"J’ignore qui a trouvé la bulle de savon —
Ni Copernic, ni Paracelse
Ni un philosophe plein d’idées —
Elle vient sans doute du monde féerique des enfants,
Tout en étant pleine de sagesse. Car elle montre
Comment une volée d’âmes montent au Ciel,
Ou comment les grâces en descendent sur nous,
Vivifiant de Lumière céleste le monde terrestre;
De même comment l’âme s’embrase en ses couleurs —
Chacune pour soi — et va son chemin."
Frithjof Schuon
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”).