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Human Facts is a fully revised translation of the French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.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 7
... 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.
... 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.
Page 8
... perfect because it exhausts infinite Truth on the level of mental logic, for this is impossible, but because it realizes a mental form capable of communicating a ray of this Truth to one who is intellectually fit to receive it; this is ...
... perfect because it exhausts infinite Truth on the level of mental logic, for this is impossible, but because it realizes a mental form capable of communicating a ray of this Truth to one who is intellectually fit to receive it; this is ...
Page 15
... perfect “ timeliness ” that comes from truth expressed with intelligence ; real wisdom does not fade with age any more than does real art . Concep- tualist relativism abolishes truth in order to set in its place a blind and heavy ...
... perfect “ timeliness ” that comes from truth expressed with intelligence ; real wisdom does not fade with age any more than does real art . Concep- tualist relativism abolishes truth in order to set in its place a blind and heavy ...
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