scholars, Gabriele Rossetti and Eug ne Aroux, pointed to certain esoteric meanings in the work of Dante Alighieri, notably The Divine Comedy.

Partly based on their scholarship, Gu non in 1925 published The Esoterism of Dante.

From the theses of Rosetti and Aroux, Gu non retains only those elements that prove the existence of such hidden meanings; but he also makes clear that esoterism is not 'heresy' and that a doctrine reserved for an elite can be superimposed on the teaching given the faithful without standing in opposition to it.

One of Ren Gu non's lifelong quests was to discover, or revive, the esoteric, initiatory dimension of the Christian tradition.

In the present volume, along with its companion volume Insights into Christian Esoterism (which includes the separate study Saint Bernard), Gu non undertakes to establish that the three parts of The Divine Comedy represent the stages of initiatic realization, exploring the parallels between the symbolism of the Commedia and that of Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Christian Hermeticism, and illustrating Dante's knowledge of traditional sciences unknown to the moderns: the sciences of numbers, of cosmic cycles, and of sacred astrology.

In these works Gu non also touches on the all-important question of medieval esoterism and discusses the role of sacred languages and the principle of initiation in the Christian tradition, as well as such esoteric Christian themes and organizations as the Holy Grail, the Guardians of the Holy Land, the Sacred Heart, the Fedeli d'Amore and the 'Courts of Love', and the Secret Language of Dante.

In addition to Dante, various other paths toward a possible Christian esoterism have been explored by many invest.