by Sabra Vidali | Jun 4, 2019
Islam starts precisely from the idea that the infinitely transcendent God is at the same time infinitely close, – “closer than your jugular artery”, – so that he surrounds us and penetrates us, in the religious experience, like a kind of...
by Sabra Vidali | Jun 4, 2019
By the expression “Perennial religion”, Frithjof Schuon specifies, in the Introduction, that he wishes to indicate the inexhaustible and ever-present aspect of the divine Truth and the totality of the human commitment it demands. The first purpose of the...
by Sabra Vidali | Jun 4, 2019
“The caste prevails over the race, because the spirit prevails over the form….. However, it is impossible to admit that races mean nothing apart from their physical characteristics, because if it is true that formal constraints are not absolute, forms must...
by Sabra Vidali | May 23, 2019
“Cathedrals often, and perhaps always, contain intentional irregularities that mean that God alone is perfect and capable of perfection; that human works, like man himself, are necessarily imperfect. And this applies to the whole universe, therefore to all that...
by Sabra Vidali | May 23, 2019
All spiritual teaching presupposes an oral and personal modality which is the vehicle of a transmission and a “soul to soul” relationship in the absence of which the spiritual path would risk remaining too theoretical and abstract. Schuon was a spiritual...
