Titus Burckhardt

Spiritual attainment has frequently been described in the terminology of the alchemical tradition, whereby man’s leaden dull nature is returned to its golden original state.

The art historian and philosopher of religion, Titus Burckhardt (1908-1984), was one of the 20th century’s most renowned experts on sacred art. The reader is drawn into a pilgrimage through the history of Christian art to architecture, iconography, and illumination; always returning to the fundamental genius of Christianity.

Titus Burckhardt (1908–1984) was a leading member of the “traditionalist” or “perennialist” school of comparative religious thought, well known for its espousal of the “transcendent unity of religions.” Burckhardt was also an expert on Islam, Islamic arts and crafts, and its spiritual dimension, Sufism.