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By Aldous Huxley
In response to Huxley, the perennial philosophy is: "the metaphysic that acknowledges a divine truth vast to the area of items and lives and minds; the psychology that reveals within the soul anything just like, or maybe exact with, divine fact; the ethic that areas man's ultimate result in the data of the immanent and transcendent floor of all being; the object is immemorial and common. Rudiments of the perennial philosophy should be discovered one of the conventional lore of primitive peoples in each area of the area, and in its absolutely built kinds it has a spot in each one of the better religions" (The Perennial Philosophy, p. vii).
The Huxley's use of time period the 'perennial philosophy' can both be obvious in its place translation of the Hindu inspiration of Sanatana Dharma, or everlasting faith, or at the very least as corresponding with the belief.
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Exclusion of all the rest is to run into grave spiritual peril. Thus, if we approach God with the preconceived idea that He exclusively the personal, transcendental, all-powerful ruler of the world, we run the risk of becoming entangled in a religion is of rites, propitiatory sacrifices (sometimes of the most horrible nature) and legalistic observances. Inevitably so ; for if God is an unapproachable potentate out there, giving mysterious orders, this kind of religion is entirely appropriate to the cosmic The best that can be said for ritualistic legalism is that situation.
Is about to cease. In the past thy teacher hath set thee face to face with the Clear Light; and now thou art about * to experience it in its Reality in the Bar do state (the intermediate Thy breathing immediately following death, in which the soul is judged or rather judges itself by choosing, in accord with the character formed during its life on earth, what sort of an after-life it shall state* have). In this Bardo state all things are like the cloudless sky, and the naked, immaculate Intellect is like unto a translucent void without circumference or centre.
God may be worshipped and contemplated in any of his But to persist in worshipping only one aspect to the aspects. exclusion of all the rest is to run into grave spiritual peril. Thus, if we approach God with the preconceived idea that He exclusively the personal, transcendental, all-powerful ruler of the world, we run the risk of becoming entangled in a religion is of rites, propitiatory sacrifices (sometimes of the most horrible nature) and legalistic observances. Inevitably so ; for if God is an unapproachable potentate out there, giving mysterious orders, this kind of religion is entirely appropriate to the cosmic The best that can be said for ritualistic legalism is that situation.