The Multiple States of the Being

CONTENTS......Page 10
EDITORIAL NOTE......Page 12
THE WORKS OF RENE GUENON......Page 14
PREFACE......Page 16
1 INFINITY AND POSSIBILITY......Page 22
2 POSSIBLES AND COMPOSSIBLES......Page 28
3 BEING AND NON-BEING......Page 35
4 FOUNDATION OF THE THEORY OF THE MULTIPLE STATES......Page 41
5 RELATIONSHIPS OF UNITY AND MULTIPLICITY......Page 46
6 ANALOGOUS CONSIDERATIONS DRAWN FROM STUDY OF THE DREAM STATE......Page 50
7 THE POSSIBILITIES OF INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 56
8 MENTALITY AS THE CHARACTERISTIC ELEMENT OF HUMAN INDIVIDUALITY......Page 62
9 THE HIERARCHY OF INDIVIDUAL FACULTIES......Page 68
10 THE LIMITS OF THE INDEFINITE......Page 72
11 PRINCIPLES OF DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE STATES OF BEING......Page 76
12THE TWO CHAOSES......Page 81
13 THE SPIRITUAL HIERARCHIES......Page 84
14 REPLY TO OBJECTIONS DRAWN FROM THE PLURALITY OF BEINGS......Page 89
15 THE REALIZATION OF THE BEING THROUGH KNOWLEDGE......Page 92
16 KNOWLEDGE AND CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 96
17 NECESSITY AND CONTINGENCY......Page 101
18 THE METAPHYSICAL NOTION OF FREEDOM......Page 105
INDEX......Page 112