Metaphysics in Western Mode

I have looked back at the chapter in question—”Axioms of the Sophia Perennis” in The Transfiguration of Man—and I think the solution, though you have already said you do not find it satisfying, is simply that Schuon is writing with a western...

Relying on the Angels

With regard to your question, I am minded to use your own wording and reply koanically: what one must do is to “fight” the mind precisely by “joining with it” so as to “follow it gracefully back to the invocation”. In other words,...

From Experience to Station

Thank you for sharing this very beautiful dimension of the “inner me”. It is clear that what you describe afforded you a veridical insight into the nature of things; I have never had any doubts on that score—doubts, that is, about whether you are...

Asymmetrical Dyophysitism

Not surprisingly, my post on “Enhypostatic Humanity” (17 April) has fomented more than one response. Sister N., you say, wants to know how “my” position differs from the Apollinarian heresy, which denied that Christ had a rational soul,...

Disputes between Giants

On the question of Christianity and esoterism, you are right that this was the central point of division between Guénon and Schuon. The former claimed that the Christian sacraments, originally instituted by Christ as fully initiatic rites, had been...