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	Perennial Philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The concept of perennial philosophy is the fundamental tenet of the Traditionalist School, formalized in the writings of 20th century metaphysicians René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon.
		According to the tenets of the perennial philosophy, humans in many cultures and eras have experienced and recorded similar perceptions about the nature of reality, the self, the world, and the meaning and purpose of existence.
		Rudiments of the Perennial Philosophy may be found among the traditional lore of primitive peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions (The Perennial Philosophy, p.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perennial_Philosophy (803 words)

	An Interview with S.H.Nasr
		JPS: The traditional, or perennial, philosophy of which you are a well-known proponent reserves a privileged place for the sacred scriptures of the religious traditions of the world.
		Perennial philosophy, on the other hand, looks upon the scriptures as revelations from God and believes that in the inner dimension, the esoteric dimension, of scriptures is contained the perennial wisdom with which the perennial philosophy is concerned.
		Anyway, as far as philosophy is concerned, it began to relativize these matters, and in the nineteenth century sociology and the positivism of Auguste Comte and these people tried to reduce all religious truth to consequences of a social situation-socially determined, culturally determined.
	www.philosophyandscripture.org /Issue2-1/SH_Nasr/sh_nasr.html (2580 words)

	Perennial Philosophy: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Perennial Philosophy is a term that is often used as a synonym for Sanatana Dharma Hinduism quick summary:
		Philosophy (from a combination of the greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom), as a practice, aims at some kind of understanding, knowledge...
		(was reintroduced in contemporary philosophy by the philosopher and psychologist franz brentano...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/perennial_philosophy.htm (659 words)

	The Perennial Philosophy, Aldous Huxley - HarperCollins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds.
		Rudiments of the Perennial Philosophy may be found among the traditionary lore of primitive peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions.
		The Perennial Philosophy is primarily concerned with the one, divine Reality substantial to the manifold world of things and lives and minds.
	www.harpercollins.com /authorintro/catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=006057058X (770 words)

	MODERN PHILOSOPHY: The Philosophy of Rationalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"Philosophy is a perfect knowledge of all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts." He seeks a system of thought that possesses the certainty of mathematics independent of Scholastic tradition and theological dogma.
		Gottfried W. von Leibniz (picture), who had a mind of encyclopedic culture, was born in Leipzig where he acquired during his early studies a profound knowledge of philosophy itself and of the history of medieval and modern philosophy and of the mathematical sciences.
		His philosophy opens to the mind new vistas of philosophic syntheses, and is an invaluable aid to the understanding of later systems.
	radicalacademy.com /adiphilrationalism.htm (3532 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 43, No. 2 - July 1986 - EDITORIAL - Christianity and Perennial Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The perennial philosophy is a religious worldview which, like all worldviews, involves a particular understanding of reality, including the divine, and the place of humanity in reality.
		In the Gnostic version of the perennial philosophy, the origin of the world is the result of a mythic accident or misunderstanding.
		As a result, many are drawn today to the perennial philosophy in these groups and also to the forms of Christianity in which the perennial philosophy is dominant, in particular the mystical traditions.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1986/v43-2-criticscorner1.htm (3605 words)

	Mateus Soares de Azevedo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He has written and translated twelve books on the Perennial Philosophy, and the mystical dimensions of Christianity and Islam.
		He holds a Masters degree in History of Religions from the University of São Paulo, with a thesis on the relevance of the Perennial Philosophy for contemporary thought.
		He is also the author of dozen of essays and articles dealing with the importance of traditional religion and spirituality in the contemporary world, some of them translated from the original Portuguese into English, French and Spanish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mateus_Soares_de_Azevedo (316 words)

	"The Perennial Philosophy" by W. T. S. Thackara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thus we may see that the principal aim of Greek philosophy originally, like Buddhism and Christianity, was the perfection of love and wisdom as a means to becoming one with the source of life.
		The idea of a perennial philosophy, of a common denominator rather, a highest common factor -- forming the basis of truth in the world's manifold religious, philosophic, and scientific systems of thought, goes back thousands of years at least.
		Steuch described the perennial philosophy as the originally revealed absolute truth made available to man before his fall, completely forgotten in that lapse, and only gradually regained in fragmentary form in the subsequent history of human thought.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/world/general/ge-wtst.htm (1193 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Philosophy of Seyyed Hussein Nasr is a rich work that addresses certain aspects of the Perennial Philosophy of the Traditionalist school, including the metaphysics, the ontology (the Great Chain of Being) and basic assumptions.
		I think he has a point from the perspective of one who seeks Perennial Philosophy in a discursive manner, but from the perspective of the Traditionalist school, this Philosophy is hard-wired in the very nature of our being and is only attained to through genuine spiritual realization, in which case the Philosophy becomes objectified.
		Because Nasr's truly holistic worldview necessitates the mutual dependence of religion and philosophy, the absence of a critical essay questioning the legitimacy of Nasr's perennial philosophy from a theologically Islamic vantage point, (since that is the tradition through which he speaks), can't but be seen as a deficiency in an otherwise comprehensive collection of articles.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0812694139 (1963 words)

