Traditional Quotes and Symbols:
By seeking to sever the connection of the sciences with any higher principle, under the pretext of assuring their independence, the modern conception robs them of all deeper meaning and even of all real interest from the point of view of knowledge.
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The truths of a lower order can be taken as symbols of those of higher orders, and can therefore serve as supports by which one may arrive at an understanding of these; and this fact makes it possible for any science to become a sacred science.
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There is really no 'profane realm' that could in any way be opposed to a 'sacred realm'; there is only a 'profane point of view', which is really none other than the point of view of ignorance.
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In traditional civilizations a true hierarchy is always and everywhere preserved: the relative is not treated as non-existent, it is duly taken into consideration, but is put in its rightful place, which cannot but be a secondary and subordinate one
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The circumference in reality exists only in virtue of the center, but the beings that stand upon the circumference must necessarily start from there and follow the radius that leads to the center.
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The 'profane' presume to discuss what is sacred, and to contest its character and even its existence; the inferior judges the superior, ignorance sets bounds to wisdom, error prevails over truth, the human is substituted for the Divine
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If suggestions like 'equality' or 'progress', were to disappear, the general mentality would come very near to changing direction.
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What the modern world has striven after with all its strength, even when it has claimed in its own way to pursue science, is really nothing other than the development of industry and machinery
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We are now in the fourth age, the Kali- Yuga or 'dark age', and have been so already, it is said, for more than six thousand years, that is to say since a time far earlier than any known to 'classical' history.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols:
By seeking to sever the connection of the sciences with any higher principle, under the pretext of assuring their independence, the modern conception robs them of all deeper meaning and even of all real interest from the point of view of Knowledge.
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Truth is not a product of the human mind; it exists independently of us, and it is simply for us to comprehend it; outside this knowledge there can be nothing but error.