"...every sort of 'worldliness', when added by circumstances, is an opening for the spirit of doubt and the denial of the supernatural. Experience goes to prove that no people, however contemplative , is able in the long run to withstand the psychological effects of the modern discoveries, a fact that clearly demonstrates their 'abnormality' in relation to human nature in general; in Europe, the hostility of medieval Church towards the new astronomical theses, does not appear, in the light of subsequent events, to have been altogether unreasonable, to say the least. It is evident that no kind of knowledge is bad in principle or in itself; but many forms of knowledge can be harmful in practice as soon as they cease to correspond to the hereditary experience of man and are imposed on him without his being prepared to receive them; the human soul finds difficulty in coping with facts that are not offered to its experience in the ordinary course of nature".
Frithjof Schuon
In the Face of the Absolute—Preface
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”).