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Human Facts is a fully revised translation of the French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.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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... Metaphysics and Esoterism In the Face of the Absolute The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy To Have a Center Roots of the Human Condition Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty: Paintings by Frithjof Schuon Echoes of ...
... Metaphysics and Esoterism In the Face of the Absolute The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy To Have a Center Roots of the Human Condition Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty: Paintings by Frithjof Schuon Echoes of ...
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... —from a somewhat different point of view—that according to an ancient saying from India, “There is no right superior to that of truth.” F.S. 22 March 1988 I THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION 1 Metaphysical knowledge is one thing xi Preface.
... —from a somewhat different point of view—that according to an ancient saying from India, “There is no right superior to that of truth.” F.S. 22 March 1988 I THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION 1 Metaphysical knowledge is one thing xi Preface.
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A New Translation with Selected Letters Frithjof Schuon James S. Cutsinger. I THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION 1 Metaphysical knowledge is one thing and its actualization in Thought and Civilization.
A New Translation with Selected Letters Frithjof Schuon James S. Cutsinger. I THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION 1 Metaphysical knowledge is one thing and its actualization in Thought and Civilization.
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... Metaphysical knowledge is like a divine seed in the heart; thoughts represent only faint glimmers of it. The imprint of the divine Light in human darkness, the passage from the Infinite to the finite, the contact between the Absolute ...
... Metaphysical knowledge is like a divine seed in the heart; thoughts represent only faint glimmers of it. The imprint of the divine Light in human darkness, the passage from the Infinite to the finite, the contact between the Absolute ...
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... metaphysically a proof of the Infinite. * * * “Theological progress”: this is to make explicit what earlier theolo ... metaphysical doctrine is the mental incarnation of a universal truth. A philosophical system is a rational attempt ...
... metaphysically a proof of the Infinite. * * * “Theological progress”: this is to make explicit what earlier theolo ... metaphysical doctrine is the mental incarnation of a universal truth. A philosophical system is a rational attempt ...
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