Traditional Quotes and Symbols: What tradition criticizes in the modern world is the total world view, the premises, the foundations which, from its point of view, are false so that any good which appears in this world is accidental rather than essential.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The Principle is the Absolute compared to which all is relative. It is Infinite while all else is finite. It alone is while all else becomes, for It alone is eternal in the ultimate sense while all that is externalized partakes of change.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: It is not metaphysically possible to kill the gods and seek to efface the imprint of the Divinity upon man without destroying man himself; the bitter experience of the modern world stands as overwhelming evidence to this truth.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: To see the cosmos as theophany and not veil, it is necessary to return again and again to the truth that reality is hierarchic, that the cosmos is not exhausted by its physical aspect alone.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: One could say that the traditional worlds were essentially good and accidentally evil, and the modern world essentially evil and accidentally good.