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Human Facts is a fully revised translation of the French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.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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... ignorant of its implicit premises, which are clear to the author of the proof. To prove the Absolute is either the easiest or the most difficult of things, depending upon the intellectual conditions of the environ- ment ...
... ignorant of its implicit premises, which are clear to the author of the proof. To prove the Absolute is either the easiest or the most difficult of things, depending upon the intellectual conditions of the environ- ment ...
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... ignorance, not in proportion to knowledge. For the sage every star, every flower, is metaphysically a proof of the Infinite. * * * “Theological progress”: this is to make explicit what earlier theolo- gians found no need to say or to ...
... ignorance, not in proportion to knowledge. For the sage every star, every flower, is metaphysically a proof of the Infinite. * * * “Theological progress”: this is to make explicit what earlier theolo- gians found no need to say or to ...
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... ignorance . * * In order to reach the truth it is necessary to awaken in oneself if pos- sible the intellectual faculty , not to strive to “ explain ” realities one does not “ see ” with the reason ; now most philosophies start from a ...
... ignorance . * * In order to reach the truth it is necessary to awaken in oneself if pos- sible the intellectual faculty , not to strive to “ explain ” realities one does not “ see ” with the reason ; now most philosophies start from a ...
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