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Human Facts is a fully revised translation of the French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.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 xi
... Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts contains issues we did not address in our later books, notably on the subject of Christianity, the Vedānta, spiritual psychology, and the symbolism of colors; with regard to this psychology, it ...
... Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts contains issues we did not address in our later books, notably on the subject of Christianity, the Vedānta, spiritual psychology, and the symbolism of colors; with regard to this psychology, it ...
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... to objectify their own limitations. * * * A metaphysical doctrine is the mental incarnation of a universal truth. A philosophical system is a rational attempt to resolve certain 4 Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts.
... to objectify their own limitations. * * * A metaphysical doctrine is the mental incarnation of a universal truth. A philosophical system is a rational attempt to resolve certain 4 Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts.
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... have in the final analysis only a symbolic value—and pure Truth, which is identified with what “is” and thus embraces him who thinks. 2 A philosophy that sets out to be a method 8 Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts.
... have in the final analysis only a symbolic value—and pure Truth, which is identified with what “is” and thus embraces him who thinks. 2 A philosophy that sets out to be a method 8 Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts.
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... spiritual setting everything is in question, for every argument is open to attack from the outside, there being no such thing as an absolute form. Philosophies of knowledge assume in practice the function of reli- gion, and yet they ...
... spiritual setting everything is in question, for every argument is open to attack from the outside, there being no such thing as an absolute form. Philosophies of knowledge assume in practice the function of reli- gion, and yet they ...
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