Categoria: Perenialistas – Temático

Metaphysical thought essentially presupposes intellection, or let us say intellectual intuition; the latter is not a matter of sentiment, of course, but of pure intelligence. Without this intuition, metaphysical speculation is reduced either to an opaque dogmatism or to an imprecise ratiocination; and quite evidently, speculative thought deprived of its intuitive foundation would be unable…

…Pero consideremos ahora el relato en lo concerniente a Urías el jeteo: tampoco aquí debe ser juzgada la forma de actuar de David desde el punto de vista moral, porque, sin hablar siquiera de que la muerte heroica frente al enemigo no es precisamente perjudicial para los fines últimos de un guerrero ni de que,…

What we blame in those who are contemptuous of “metaphysical ratiocination” and the “subject-object opposition” is not so much a given perspective as the exaggeration resulting from it or nourished by it. Excess is in the nature of man; pious exaggeration is inevitable on the whole, as is the sectarian mentality. We do not remember…

Metaphysical thought essentially presupposes intellection, or let us say intellectual INTUITION; the latter is not a matter of sentiment, of course, but of pure intelligence. Without this INTUITION, metaphysical speculation is reduced either to an opaque dogmatism or to an imprecise ratiocination; and quite evidently, speculative thought deprived of its intuitive foundation would be unable…

Music distinguishes essences as such and does not, like poetry, distinguish their degrees of manifestation. Music can express the quality of ‘fire’ without being able to specify – since it is not objective – whether it is question of visible fire, of passion, of fervour or the flame of mystic love, or of the universal…

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…

The desire to transcend the plane of logic is combined, in a certain sectarianism hostile to discursive expression, with the desire to transcend the “scission” between the subject and the object; now this complementary opposition does not prevent the known — whatever the situation of the knower — from being of the loftiest order. The…

In the Buddhist as well as the HINDU climate, one encounters a mystical altruism that protests against “seeking a selfish salvation”: one should not wish to save oneself, it seems, one should at the same time wish to save others, indeed everyone, at least according to one’s intention. Now a selfish salvation is a contradiction…

Just as the ether is present in each of the sensible elements, such as fire and water, and just as intelligence is present in each of the mental faculties, such as IMAGINATION and memory, so gnosis is necessarily present in each of the great religions, whether we grasp its traces or not. sophiaperennis: Gnosis Creation…

The content of the universal and primordial Doctrine is the following, expressed in Vedantic terms: “Brahma is Reality; the world is appearance; the soul is not other than Brahma.” These are the three great theses of integral metaphysics; one positive, one negative, one unitive. Let us specify that in the second affirmation, it is important…

But here also — in the face of these two Mysteries — there are the divergent options of those who make of every complementarity an alternative: some believe that everything has to fall from HEAVEN; others believe that everything can and must come from our own efforts. Now human intelligence, being theomorphic, possesses in principle…

The subjective and simple Principle, realized in the heart, presents itself first of all as immanent; but It is equally transcendent in relation to the empirical subject–the ego woven of IMAGES and tendencies–otherwise the ego as such would be identified with the absolute Subject, with the divine Self. Essays NATURE AND UNITY OF THE PRINCIPLE…

The Principle is essentially Consciousness, Power and Love, thus Life; Love encompasses Beauty, Goodness, Beatitude. These are the undifferentiated aspects of the ESSENCE or of the Principle; they are situated one within the other, each is container and each is content, without intrinsic differentiation. Essays NATURE AND UNITY OF THE PRINCIPLE Perceiving the Self in…

This is what KANT with his rationalistic ingenuousness did not foresee. According to him, every cognition which is not rational in the narrowest sense, is mere pretentiousness and fanciful enthusiasm (Schwärmerei); now, if there is anything pretentious it is this very opinion. Fantasy, arbitrariness and irrationality are not features of the Scholastics, but they certainly…

We have said that the driving force of the path of gnosis is intelligence; now it is far from being the case that this principle is applicable in a spiritual society – unless it is not very numerous – for in general, intelligence is largely inoperative once it is called upon to hold a collectivity…

If the Westerner – “free thinker” or not – has a tendency to “think for himself,” wrongly or rightly according to the case, this is due to distant causes; the Western mind expressed itself through Plato and Aristotle before having undergone the influence of Christian fideism, and even then, and from the very outset, it…

Syncretism / Eclecticism: Syncretism is never an affair of substance: it is an assembling of heterogeneous elements into a false unity, that is to say, into a unity without real synthesis; ECLECTICISM on the other hand is natural wherever different doctrines exist side by side, as is proved by the integration of Platonism or Aristotelianism…

Zen Koans: Verbal symbols calculated to provoke an ontological breach in our carapace of ignorance. (GTUFS: TreasuresB, Treasures of Buddhism) Formulas both meaningless and explosive, and intended to shatter the shell of mental habits that obstruct the vision of the Real. (GTUFS: SurveyME, Confessional Speculation: Intentions and Impasses) The KOAN is a formula by intention…

The content of the universal and primordial Doctrine is the following, expressed in Vedantic terms: “Brahma is Reality; the world is appearance; the soul is not other than Brahma.” These are the three great theses of integral metaphysics; one positive, one negative, one unitive. Let us specify that in the second affirmation, it is important…

…Por lo demás, el fidelista no puede negar totalmente el fenómeno de la intuición intelectual, sino que se guardará muy bien de relacionarlo con esta Revelación «naturalmente sobrenatural» e INMANENTE que es el Intelecto; … UTR: IX …El intelecto puro es el «Corán INMANENTE»; … FSCI 2 …este último se cristaliza en la forma del…