Categoria: Perenialistas – Temático

For the Sufis, the “hypocrite” (munafiq) is not only the one who gives himself airs of piety in order to impress people, but in a general way, one who is profane, who does not draw all the consequences that are implied in the Dogma and the Law, hence the man who is not sincere, since…

Nothing is more false that the conventional opposition between “IDEALISM” and “realism”, which insinuates in general that the “ideal” is not “real”, and inversely; as if an ideal situated outside reality had the smallest value, and as if reality were always situated on a lower level than what may be called an “ideal”. Anyone who…

Intellectual: The word ‘INTELLECTUAL’ is used here as elsewhere by us as referring to the Intellect, it does not apply to the purely ‘mental’ speculations of logicians. (GTUFS: GnosisDW, Vicissitudes of Different Spiritual Temperaments) Intellectual Qualification / Faith: If INTELLECTUAL qualification is the discernment that is capable of passing from appearances to reality, from forms…

Intellectualism cannot fail to engender errors. It confers self-complacency and abolishes fear of God. It introduces a sort of worldliness into the intellectual domain. Its good side is that it may speak of truth; its bad side is the manner in which it speaks of it. It replaces the virtues it lacks by sophistries. It…

One of the keys to the understanding of our true nature and of our ultimate destiny is the fact that the things of this world never measure up to the real range of our INTELLIGENCE. Our INTELLIGENCE is made for the Absolute, or it is nothing. Among all the INTELLIGENCEs of this world the human…

Intelligent Error: It is only too evident that mental effort does not automatically give rise to the perception of the real; the most capable mind may be the vehicle of the grossest error. The paradoxical phenomenon of even a “brilliant” intelligence being the vehicle of error is explained first of all by the possibility of…

The primacy of INTENTION stems from the fact that one and the same action – we are not saying every action – may be good or bad according to the INTENTION, whereas the inverse is not true: an INTENTION is not good or bad according to the action. It is not actions that matter primarily,…

Intentionism and sincerism go hand-in-hand; what the first has in common with the second is that it flies to defend all things blameworthy, whether extravagant and pernicious or simply mediocre and vulgar; in short, to be “sincere,” is to show oneself “as one is,” unconditionally and cynically, hence counter to any effort to be what…

The fact that the subject amounts to a dimension of the object, rather as time is in a sense a dimension of space – this fact shows how important the perspective of “INWARDNESS” is in the face of God; that is, the accentuation of inward, intrinsic, profound qualities, and by way of consequence the concern…

“(…) In ISLAM, two ‘religions’ meet, combine, and sometimes confront one another: the outward religion –that of Revelation and Law– and the religion of the Heart, of Intellection, of immanent Liberty; they combine inasmuch as the outward religion proceeds from the inward religion, but they are in opposition inasmuch as the inward and essential religion…

JALWAH is the concrete awareness of the Divine Omnipresence, an awareness which makes it possible to understand the “language of the birds”, metaphorically speaking, and to hear the universal praise. (GTUFS: EsoterismPW, The Mystery of the Veil)

The Word which determines Substance, reveals itself to the latter. Macrocosmically, it is the Word which manifests itself in the Universe as the divine Spirit; microcosmically, it is the Real Presence affirming itself at the center of the soul, radiating outwards and finally transmuting and absorbing it. (GTUFS: GnosisDW, Mysteries of Christ and of the…

Jnanic Perspective: The JNANIC perspective, which confines itself to maintaining the soul in the virginity of our fundamental being, is impersonal from the fact that it sees virtue, not in human initiatives, but in an existential quality, namely the primordial and innocent nature of creation; but this fundamental being, or this theomorphic nature, represents an…

Just as principial Maya is bipolarized into Purusha and Prakriti, so manifested Maya comprises two poles, namely the active and imaginative demiurge and the passive but efficient Substance; it is this materia prima which is the tohu wa bohu of Genesis or the KHAOS – the “void” – of Hesiod’s theogony. Let it be noted…

Liberty . . . is limited to the extent that it is relative, but it is really LIBERTY in so far as it is LIBERTY and not something else. (GTUFS: LogicT, Rationalism, Real and Apparent) What then is LIBERTY considered independently of free creatures, or of the particular case of a free creature? It is…

It is not for nothing that “LOGIC” (logikos) comes from “Logos,” which derivation indicates, in a symbolical fashion at least, that LOGIC – the mental reflection of ontology – cannot, in its substance, be bound up with human arbitrariness; that, on the contrary, it is a quasi-pneumatoLOGICal phenomenon in the sense that it results from…

Love is on the one hand our tendency towards God – the tendency of the accident towards the Substance – and on the other hand our consciousness of “myself” in the “other,” and of the “other” in ourselves; it is also the sense of beauty, above us and around us and in our own soul.…

Pneumatic / Psychic / Hylic: The “pneumatic” is the man in whom the sense of the sacred takes precedence over other tendencies, whereas in the case of the “psychic” it is the attraction of the world and the accentuation of the ego that take priority, without mentioning the “HYLIC” or “somatic” who sees in sensory…

A man such as Aristotle provides a classic example of a qualification that is exclusively intellectual and, by this very fact, unilateral and necessarily limited, even on the level of his GENIUS, since perfect intellection ipso facto involves contemplation and interiorization. In the case of the Stagirite, the intelligence is penetrating but the tendency of…