Tage Leonard Lindbom (24 October 1909 – 30 September 2001) was a mystic and

conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civiliza ...

philosopher, who early in his life was the party theoretician and director of the archives of the

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1938–1965. He served on public boards and commissions dealing with cultural questions, including the executive board of the Royal Opera. He later converted to Islam. He became a representative of the Traditional School and the

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. Lindbom has been called "the grand old man" of Swedish

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and is the author of more than 20 books on philosophy and religion. He was a contributor to the quarterly journal, ''

Studies in Comparative Religion ''Studies in Comparative Religion'' was a quarterly academic journal published from 1963 to 1987 that contained essays on the spiritual practices and religious symbolism of the world's religions. The journal was notable for the number of prominent ...

'', which dealt with

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and the Traditionalist perspective. Since the early 1960s Lindbom was a disciple of the

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metaphysician

Frithjof Schuon Frithjof Schuon ( ; ; 18 June 1907 – 5 May 1998) was a Swiss philosopher and spiritual leader, belonging to the Traditionalist School of Perennial philosophy, Perennialism. He was the author of more than twenty works in French on metaphys ...

. Lindbom had in his later years an inner group of spiritual students in

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and is the author of the first

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commentary on the

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, entitled ''Encounter with the

''.

Writings in English

* ''The Tares and the Good Grain: Or, The Kingdom of Man at the Hour of Reckoning'' (transl. of ''Agnarna och vetet'' from the French by Alvin Moore, Jr.),

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(UK), 1982, / 0865540799. * ''The Myth of Democracy'' (transl. of ''Demokratin är en myt''), Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1996, / 0-8028-4064-7. * "Lucifer" (transl. of chapter from ''Bortom teologin''), ''Every Branch in Me: Essays on the Meaning of Man'', ed. Barry McDonald,

World Wisdom World Wisdom is an independent American publishing company established in 1980 in Bloomington, Indiana. World Wisdom publishes religious and philosophical texts, including the work of authors such as Frithjof Schuon, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Titus ...

, Bloomington, 2002. / 978–0941532396. Also published in ''Religion of the Heart: Essays Presented to Frithjof Schuon on His Eightieth Birthday'', eds.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr Seyyed Hossein Nasr (born April 7, 1933) is an Iranian Americans, Iranian-American academic, philosophy, philosopher, theology, theologian, and Ulama, Islamic scholar. He is University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University. ...

and

William Stoddart William Smith Stoddart (25 June 1925 – 9 November 2023) was a Scottish-Canadian physician, author and spiritual traveller, who wrote several books on the Perennial Philosophy and on comparative religion. Biography William Smith Stoddart was b ...

, Washington D.C., 1991. * (transl. of chapter from ''Mellan himmel och jord''), ''Studies in Comparative Religion'', Vol. 9, No. 4. (Autumn, 1975). Also publ. in ''The Underlying Religion: An Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy'', eds.

Martin Lings Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – 12 May 2005), also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English writer, Islamic scholar, and philosopher. A student of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon and an authority on the work of William Shak ...

and Clinton Minnaar,

, Bloomington, 2007. . * , ''Modern Age'', Vol. 34, No. 4 (Summer 1992), p. 295-302. * , ''Sophia: The Journal of Traditional Studies'', Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998, p. 78–90.

Books in French

* ''L'ivraie et le bon grain ou Le royaume de l'homme à l'heure des échéances'', trad. du Suédois par

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(transl. of ''Agnarna och vetet''), Milano, 1976.

Books in German

* ''Atlantis : Idee und Wirklichkeit des Sozialismus'' (transl. of ''Efter Atlantis''), Frankfurt am Main, 1955.

Books in Spanish

* (transl. of ''Agnarna och vetet''), Madrid, 1980.

Books in Portuguese

* ''O Mito da Democracia'' (transl. of ''Demokratin är en myt''), São Paulo, Ibrasa, 2006.

Books in Turkish

* ''Başaklar ve Ayrık Otları Modernliğin Sahte Kutsalları'' (transl. of ''Agnarna och vetet''), İnsan Yayınları, Istanbul, 1997, 2003. * ''Demokrasi miti'' (transl. of ''Demokratin är en myt''), İnsan Yayınları, Istanbul, 1998. Transl. Ömer Baldik.

Works in Swedish

* ''Efter Atlantis'', Stockholm, 1951. * ''Sancho Panzas väderkvarnar'', Stockholm, 1962. * ''Otidsenliga betraktelser'', Stockholm, 1968. * ''Mellan himmel och jord'', Stockholm, 1970. * ''Agnarna och vetet'', Stockholm, 1974. * ''Myt i verkligheten : en studie i marxism'', Uppsala, 1977. * ''Människoriket : Tankar om Västerlandets sekularisering'', Uppsala, 1978. * ''Jakobs dröm'', Stockholm, 1978. * ''Är religionen en socialutopi?'', Borås, 1980. * ''Riket är ditt'', Stockholm, 1981. * ''Tankens vägar'', Borås, 1982. * ''Omprövning'', Borås, 1983. * ''Den gyllene kedjan : falsk och äkta gnosis'', Borås, 1984. * ''Roosevelt och det andra världskriget'', Borås, 1985. * ''Bortom teologin'', Borås, 1986. * ''Fallet Tyskland'', Borås, 1988. * ''Mystik'', Borås, 1990. * ''Demokratin är en myt'', Borås, 1991. * ''Före solnedgången'', Borås, 1993. * ''Ett är nödvändigt'', Borås, 1994. * ''Modernismen'', Borås, 1995. * ''Konservatism i vår tid : Åtta idéhistoriska essäer'', Borås, 1996. * ''Västerlandets framväxt och kris'', Skellefteå, 1999. * ''I Frithjof Schuons fotspår'', introduction by

Ashk Dahlén Ashk Peter Dahlén (born 3 June 1972 in Tafresh, Iran) is a Swedish scholar, linguist, Iranologist, translator, and associate professor ( docent) in Persian language at Uppsala University. He is quadrilingual in Swedish, Persian, English la ...

, Stockholm, 2003 * "Möte med Koranen", ''Minaret'', No. 4/2002, No. 1–2/2003, No. 3–4/2003, No. 1–2/2004 * "Ljus i mörkret", ''Minaret'', 2004, No. 3–4.

References

External links

Tage Lindbom
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