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Human Facts is a fully revised translation of the French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.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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... speaking such coincidences have no value in either philosophy or art; no philosophy engenders sanctity. * * * There are no metaphysical or cosmological reasons why in exceptional cases direct intellection should not occur in men who ...
... speaking such coincidences have no value in either philosophy or art; no philosophy engenders sanctity. * * * There are no metaphysical or cosmological reasons why in exceptional cases direct intellection should not occur in men who ...
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... speak about civilizations they are all too ready to emphasize certain fragmentary aspects, whether for good or ill: they forget that Chinese civilization is not the deforming of women's feet and that a hospital or a road is not a ...
... speak about civilizations they are all too ready to emphasize certain fragmentary aspects, whether for good or ill: they forget that Chinese civilization is not the deforming of women's feet and that a hospital or a road is not a ...
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... speak of the wise use of machines, of their serving the human spirit, for it is in the very nature of mechani- zation to reduce men to slavery and devour them utterly, leaving them with nothing human, nothing beyond the animal, nothing ...
... speak of the wise use of machines, of their serving the human spirit, for it is in the very nature of mechani- zation to reduce men to slavery and devour them utterly, leaving them with nothing human, nothing beyond the animal, nothing ...
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