Seyyed Hossein Nasr 
The Need for a Sacred Science [PDF ebook] 

Part One: The World of the Spirit–A Metaphysical Context for the Cultivation of Sacred Science

1. God is Reality

2. Self-awareness and Ultimate Selfhood

3. Time–The Moving Image of Eternity

Part Two: The Unity of the Divine Stratosphere–The Diversity of the Human Atmosphere

4. One is the Spirit and Many its Human Reflections–Thoughts on the Human Condition Today

5. The Philosophia Perennis and the Study of Religion

Part Three: Science: Traditional and Modern

6. Western Science and Asian Culture

7. The Traditional Sciences

8. The Spiritual Significance of Nature

Part Four: Tradition, Sacred Science, and the Modern Predicament

9. Sacred Science and the Environmental Crisis–An Islamic Perspective

10. The Concept of Human Progress through Material Evolution: A Traditional Critique

11. Reflections on the Theological Modernism of Hans Kung

Postscript: The Need for a Sacred Science

Index