The book includes works that make up an important part of the heritage of the outstanding French traditionalist thinker René Guénon. In the “Symbols of the Cross”, which explores the main symbols of “sacred science” used in various civilizational, religious, mythological systems, the author consistently deploys an inexhaustible wealth of meanings of this most famous and ancient ideogram. "King of the World" reveals the secrets of the hierarchy of spiritual power and its sacred center Finally, in his Notes on Initiation, Guenon leads the reader to the idea of initiation as experienced in the experience of the introduction to true knowledge, qualitatively superior to any knowledge of a purely theoretical order. The preface gives an overview of the life and work of this most prominent representative of traditionalism - the ideological trend, interest in which is growing in the West, and in recent years in Russia.