Categoria: Perenialistas – Temático

A pernicious error that must be pointed out here – one which seems to be axiomatic with the false gurus of East and West – is what could be designated by the term “Realizationism”: it is claimed that only “realization” counts and that “theory” is nothing, as if man were not a thinking being and…

Reason is the faculty of knowing indirectly in the absence of a direct vision and with the help of points of reference. (GTUFS: LogicT, Evidence and Mystery) Reason / Intellect: Reason is formal by its nature and formalistic in its operations; it proceeds by coagulations, by alternatives and by exclusions – or, it can be…

Relativism engenders the spirit of REBELLION and is at the same time its fruit. The spirit of REBELLION is not, like holy anger, a passing state and directed against some worldly abuse; on the contrary, it is a chronic malady directed against Heaven and against all that represents Heaven or is a reminder of it.…

Reforming Man: Reforming man means binding him again to Heaven, reestablishing the broken link; it means tearing him away from the reign of the passions, from the cult of matter, quantity and cunning, and reintegrating him into the world of the spirit and serenity, we would even say: into the world of sufficient reason. (GTUFS:…

Relativism sets out to reduce every element of absoluteness to a relativity, while making a quite illogical exception in favor of this reduction itself. In effect, RELATIVISM consists in declaring it to be true that there is no such thing as truth, or in declaring it to be absolutely true that nothing but the relatively…

Relativity has essentially two dimensions: distance and difference. It is by virtue of the “vertical” dimension of distance that in divinis Being becomes crystallized, so to speak, on this side of Beyond-Being and that, in consequence of this hypostatic polarization, the world becomes separated from God; and it is again by virtue of this dimension…

Religere / Tradere: The first of these terms has the advantage of expressing an intrinsic reality (RELIGERE = “to bind” the earthly with the heavenly), and not simply an extrinsic reality like the second (tradere = “to hand down” scriptural, ritual and legal elements). (GTUFS: EsoterismPW, The Supreme Commandment)

Religio / Traditio: Religio is that which “binds” (religat) man to Heaven and engages his whole being; as for the word “traditio”, it is related to a more outward and sometimes fragmentary reality, besides suggesting a retrospective outlook. At its birth a RELIGIOn “binds” men to Heaven from the moment of its first revelation, but…

Plenitude is that which brings together a maximum of homogeneous aspects, or which introduces totality into form. (GTUFS: GnosisDW, Seeing God Everywhere)

The PNEUMATIC is a man who identifies a priori with his spiritual substance and thus always remains faithful to himself; he is not a mask unaware of his scope, as is the man enclosed in accidentality. (GTUFS: PlayMasks, The Play of Masks) In practice, it suffices to know that to say “yes” to God, while…

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…

(The) consciousness of the profound homogeneity of the created world and the sense of universal solidarity which results therefrom. (GTUFS: FSun, A Metaphysic of Virgin Nature)

POSSIBILITY is none other than the Infinitude of the Real. (GTUFS: DivineHuman, The Problem of POSSIBILITY) By definition, a possibility wants to be what it is, its nature is its will to be; God creates only by “giving existence” to that which wants to be this or that. Possibilities are differentiated revelations of Being; they…

The Supreme PRINCIPLE is pure Substance, which is to say It is without accident. Without accident, that is: without contingency, without limit and without imperfection; contingency being opposed to Absoluteness as the accident is opposed to the Substance; and similarly, limit being opposed to Infinitude, and imperfection to Perfection, or the Potentiality of Good. (GTUFS:…

Symbolist Mind: The symbolist vision of the cosmos is a priori a spontaneous perspective that bases itself on the essential nature – or the metaphysical transparency – of phenomena, rather than cutting these off from their prototypes . . . The symbolist MIND sees appearances in their connection with essences . . . This means…

Transformist evolutionism offers a patent example of “horizontality” in the domain of the natural sciences, owing to the fact that it puts a biological evolution of “ascending” degrees in place of a cosmogonic emanation of “descending” degrees. (NA: We understand the term “emanation” in the Platonic sense: the starting point remains transcendent, hence unaffected, whereas…

According to Pythagoras, wisdom is a priori the knowledge of the stellar world and of all that is situated above us; sophia being the wisdom of the gods, and philosophia that of men. For Heraclitus, the philosopher is one who applies himself to the knowledge of the profound nature of things; whereas for PLATO, philosophy…

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…

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…