Categoria: Perenialistas – Temático

Discriminative: that is to say, capable of discerning intuitively between the Absolute and the relative, and of prolonging this discernment onto planes that are relative; contemplative: that is to say, capable of attaching itself – in a “naturally supernatural” manner – to the consciousness of pure Being and to the pure Essence; operative: that is…

Everything that is opposed to spiritual concentration or, in other words, to unity. (GTUFS: UnityReligions, Transcendence and Universality of Esoterism)

Doctrine offers the whole truth, first by virtue of its form, and then in regard to the capacity of the properly qualified intelligence to receive and actualize it; it lays open its content in a way that is doubtless elliptical, since it is a form, but in a way that is also total since this…

Dogmatism is characterized by the fact that it attributes an absolute scope and an exclusive sense to a particular point of view or aspect. (GTUFS: UIslam, Islam) Dogmatism as such does not consist in the mere enunciation of an idea, that is to say, in the fact of giving form to a spiritual intuition, but…

Doubt is nothing else but the void left by absent certainty and this void readily makes way for the false plenitude of error. (GTUFS: LogicT, The Alchemy of the Sentiments)

The word “ECSTASY” can include several meanings, depending on the mode or degree of rapture; but in every case it indicates a departure from terrestrial consciousness, whether this departure be active or passive in character, or rather, whatever may be the combination of these two characteristics. (GTUFS: LSelf, A View of Yoga)

There is a false ECUMENISM, as sentimental and vague as you please, which to all intents and purposes abolishes doctrine; to reconcile two adversaries, one strangles them both, which is the best way to make peace. True ECUMENISM can exist only on two levels: either it involves an understanding between the religions which is based…

Which consists . . . in isolating an idea from its often necessary context, and then in overemphasizing it to the point of giving it a quasi-absolute character; and to the point of ruining, logically speaking, the idea in question, whose overall intention is nevertheless plausible. (GTUFS: SufismVQ, Paradoxes of an Esoterism)

We understand the term “EMANATION” in the Platonic sense: the starting point remains transcendent, hence unaffected, whereas in deist or naturalist EMANATIONism the cause pertains to the same ontological order as the effect. (GTUFS: RootsHC, On Intelligence) “Emanation” is strictly discontinuous because of the transcendence and immutability of the divine Substance, for any continuity would…

Empirical “I”: The EMPIRICAL “I” is nothing but a shifting tissue of images and tendencies; when the ego of an individual eight years old is compared with the ego of the same individual at eighty years of age one may well ask oneself where the real “I” is. And if a man could live for…

The word “EPICLESIUS” . . . means an invocation (epiklesis) of the Holy Spirit, more specifically in connection with the Eucharistic prayers. (GTUFS: No book reference, The Enigma of the Epiclesius)

The fact that ERRORs exist does not in itself amount to a proof that the intelligence suffers from an inevitable fallibility, for ERROR does not derive from intelligence as such. On the contrary, ERROR is a privative phenomenon causing the activity of the intelligence to deviate through the intervention of an element of passion or…

The word “ESOTERISM” suggests in the first place an idea of complementarity, of a “half” as it were: ESOTERISM is the complement of exoterism, it is the “spirit” which completes the “letter”. Where there is a truth of Revelation, hence of formal and theological truth, there must also be a truth of intellection, hence of…

One conceives of ETERNITY according to the proper sense of the word, as being what is beyond duration and therefore having neither beginning nor end. (GTUFS: FaceA, Concerning the Notion of ETERNITY)

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“Formulation is not intended to be exhaustive – no FORMULATION could be – but it does nonetheless provide an adequate reference point; in metaphysics, that is all one can ask of human thought.” (GTUFS: SurveyME, Dimensions of Omnipotence)

“All EXPRESSION is of necessity relative, but language is nonetheless capable of conveying the quality of absoluteness which has to be conveyed; EXPRESSION contains all, like a seed; it opens all, like a master-key; what remains to be seen is to which capacity of understanding it is addressed.” (GTUFS: StationsW, Orthodoxy and Intellectuality)

l’Infini In metaphysics, it is necessary to start from the idea that the Supreme Reality is absolute, and that being absolute it is infinite. That is absolute which allows of no augmentation or diminution, or of no repetition or division; it is therefore that which is at once solely itself and totally itself. And that…

The Archangel GABRIEL is a personification of a function of the Spirit, the celestial ray which reaches the Prophets on earth. (GTUFS: UIslam, The Prophet)

Existence is a reality in some respects comparable to a living organism; it cannot with impunity be reduced, in man’s consciousness and in his modes of action, to proportions that do violence to its nature; pulsations of the “extra-rational” pass through it from every quarter. Now religion and all forms of supra-rational wisdom belong to…