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This pivotal book is the first to challenge the concept of evolutionism from a cosmological standpoint. It offers a penetrating and comprehensive analysis, based on the traditional metaphysics, of how things were at the beginning of time, the way they unfolded, where things stand at present, and the direction in which they are headed. This is not a book of blind hope or pessimism. Drawing upon the spiritual resources of the perennial wisdom, the author demonstrates that while no one can alter the cyclical current, the choice is open for each individual to turn it to his or her benefit or loss.

Whitall Perry (1920 - 2005) was born near Boston. His early intellectual interests included Platonism and Vedanta and he traveled extensively in the Middle and Far East both before and after World War II with a brief interlude of study at Harvard University. He was one of several Harvard students who came under  Coomaraswamy's  influence in the 1940s. Between 1946 and 1952 Perry and his wife lived in Egypt, at which time he developed close ties with  René Guénon , after whose death he moved with his family to Switzerland. He was already a close associate of Frithjof Schuon with whom he returned to the United States in 1980. Perry is the author of several books including Gurdjieff in the Light of Tradition (1978), a work commissioned by the Editor of Studies in Comparative Religion to help dispel the miasma of confusion that surrounds the Armenian thaumaturge. More recently, he published Challenges to a Secular Society (1996), a collection of essays on subjects such as drug-induced "mysticism," reincarnation doctrines, psychotherapy, modern "guru" figures, Shakespeare, cosmology and psychology. Perry has also written many articles including, "Reincarnation: New Flesh on Old Bones" which was published in the journal Studies in Comparative Religion. However, A Treasury Of Traditional Wisdom remains his most well known publication and it is arguably one of the most important works in the traditionalist canon.