Categoria: Perenialistas – Temático

The modes are not always intelligible at first sight; for example, one might wonder what the relevance is of a discipline such as the Tea Ceremony, which combines ascesis with ART, while being materially based on manipulations that seem a priori unimportant, but are ennobled by their sacralization. First of all, one must take into…

The Tea Ceremony signifies that we ought to perform all the activities and manipulations of daily life according to primordial perfections, which is pure symbolism, pure consciousness of the Essential, perfect BEAUTY and self-mastery. The intention is basically the same in the craft initiations of the West — including Islam — but the formal foundation…

“One cannot help defining things, but care must be taken not to limit them too much in defining them.” (GTUFS: GTUFS: SophiaJ, Volume 1, Number 1, Summer 1995, Norms and Paradoxes in Spiritual Alchemy)

l’Absolu “In the ABSOLUTE, I am not, and you are not, and God (in His personal determination) is not, because He (the ABSOLUTE) is beyond the reach of all word and all thought.” {Sri Ramakrishna} (GTUFS: LSelf, A View of Yoga) The ABSOLUTE is not the ABSOLUTE inasmuch as it contains aspects, but inasmuch as…

Many notions that we call ‘ABSTRACT’ for reasons of convenience, because they lie outside our immediate daily experience, or which we describe as ABSTRACT provisionally to serve the needs of our logic, correspond to experiences that are deeper and more real than our own, experiences that are lived by the cosmic consciousness of which we…

ADOGMATISMe “Adogmatism” in reality is chiefly aimed at the mental crystallizations of partial truths and in no way confers carte blanche against Truth as such; if it closes the door against any fixation of half-truths, this does not mean that it opens the door to every error. For the modernistically minded spiritualist, this same ADOGMATISM…

esthétique By ‘integral AESTHETICS’ we mean in fact a science that takes account not only of sensible beauty but also of the spiritual foundations of this beauty, these foundations explaining the frequent connection between the arts and initiatic methods. (GTUFS: EsoterismPW, Foundation of an Integral Aesthetics)

…este reflejo, que es la Inteligencia divina manifestada, BUDDHI — en sufismo, Er-Ruh y El-Aql, o aun los cuatro arcángeles que, análogos a los Devas y a sus Shaktis, representan otros tantos aspectos o funciones de esta Inteligencia —, este reflejo, decimos, es el Espíritu Santo en tanto que El ilumina, inspira y santifica al…

Pero volvamos por un instante al cientificismo, puesto que juega un papel tan decisivo en la mentalidad contemporánea; no vemos por qué es necesario extasiarse ante los vuelos espaciales; los santos en sus éxtasis subían infinitamente más alto, y esto lo decimos no de modo ALEGÓRICO, sino en un sentido completamente concreto que podríamos calificar…

Si el pentagrama se aplica a Dios o al hombre, se aplica igualmente, de una manera nueva, al encuentro de lo humano y lo divino en el Avatâra; el simbolismo islámico nos suministra un explícito ejemplo de ello al describir el misterio del Profeta por medio de los cinco términos siguientes: el «Alabado» (NA: Muhammad),…

Volviendo a lo que decíamos de la comprensión de las ideas, podríamos comparar una noción teórica con la visión de un objeto: de la misma manera que esta visión no revela todos los aspectos posibles, es decir, la naturaleza integral del objeto, cuyo perfecto conocimiento no sería otro que la identidad con él, igualmente una…

Un ejemplo análogo es el de David, a quien el Corán reconoce, asimismo, la cualidad de Profeta, y a quien los Cristianos reconocen como uno de los más grandes santos de la Antigua Alianza; nos parece evidente que un santo no pueda cometer pecados – no decimos llevar a cabo las acciones – que se…

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…

Howbeit, if finally the West had need of that messianic and dramatic religion which is CHRISTIANITY, it is because the average European was an active type and an adventurer and not a contemplative like the Hindu; but the “Aryan” atavism had to resurface sooner or later, whence the Renaissance and modern rationalism. No doubt, CHRISTIANITY…

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…

God, being Unity, wishes to unite; infinite, He wishes to realize Union according to all possible modes, or at all DEGREES of the Possible. Wishing to unite, He separates to be able to unite; that is the function of Mâyâ. From this follows the creation of the world and, within the world, the realization of…

The Tea Ceremony signifies that we ought to perform all the activities and manipulations of daily life according to primordial perfections, which is pure symbolism, pure consciousness of the Essential, perfect beauty and self-mastery. The intention is basically the same in the craft initiations of the West — including Islam — but the formal foundation…