	Perennial Philosophy \| 98-057
		The perennial philosophy states that it is possible for man to discover the transcendent part of himself, the divine and eternal core, and that this divine essence is recognized as what we have always been.
		(The term Perennial Philosophy comes from the title of a book written by Aldous Huxley.) “Tat tvam asi” (thou art that) is a Sanskrit statement which represents the reality to which these sages point.
		The Perennial Philosophy is one of living life with an aim of understanding the meaning of that life.
	www.andrew.cmu.edu /user/ntv/perennial.html (2224 words)

	The Perennial Tradition--Introduction
		Non-Perennialist books on philosophy, religion, mysticism, or the occult are the results of teachers of a specific era borrowing from the ideas and practices of former thinkers and creating a syncretism of doctrines and procedures which they then represent as their own new system.
		The conception that the Perennial Tradition is the single stream of initiatory teaching flowing through all the original, authentic expressions of the great religions and philosophies does not point to an indiscriminate syncretism or a vacuous eclecticism.
		According to the Perennial Tradition, spiritual development is a step-by-step process which must occur over a period of time--unlike gaining intellectual comprehension which can occur in one reading (or several readings) of a chapter or an entire book.
	www.hermes-press.com /Perennial_Tradition/PTintroduction.htm (2757 words)

	The Perennial Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The philosophia perennis or Perennial Philosophy affirms that a direct insight into the nature of Reality is a universally human possibility -- whether it be gained after practice of spiritual disciplines and study of scriptures or through a wholly unanticipated illuminating experience of union with God or the Ultimate.
		To call this perennial is to say that such an insight reappears in diverse times and places, not limited to any particular culture, class, or community.
		In other words, the term philosophia perennis is intended to describe a philosophy that has been formulated by those who have experienced direct communion with God or the Ultimate.
	mac.abc.se /home/onesr/ez/mx/PerennialPhilosophy.html (320 words)

	Esoteric and Perennial Philosophy - Bibliography
		More recently, widespread interest was generated by the rise of comparative religion and psychology (particularly William James) at the end of the 19th century and by various movements including theosophy, Anthroposophy and the Alice Bailey teachings.
		A common thread running through esoteric and perennial philosophy is the assumption that knowledge can be acquired through intellectual intuition, not simply by means of reason and the senses.
		The introduction by Nasr is masterly and there are nine parts: religion and revelation, the study of religions, the nature of reality, art and the spiritual significance of beauty, man, the spiritual life, eschatology and the afterlife, criticism of the modern world, spiritual impressions.
	www.scimednet.org /bibliography/philosophy_esoteric.htm (1198 words)

	Tree of Knowledge: Politics
		The Perennial Philosophy was intended to show the universality of that core truth behind the multitude of names and forms which the religious impulse--the search for God--has taken throughout history.
		The spiritual foundations of America are wholly congruent with the perennial philosophy, which is the highest wisdom known to humanity.
		If the perennial philosophy articulates that toward which humanity is evolving--enlightenment--then America represents the best political means devised so far to create societal circumstances for nurturing, and even hastening, human evolution to enlightenment.
	www.21stcenturyradio.com /t-politics-c2-patriotwhite.html (7318 words)

	On the Nature of a Post-Metaphysical Spirituality: Response to Habermas and Weis
		However, that does not mean that all of the conclusions of perennial philosophy are necessarily invalid; it only means that they have to be re-assessed to include a modern and postmodern perspective and reconstructed in the light of Spirit's own ongoing evolution and development.
		And yes, I used to be an unabashed subscriber to the notion of a perennial philosophy (until roughly, as you say, around 1983 or so--almost twenty years ago).
		And what the perennial philosophy did with the limitations and lacunae in its worldview was to fill those vacancies in understanding with metaphysical assertions.
	wilber.shambhala.com /html/misc/habermas/followup.cfm/xid,915481/yid,75734439 (3366 words)

