Tage Lindbom

Tage Leonard Lindbom (24 October 1909 - 2001), PhD in Political science, who was early in his life the party theoretician and director of the archives of the Swedish Social Democratic Party 1938-1965, but later in his life he found ibland in God and became a representative of the Traditional School and the Perennial philosophy. Lindbom has been called "the grand old man" of Swedish conservativism 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, which dealt with religious symbolism and the Traditionalist perspective.

Since the early 1960s Lindbom was a disciple of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon, who is the foremost representative of sapiential esoterism in the modern world. Lindbom had an inner group of spiritual students in Sweden and is the author of the first esoteric commentary on the Koran in Swedish, entitled "Encounter with the Koran".

Books in English

* "The Tares and the Good Grain: Or, The Kingdom of Man at the Hour of Reckoning" (transl. of "Agnarna och vetet"), Mercer University Press (UK), 1982, ISBN: 9780865540798 / 0865540799.
* "The Myth of Democracy" (transl. of "Demokratin är en myt"), Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1996, ISBN: 0802840647 / 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, Bloomington, 2002. ISBN: 0941532399 / 978-0941532396. Also published in "Religion of the Heart: Essays Presented to Frithjof Schuon on His Eightieth Birthday", eds. Seyyed Hossein Nasr and William Stoddart, Washington D.C., 1991.
* Virtue and Morality (transl. of chapter from "Mellan himmel och jord"), "The Underlying Religion: An Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy", eds. Martin Lings and Clinton Minnaar, World Wisdom, Bloomington, 2007. ISBN 978-1-933316-43-7.

Books in French

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

* "La semilla y la cizaña: el reino del hombre al término del plazo; vérsión castellana de Alejandro Corniero Fernández-Baños" (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.

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, Stockholm, 2003 ISBN 91-518-4138-X
* Möte med Koranen, "Minaret", 2003, nr. 3–4.
* Ljus i mörkret, "Minaret", 2004, nr. 3–4.

See also

* Traditional School
* Frithjof Schuon
* Kurt Almqvist
* René Guénon
* Seyyed Hossein Nasr
* Ivan Aguéli
* Ashk Dahlén
* William Stoddart
* Whitall Perry

External links

* [http://mac.abc.se/home/onesr/tl/mmk_sv.html Möte med Koranen] - Excerpts from Lindbom's Koranic commentary on Living Islam
* [http://mac.abc.se/~onesr/tl/eww_e.html An Essay on the Western World]
* [http://www.worldwisdom.com/Public/Authors/Detail.asp?AuthorID=31&WhatType=2 Tage Lindbom] On World Wisdom Books

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