Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts: A New Translation with Selected LettersThis new edition of Frithjof Schuon's Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts is a fully revised translation of the French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings. |
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Page ix
... doctrines, symbols, sacred art, and spiritual practices of the world's religions. Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts, Schuon's third major work, was published in Paris in 1953 by Cahiers du Sud under the title Perspectives ...
... doctrines, symbols, sacred art, and spiritual practices of the world's religions. Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts, Schuon's third major work, was published in Paris in 1953 by Cahiers du Sud under the title Perspectives ...
Page x
... doctrines, important philosophers or spiritual authorities, and the sacred Scriptures of the world's religions, but a citation or other reference is not often provided. A series of editor's notes, organized by chapter and tagged to the ...
... doctrines, important philosophers or spiritual authorities, and the sacred Scriptures of the world's religions, but a citation or other reference is not often provided. A series of editor's notes, organized by chapter and tagged to the ...
Page xi
... doctrine—the sophia perennis or, if one prefers, integral traditionalism—it seems to us that the present collection deserves to be preserved from loss for the reasons just mentioned. Perhaps it would be worth adding that truth can never ...
... doctrine—the sophia perennis or, if one prefers, integral traditionalism—it seems to us that the present collection deserves to be preserved from loss for the reasons just mentioned. Perhaps it would be worth adding that truth can never ...
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... doctrines. They perceive neither the realities to which these doctrines refer nor the unexpressed things that are there ... doctrine is the mental incarnation of a universal truth. A philosophical system is a rational attempt to resolve ...
... doctrines. They perceive neither the realities to which these doctrines refer nor the unexpressed things that are there ... doctrine is the mental incarnation of a universal truth. A philosophical system is a rational attempt to resolve ...
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... created plane while denying on the one hand the necessary imperfection of this plane and on the other the transcendence of pure Perfection. Now a doctrinal formulation is not perfect because it exhausts 7 Thought and Civilization.
... created plane while denying on the one hand the necessary imperfection of this plane and on the other the transcendence of pure Perfection. Now a doctrinal formulation is not perfect because it exhausts 7 Thought and Civilization.
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