Religion & Mysticism (comparative & cross-cultural)

The image of humanity presented by modern psychology is not only fragmentary but misleading. In reality, to be human is to be as if suspended between animality and divinity, but modern thought—whether philosophical or scientific—admits only of animality, practically speaking.

Schuon asserts that to transcend religious differences, we must explore the esoteric nature of the spiritual path back to the Divine Oneness at the heart of all religions.

From “the most authoritative traditionalist of American background,” the fellow who single-handedly compiled the majestic Treasury of Traditional Wisdom, this pivotal book is the first to challenge the concept of evolutionism from a cosmological standpoint.