I'm delighted to know you're translating Schuon's books into German. It's rather ironic that so few of his writings have appeared to date in his own mother tongue. He once observed that French is more suited to metaphysics and German to poetry, and this of course is...

Do I think there's an "unbridgeable chasm" between what St Thomas and the Catholic West have to say about God as pure Esse ("being") and what St Dionysius and the Orthodox East teach with regard to the Divine as a Hyperousia Thearchia ("supra-essential Godhead")? Is...

What, you ask, is the difference between the "inclusivist" stance of the contemporary Roman Catholic Church and the position of the Christian perennialist? Are they basically saying the same thing? By no means. The Catholic inclusivist allows for the possible...

Thank you for your inquiry concerning my forthcoming Schuon anthology, Splendor of the True: A Frithjof Schuon Reader. It has been some months since I mentioned the book on this weblog, and it is probably time for a quick update. The book is gradually wending its way...

Why, you ask, if Heaven is a spiritual state and not a physical place, do we read in the Acts of the Apostles that, at His Ascension, Christ "was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he...

Teaching is learning, not simply in the sense that the teacher always learns the most about the subject—which, of course, is certainly true—but in the sense that we teachers are all the time learning from experience what to do and what not to do. There are...

"Getting ourselves happy with God"—or, to make the same point in mantrayanic terms, "taking delight in the Name"—is certainly an important key; as Schuon says in an unpublished Text to which I called your attention some time ago, one must not only negate a...

As I mentioned last week in my post on Socratic Teaching, I'm leading an honors seminar this fall on the perennialist school. This is the first time, I might add, that I've offered such a course at the undergraduate level, and I'm doing so, at the request of a few...

Yes, it's that time of year again. Like you, I start my fall teaching the week after next. Two courses, as usual: Christian Theology, one of my regular offerings in the Religious Studies department, and a seminar in the University's Honors College on the Perennial...

You expressed your surprise, vis-à-vis my post on "A Thomistic Preparatio", that Schuon would "place Thomas Aquinas at the top of his recommendation list" for Christian esotericists. You're surprised because you've "yet to come across a Thomist who is friendly to the...