Symbol and Archetype: A Study in the Meaning of Archetypes
By Martin Lings
Pub Date: 1991
Publisher: Quinta Essentia
Binding: Paper, 141pp.
ISBN: 1870196058
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What is Symbolism? The answer to this question has been know to change altogether a man’s life; and ignorance of it can reasonably be said to have produced all the gravest problems of our times. With reference to the great religions of the world, and in particular to Islam and Christianity, Martin Lings provides us with the answer in the clearest terms, with an unusually wide scope of illustration. The central theme is man stripped of his sub-human excrescencies and re-endowed with his infinitely precious primordial heritage, and the reader is quickly impelled to identify himself with that center.