By Frithjof Schuon, Translated from the French
Pub Date: 1995
Publisher: World Wisdom Books
Binding: Paper, 125pp.
ISBN: 0941532194
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Foreword

The image of man presented to us by modern psychology is not only fragmentary, it is pitiable. In reality, man is as if suspended between animality and divinity; now modern thought--be it philosophical or scientific--admits only animality, practically speaking.

We wish, on the contrary, to correct and perfect the image of man by insisting on his divinity; not that we wish to make a god of man, quod absit; we intend simply to take account of his true nature, which transcends the earthly, and lacking which he would have no reason for being.

It is this that we believe we can call--in a symbolist language--the "transfiguration of man."