Categoria: Perenialistas – Temático

“For the volitional or affective man (the bhakta) GOD is ‘He’ and the ego is ‘I’ whereas for the gnostic or intellective man (the jnani) GOD is ‘I’ –or ‘Self’– and the ego is ‘he’ or ‘other.’ (LSelf, p.201) What must be understood by the term “GOD”? From the strictly human point of view, which…

If God alone has the right to punish, it is because He is beyond the ego; HATRED means to arrogate to oneself the place of God, to forget one’s human sharing of a common misery, to attribute to one’s own ‘I’ a kind of absoluteness, detaching it from that substance of which individuals are only…

Heresy (extrinsic/ intrinsic): It is once again appropriate . . . to define the difference between a HERESY which is extrinsic, hence relative to a given orthodoxy, and another that is intrinsic, hence false in itself as also with respect to all orthodoxy or to Truth as such. To simplify the matter, we may limit…

Heterodoxy (intrinsic): Intrinsic HETERODOXY is, we repeat, contrary not only to a particular perspective or a particular formulation, but to the very nature of things, for it results, not from a perspective legitimate by nature and therefore “providential,” but from the arbitrary judgment of a mind left to its own resources and obliged to “create”…

Heyoka (Sioux): The HEYOKA were men who, having been honored in a dream by the vision of the Thunderbirds, had thereby contracted the obligation, on the one hand, to humble themselves, and, on the other, to dissimulate their consecration. Their case was similar, in certain respects, to that of the dervishes known by the name…

Holiness is the sleep of the ego and the wake of the immortal soul. The moving surface of our being must sleep and must therefore withdraw from images and instincts, whereas the depths of our being must be awake in the consciousness of the Divine, thus lighting up, like a motionless flame, the silence of…

Homo Sapiens: To say HOMO sapiens, is to say HOMO religiosus; there is no man without God. . . . Our definition of HOMO sapiens being deiformity – which makes of him a total being, hence a theophany – it is only logical and legitimate that, for us, the final word on anthropology is conformity…

To be “horizontal” is to love only terrestrial life, to the detriment of the ascending and celestial path; to be “exteriorized,” is to love only outer things, to the detriment of moral and spiritual values. Or again: HORIZONTALITY is to sin against transcendence, thus it is to forget God and consequently the meaning of life;…

What is HUMAN is what is natural to man, and what is most essentially or most specifically natural to man is what relates to the Absolute and which consequently requires the transcending of what is earthly in man. (GTUFS: DivineHuman, Consequences Flowing from the Mystery of Subjectivity) There is a great deal of talk these…

…the question may be asked whether the sophia perennis is a “HUMANISM”; the answer would in principle be “yes”, but in fact it must be “no” since HUMANISM in the conventional sense of the term de facto exalts fallen man and not man as such. The HUMANISM of the moderns is practically an utilitarianism aimed…

‘Humanitarianism’ in fact puts itself forward as a philosophy founded on the idea that man is good; but to believe that man is good is almost always to believe that God is bad, or that He would be bad ‘if He existed’; and as modern men believe less and less in God – apart from…

The Islamic religion is divided into three constituent parts: Iman, Faith, which contains everything that one must believe; Islam, the Law, which contains everything that one must do; IHSAN,* operative virtue, which confers upon believing and doing the qualities that make them perfect, or in other words, which intensify or deepen both faith and works.…

It is true that the word “ILLUMINATION” can have a superior meaning, in which case it no longer designates a passive phenomenon; unitive and liberating ILLUMINATION is beyond the distinction between passivity and activity. Or more exactly, ILLUMINATION is the Divine Activity in us, but for that very reason it also possesses an aspect of…

Image (simple / complex): An IMAGE is simple insofar as it represents a particular heavenly reality, and complex insofar as it includes, as may be the case, a particular group of symbols, indicating for example diverse attributes or functions. (GTUFS: LogicT, The Saint and the Divine Image)

Immanence / Transcendence: Immanence is not only the presence of the divine in our soul, it is also this presence around us, in the world, just as inversely, transcendence is the inaccessibility of God, not only above us, in the Heavens, but also within us, in the depths of the heart.* (*At least a priori,…

We interpret the words “IMMANENT,” “immanence” and “IMMANENTism” according to the etymological meaning: immanens means “dwelling within.” The modern philosophical interpretation, starting with Spinoza, is abusive; immanence is neither identity, nor negation of transcendence; nor epistemological subjectivism, of course. (GTUFS: SurveyME, Two Esoterisms)

By IMPIETY we mean, not the mere fact of not believing in God, but the fundamental tendency not to believe in Him; herein lies the whole difference between the “accident” and the “substance.” (GTUFS: PlayMasks, Prerogatives of the Human State)

Inspiration by the Holy Spirit does not mean that It is to replace human intelligence and free it from all its natural limitations, for that would be Revelation; INSPIRATION simply means that the Spirit guides man in accordance with the divine intention and on the basis of the capacities of the human receptacle. Were this…

It is a fact that too many authors – we would almost say: general opinion – attribute to gnosis what is proper to Gnosticism and to other counterfeits of the sophia perennis, and moreover make no distinction between the latter and the most freakish movements, such as spiritualism, theosophism and the pseudo-esoterisms that saw the…

With jnana, “HUMILITY” is awareness of the nothingness of the ego considered from the standpoint of its relativity; with bhakti, HUMILITY is self-abasement before the beauty of the Beloved everywhere present, self-annihilation before the Divine glory; with karma, the same virtue becomes the disinterested service of one’s neighbor, the humiliation of self for the sake…