René Guenon

This paper examines how the Eucharist both engages in the cosmogonic Act, in ill temper, and simultaneously engenders  the cosmoyltic "reunion" of Essence and Substance. It surveys the Passover (Pesach) in this context and examines the cosmological symbolisms of bread and wine.

The scholarly world is never too short of what is in vogue as 'critiques of modernity' that another addition to this stock would have been redundant. Guénon's The Crisis of the Modern World however, is not simply `another' of this but is distinguished by its profound wisdom, transcending conventional approaches that either diagnosed the symptoms and not the real disease or carried from an exclusively 'philosophical' viewpoint, oblivious to the fact that 'philosophy' itself is among modernity's offsprings. Guénon's theme is sophia perennis, or primordial Wisdom, which seeks to resurrect the sacred metaphysics that lies at the root of the world's major religions.