Symbolism, Art, and Hidden Geometry

Traditional Symbolism and Hermeneutics

  • René Guénon — Symbols of Sacred Science
  • Ananda K. Coomaraswamy — Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought?
  • Jean Borella — The Sense of the Supernatural

Sacred Art and Iconography

  • Titus Burckhardt — Sacred Art in East and West
  • Emile Mâle — The Gothic Image
  • Otto von Simson — The Gothic Cathedral

Geometry, Number, and Proportion

  • Matila Ghyka — The Geometry of Art and Life
  • Keith Critchlow — Order in Space
  • Robert Lawlor — Sacred Geometry

Architecture as Initiatic Space

  • Vitruvius — De Architectura
  • Rudolf Wittkower — Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
  • Alain Erlande-Brandenburg — The Cathedral

Hidden Codes and Symbolic Structures

  • Fulcanelli — The Mystery of the Cathedrals
  • Eugène Canseliet — Symbolism of the Great Work
  • Michael Maier — Atalanta Fugiens

Image, Imagination, and the Imaginal

  • Henry Corbin — Mundus Imaginalis
  • Gilbert Durand — The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary
  • James Hillman — Re-Visioning Psychology