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Guardians of the Sundoor: Late Iconographic Essays (Quinta Essentia series)

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This is a collection of some of the LAST works by Dr. AK Coomaraswamy which have NEVER before been published, the articles in this book will be a treasure to anyone into Perennial Philosophy/ Gnosticism, and ancient greek and Indian symbolism. I must tell you that I personally own many 1000s of books, the best of the best ever written on the topics of Platonism, Indian Philosophy, and perennial philosophy, and Dr. A.K. Coomaraswamy's works are absolutely THE best and most intelligently written amongst all that I have; I read them over and over. His work is typified by ungodly and amazingly pithyness; Coomaraswamy says more in one page than most people cant spit out in 50 pages. The present work, even though Dr. Coomaraswamy has been dead now for MANY decades, is the first time these specific works have come to light for the reader, and they are incredible. Anyone that has not read the works of Dr. A.K. Coomaraswamy has missed the best of the best that exists on the topic of philosophy, religion, symbolism, and general metaphysics,.....this work "GUARDIANS OF THE SUNDOOR", contain articles written very late in his life, and really represent the maximum brilliance of his works as his already brilliant mind progressed. As a person (myself) that hates most EVERYTHING written on the topics of metaphysics and ontological philosophy, this is the one person that stands out above all else. If youve ever read a book, and most havent, that was so great that you said to yourself: "my Lord, this is it, brilliant...i cant wait to read it again",.......this is that book. This book deserves everyone of five stars... by contrast, most all my book reviews are one stars. Of the hundreds of people ive recommended Dr. Coomaraswamy to, all have greatly thanked me, some have even fallen over themselves in thanks,... youll love this book, its a very rare gem amongst a Mountain of other books which are pure trash on the same subjects.

Content is supposed to be great- however, I expected this book to be a little more that about 170 pages- I didn't read the fine print I guess.
My assumption (and there you go- never assume) was that a book of this caliber would be a thick, leather-bound, voluminous...maybe this is a shallow review, but I was looking for a lot more reading material from this author as his books are worthy of your time my friends.

Very happy with the book! in excellent shape. Essential in order to understand the way to remember continally
what is really necessary to the soul!