	Ken Wilber Online: Ken Wilber Online: Chapter 1 from The Eye of the Spirit
		So overwhelmingly widespread is the perennial philosophy--the details of which I will explain in a moment--that it is either the single greatest intellectual error ever to appear in humankind's history--an error so colossally widespread as to literally stagger the mind--or it is the single most accurate reflection of reality yet to appear.
		The central claim of the perennial philosophy is that men and women can grow and develop (or evolve) all the way up the hierarchy to Spirit itself, therein to realize a "supreme identity" with Godhead--the ens perfectissimum toward which all growth and evolution yearns.
		But as used by the perennial philosophy--and indeed, as used in modern psychology, evolutionary theory, and systems theory--a hierarchy is simply a ranking of orders of events according to their holistic capacity.
	wilber.shambhala.com /html/books/eyspir_chapter.cfm/xid,5038958/yid,95447535 (6092 words)

	Perennial Philosophy
		The Perennial Philosophy in the form of myth, oracular utterance, direct revelation, and a golden chain of teachers, is guiding mankind towards Wisdom, for: "Philosophy is the purification and perfection of human life."
		The essential element of the Perennial Philosophy is not man-made, or of one place or culture.
		The word "philosophy" is the key that opens the doorway out of this particular fallacy for philosophy is literally the love of wisdom; it originates in the Love, Wisdom and Power of the Divine Ground of the universe.
	www.prometheustrust.co.uk /Meadow_2/Perennial_Philosophy/perennial_philosophy.html (4269 words)

	SpiritSite.com Aldous Huxley The Perennial Philosophy
		Excerpted from The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley.
		In studying the Perennial Philosophy we can begin either at the bottom, with practice and morality; or at the top, with a consideration of metaphysical truths; or, finally, in the middle, at the focal point where mind and matter, action and thought have their meeting place in human psychology.
		The psychology of the Perennial Philosophy has its source in metaphysics and issues logically in a characteristic way of life and system of ethics.
	www.spiritsite.com /writing/aldhux/part1.htm (334 words)

	Microdutch \| Aldous Huxley Online - The Perennial Philosophy
		The second doctrine of the Perennial Philosophy--that it is possible to know the Divine Ground by a direct intuition higher than discursive reasoning--is to be found in all the great religions of the world.
		That is why most statements of the Perennial Philosophy have included another doctrine, affirming the existence of one or more human Incarnations of the Divine Ground, by whose mediation and grace the worshipper is helped to achieve his goal--that unitive knowledge of the Godhead, which is man’s eternal life and beatitude.
		All the elements of this philosophy are present, as we have seen, in the traditional religions.
	www.microdutch.org /guru/Huxley-Online/perennial.html (2876 words)

	Cinnamon Swirl: The Perennial Philosophy
		The Perennial Philosophy is also separate from the scientific search for Truth, despite innuendos of similarity in modern quantum mechanics and cosmology-- recall all those popular physics books with "God" in the title.
		Such is the quest of the followers of The Perennial Philosophy.
		Very intriguing, especially for a physics ex-pat who is finally starting to appreciate the value of the spiritual dimension of life, and is starting to be able to differentiate among various forms of that dimension.
	www.mindspring.com /~kimall/cinnamon/2005/06/perennial-philosophy.html (583 words)

	Emerson and the Perennial Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is the first teaching of Emerson’s philosophy, and the first teaching of something much larger than Emerson’s philosophy, something that has been called the perennial philosophy, or liberal platonism.
		The perennial philosophy emerges anywhere religion is a matter of personal insight rather than received texts, a matter of personal experience rather than group ritual.
		The social imperative of the American transcendentalist version of the perennial philosophy is this: what I find necessary for myself, I cannot withhold from all others; more, I cannot rest in my possession of, say, freedom until all others are free.
	www.firstparish.org /richardson.html (2299 words)

	The Perennial Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Perennial Philosophy, the Sophia Perennis, is the knowledge of the world in its essence, as it really is; it is the truth that makes possible clarity and serenity, awareness of things as they are, so that we can live meaningful lives.
		The Sophia Perennis connects us to the Divine, to the sacred in the world, and to an awareness of the Goodness, Beauty, and Love that is everywhere in creation.
		Sophia has two possible origins, one timeless and the other temporal; the first is "vertical" and discontinuous, and the second, "horizontal" and continuous; in other words, the first is like the rain that at any moment can descend from the sky; the second is like a stream that flows from a spring.
	www.seriousseekers.com /perennial_philosophy.htm (290 words)

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