An Endless Trace

An Endless Trace: The Passionate Pursuit of Wisdom in the West

An impressionistic history of the Western spiritual tradition.

Two powerful motives weave beneath the surface of our spiritual history: the desire to know and the desire to love. The secret history of the West is the story of saints, mystics, alchemists, poets, and philosophers trying to unite these two streams and celebrate the sacred marriage of Logos and Sophia, Word and Wisdom. This book, an impressionistic history of the Western spiritual tradition, follows the traces—from ancient Greece into modern times—of those who sought to know the world and themselves, while realizing that they must overcome themselves to love the world and each other.

About the Author

Christopher Bamford is the editor-in-chief of SteinerBooks and Lindisfarne Books. A Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, he has lectured, taught, and written widely on Western spiritual and esoteric traditions, and is a contributing editor to Lapis magazine. He is the author, translator, and editor of numerous books, including The Voice of the Eagle; Celtic Christianity: Ecology and Holiness; Homage to Pythagoras: Rediscovering Sacred Science; and The Noble Traveller. An essay of his was included in the Harper San Francisco anthology Best Spiritual Writing 2000. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.