Motto
In our days, when the monstrous state of confusion that has engulfed humankind seems to have thrown individuals and societies in complete disarray, one feels almost embarrassed to bring into discussion lofty spiritual matters which may be regarded as inconsequential and naïvely idealistic compared to the grave human problems that our terrestrial existence raises every day. Two thousand years ago, the Bible foretold these circumstances for which René Guénon provided a more recent account: “... the inferior judges the superior, ignorance sets bounds to wisdom, error prevails over truth, the human is substituted for the divine, Earth has priority over Heaven, the individual sets the measure for all things and claims to dictate to the Universe laws drawn entirely from his relative and fallible reason (from “Individualism”, in “The Crisis of Modern World”).
Saturday, August 30, 2008
The Material Obstacle
For many of our contemporaries, reality is like a room where someone placed a huge rock which takes almost all the space of the room. The room has been exquisitely decorated by the Creator but the onlooker would only see the rock and never the beauty that surrounds it which is masked by a solid, impenetrable and immovable material obstacle.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
A Metaphysical View of the Divine
From the strictly human standpoint, which alone is what religions as such have in view, “God” could not be the Absolute as such, for the Absolute has no interlocutor; we may say, however, that God is the hypostatic Face turned towards the human world, or towards a particular human world; in other words, God is Divinity which particularizes itself in view of man and insofar as it more or less takes on the countenance of a particular humanity.
Frithjof Schuon
In the Face of the Absolute (The Decisive Intuition)
Frithjof Schuon
In the Face of the Absolute (The Decisive Intuition)
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