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Superstitions
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Quantitative aspects have no value at all, because value is, essentially, attached to quality.
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Quantitative aspects have no value at all, because value is, essentially, attached to quality.
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Tradition is nothing other than remembrance, and the bearing of the connection with the Origin. Modernity, however, is not only the lack of this remembrance, modernity aims at the destruction of every kind of representation of this remembrance.
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Knowledge of the origin, knowledge of the path, knowledge of the all-transcending, ultimate goal: this is metaphysical tradition.
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Each stage of existence has its level of truth.
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One thing is the existential determination of man, which he shares with every pebble, and another thing is his freedom, which he owes to his deiform personality and which causes him to participate in the Divine Nature.
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The advancement of a technical civilisation does not measure superiority.
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One reason for the prohibition of plastic and pictorial arts amongst the Semitic peoples is the intention to prevent naturalistic deviations, a real danger among men whose mentality is predominantly individualistic and sentimental.
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The nations of the West disowned their perfect traditional art in favor of the residues of the individualistic and empty art of the Graeco-Romans, which has finally led to the artistic chaos of the modern world.
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A thing is not only what it is for the senses, but also what it represents. Natural or artificial objects are not arbitrary symbols of a superior reality, but they are the effective manifestation of that reality.
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Esoterism infuses an intellectual quality into the properly devotional part of the tradition, thereby establishing a balance the absence of which would finally bring about the dissolution of the whole civilization, as has happened in the Christian world.
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The Indian surrounds himself with silence as with a magic circle. It is from this silence that the Indian draws his spiritual strength; his ordinary prayer is unvoiced: what it requires is not thought but consciousness of the Spirit.
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If the first and ultimate centre were not always present, it would never be possible to reach it.
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Truth is not a product of the human mind
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When standing before a cathedral, a person really feels he is placed at the center of the world; standing before a church of the Renaissance, Baroque, or Rococo periods, he merely feels himself to be in Europe.
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Icon painters prepared themselves for their work by fasting, by prayer and by sacraments. They drew their creative joy from a loving recreation of the revealed prototypes, and this resulted in a perfection such as no individual genius could ever attain.
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Western people look in a text for a meaning that is fully expressed and immediately intelligible, whereas Eastern peoples are lovers of verbal symbolism and read in depth. The words for them are reference points for a doctrine that is inexhaustible
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The periodic onset of corruption is in the nature of human frailty, the price of preventing it being an unsleeping vigilance of the Saints. Failing this protection, some need for readaptation (a reform in the strict sense of the word) may well arise.
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The tiny system of images (the ego) must become, when its terrestrial contingency is left behind, a star immortalized in the halo of Divinity. Beyond the stars burns the Sun of the Self in its blazing transcendence and in its infinite peace.
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As long as your urge for truth affects your daily life, all is well with you.
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Every man rules something which is placed in dependence on him, even if it is only his own soul, and every man is governed by something which surpasses him, even if it is only his own intellect.
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Theory is not an end in itself, it is only a key with a view to a cognition on the part of the Heart.
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The uniqueness of God excludes the uniqueness of the world. The infinity of God demands the repetition of the world.
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Beauty is a crystallization of some aspect of universal joy; it is something limitless expressed by means of a limit.
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If God were outside me then God would be not God but one of the things that exist. To suppose an objective God is strictly speaking an indirect negation of God.
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Even the tiniest plant that blooms for a fortnight and then is seen no more is vaster in its metaphysical roots than the entire cosmos in its visible form: for these roots extend into eternity. And how much more does this apply to man!
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Fallen man is poisoned by the passional element, from this results an obscuring of the Intellect and the necessity of a Revelation coming from the outside.
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The remembrance of God is not only an inwardness free from images and flavours, but also a perception of the Divine in the symbols of the world.
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We are everywhere in touch with the Absolute, from which we cannot emerge but which at the same time is infinitely distant, no thought ever circumscribing it.
