Categoria: Perenialistas – Temático

The total cyclic dissolution that the Hindus call maha-pralaya, a dissolution that implies the annihilation of the entire Creation (samsara). (GTUFS: UnityReligions, Universality and Particular Nature of the Christian Religion) Mahapralaya / Pralaya: The difference between the “particular judgment” and the Last Judgment, or between death and the end of the world, consists in the…

Man is spirit incarnate; if he were only matter, he would be identified with the feet; if he were only spirit, he would be the head, that is, the Sky; he would be the Great Spirit. But the object of his existence is to be in the middle: it is to transcend matter while being…

Virgin NATURE is the art of God. (GTUFS: LogicT, Concerning the Love of God)

Nobility is made of elevation and compassion; by elevation it withdraws from things, and by compassion it comes back to them; but it also comes back to them by discernment and justice, for it is made not only of charity, but also of resistance, given the nature of the world in which it manifests itself.…

Nobleness (of soul): Nobleness of soul is to have the sense of the divine intentions, hence of the archetypes and essences, which readily reveal themselves to the noble and contemplative soul. (GTUFS: RootsHC, Pillars of Wisdom)

Nothing / Being: The notion of “NOTHING” is essentially a reference – obviously negative – to something possible or existent, otherwise it would be meaningless and even inconceivable. Indeed, “NOTHING” indicates by definition the absence of something: it excludes one or many objects, or all objects, according to context; to speak of an intrinsic “NOTHINGness,”…

Nothingness is, on the one hand, an intellectual notion and, on the other hand, a cosmic tendency; this notion of NOTHINGNESS is identical with that of impossibility; that is to say, NOTHINGNESS is total impossibility, whereas there do exist relative impossibilities, namely those which represent situations modifiable in principle. (GTUFS: DivineHuman, The Problem of Possibility)

By “OBJECTIVITY” must be understood not a knowledge that is limited to a purely empirical recording of data received from outside, but a perfect adequation of the knowing subject to the known object, which indeed is in keeping with the current meaning of the term. An intelligence or a knowledge is “objective” when it is…

The word “OCCULT” has its origin in the vires OCCULTae, the unseen forces of nature, and in the OCCULTa, the secrets relating to the ancient mysteries; in fact, however, modern OCCULTism is by and large no more than the study of extrasensory phenomena, one of the most hazardous of pursuits by reason of its wholly…

Orenda (Iroquois): The spiritual fluid of a human person. (GTUFS: FSun, The Symbolism of a Vestimentary Art)

Orthodoxy is the conformity of an idea – or of a form in general – to some revealed perspective, or, in other words, to some aspect of truth. (GTUFS: SPHF, Contours of the Spirit) Orthodoxy (criterion): When we say that a doctrine is providential, we mean by this that it is contained in its own…

Outward / Inward: For the Intellect or for the spiritual act conforming to it, there is no difference between the OUTWARD and the inward: the OUTWARD is also within, since the soul is everywhere the soul, on the macrocosmic scale as well as in the microcosm, while the inward for its part has an aspect…

(To believe that) God is all that exists, no more no less (GTUFS: HaveCenter, Degrees and Scope of Theism) In reality, PANTHEISM consists in the admission of a continuity between the Infinite and the finite; but this continuity can only be conceived if it is first admitted that there is a substantial identity between the…

Paradise, precisely, is above all a dimension which unites us to God . . . Paradise is a reflection of God and not a veil which conceals Him. (GTUFS: ChristIslam, Paradise as Theophany)

Passion / Pride: In the fallen nature of man there is a double infirmity and, spiritually speaking, a double obstacle: on the one hand PASSION, which draws man outside himself while at the same time compressing him, and on the other hand pride, which shuts man within himself, while at the same time dispersing him.…

The Path means return to the vision enjoyed by innocence, to the inward dimension where all things die and are reborn in the divine Unity – in that Absolute which, with its concomitances of equilibrium and inviolability, is the whole content of the human condition and the whole reason for its existence. (GTUFS: UIslam, The…

The word “PEOPLE” itself admits of two meanings: it denotes either the majority, as distinguished from the intellectual and aristocratic elite, or the total or integral collectivity, comprising the majority and the elite at one and the same time; in this last sense, it is self-evident that the government – apart from its celestial origin…

By “PHENOMENOLOGY” we simply mean the study of a category of phenomena, and not a particular philosophy which claims to resolve everything by observing or exploring in its fashion the phenomena that present themselves to one’s attention, without being able to account for the central and ungraspable phenomenon that is the mystery of subjectivity. (GTUFS:…

Philosophia Perennis: The term PHILOSOPHIA PERENNIS . . . signifies the totality of the primordial and universal truths – and therefore of the metaphysical axioms – whose formulation does not belong to any particular system. One could speak in the same sense of a religio perennis, designating by this term the essence of every religion;…

It should be possible to restore to the word “PHILOSOPHY” its original meaning: PHILOSOPHY – the “love of wisdom” – is the science of all the fundamental principles; this science operates with intuition, which “perceives,” and not with reason alone, which “concludes.” Subjectively speaking, the essence of PHILOSOPHY is certitude; for the moderns, on the…