Categoria: Perenialistas – Temático

Evolutionism, …, provides a typical example of REASONING in the absence of sufficient premises. Modern scientism starts from the gratuitous and crude axiom that there is no reality outside sensorial, or virtually sensorial experience with the highly relative exception of psychology, a very limited domain which, in any case, can be reduced philosophically to a…

All this shows that, to say the least, the word “philosopher” in itself has nothing restrictive about it, and that one cannot legitimately impute to this word any of the vexing associations of ideas that it may elicit; usage applies this word to all thinkers, including eminent metaphysicians – some Sufis consider Plato and other…

Intelligence, by which we comprehend the Doctrine, is either the intellect or reason; reason is the instrument of the intellect, it is through reason that man comprehends the natural phenomena around him and within himself, and it is through it that he is able to describe supernatural things — parallel to the means of expression…

Intelligence, by which we comprehend the Doctrine, is either the intellect or reason; reason is the instrument of the intellect, it is through reason that man comprehends the natural PHENOMENA around him and within himself, and it is through it that he is able to describe supernatural things — parallel to the means of expression…

Relatively Absolute: We have alluded more than once to the seemingly contradictory, but metaphysically useful and even indispensable, idea of the “RELATIVELY absolute,” which is absolute in relation to what it rules, while pertaining to relativity in relation to the “Pure Absolute.” (GTUFS: FaceA, Islam and Consciousness of the Absolute) There could never be any…

The essential act of faith is the REMEMBRANCE of God; “to remember”, in Latin, is recordare, that is re-cordare, which indicates a return to the heart, cor. (GTUFS: EsoterismPW, The Way of Oneness)

Subject / Object: As for the categories “subject” and “OBJECT,” we shall begin by taking note of the fact that the OBJECT is reality in itself, or reality envisaged in connection with its perceptibility, whereas the subject is consciousness in itself, or consciousness envisaged in relation to its faculty of perception. In both cases there…

Sufic Onomatology: “The First” (Al-Awwal): the Supreme Principle insofar as It is “before” Manifestation, and insofar as its Infinitude “desires” its Radiation. Mystery of the Origin, of the primordial Perfection. “The Last” (Al-Akhir): The Principle insofar as It is “after” Manifestation, and insofar as its Absoluteness “desires” its Unicity. Mystery of the final Good, of…

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…

It is from this unintelligible – and in a sense “absurd”- aspect of Maya or of Prakriti (NA: This does not mean that these two ideas are synonymous, but their juxtaposition signifies that Prakriti, the ontological “Substance”, is the divine ” femininity” of Maya. The MASCULINE aspect is represented by the divine Names which, in…

It is all too readily believed that a metaphysical text is a creation of reason because it has the form of a logical demonstration, whereas reason in this case is but the means of transmission. There are mystics who are disinterested in a text because it is logical, that is, because they believe it is…

The Principle is the Absolute; that is to say that it is the absolutely REAL. It is the Absolute which excludes all contingency; but it is also the REALity of all that is real. Essays NATURE AND UNITY OF THE PRINCIPLE Perceiving the Self in intellectual discernment, we perceive objectively the Essence of our own…

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…

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…

Los Padres del siglo VIII, muy diferentes en esto a las autoridades religiosas del XV, y el XVI que traicionaron el arte cristiano abandonándolo a la impura pasión de los mundanos y a la imaginación ignorante de los profanos, tenían conciencia plena de la santidad de todos los medios de expresión de la tradición; en…

El hecho de que la perspectiva islámica no considera más que la Revelación como tal y no sus modos posibles, explica por qué esta perspectiva no atribuye a los MILAGROS de Cristo la importancia que le atribuye el Cristianismo: en efecto, todos los «Enviados», incluido Mahoma, han hecho MILAGROS (NA: mu’jizât) (NA: La mayoría de…

To say Beauty is to say Love; and it is known how important this idea of Love is in all RELIGIONS and all spiritual alchemies. The reason for this is that Love is the tendency towards Union: this tendency can be a movement, either towards the Immutable, the Absolute, or towards the Limitless, the Infinite;…

…El motivo de la prohibición de las artes plásticas y visuales entre los pueblos semíticos es precisamente impedir la desviación naturalista, peligro muy real para los hombres cuya mentalidad es más bien individualista y sentimental), y conduzca a éste, por el MISTERIO de la creación artística, hacia las orillas de su propia esencia divina. ……

Llamaremos finalmente la atención sobre el alcance verdaderamente fundamental y realmente universal de la invocación del Nombre divino; éste es, en el Cristianismo – como en el Budismo y en ciertas sectas iniciáticas hindúes – un Nombre del Verbo manifestado (NA: En este punto, se nos viene a la mente la invocación de Amida-Buddha y…