Guardians of the Sun-Door: Late Iconographic Essays & Drawings
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Robert Strom (ed)“Coomaraswamy’s works possess a timeliness which flows from their being rooted in the eternal present…It is with joy that we can welcome Fons Vitae’s publication of the final essays and drawings of this formidable metaphysician and peerless interpreter of art and symbolism which contain the saving truths embedded in the millennial traditions of mankind.”-Seyyed Hossein Nasr
These essays have been presented as A.K. Coomaraswamy left them over a half a century ago. The gentle reader need not become involved in the multitude of details under discussion; nor is it essential to deal with the many references cited in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Arabic, German, et al. The text as a whole literally plunges a person into the astounding mentality of the ancient world and the genius of the early authorities whose systems of metaphysics, iconography, analogy and symbolism provide us with both new levels of meaning and reassurance for our lives today.