«In the first case certain initiates indulge in inopportune disclosures, risking a disturbance in minds as yet unprepared for knowledge of higher truths, and so provoking disorder at the social level.» — el primero de esos casos: divulgaciones inoportunas ante espíritus que declara no preparados, con desorden en el plano social
Perennialismo
What does this tradition say about experience, knowledge and transformation? We approach these questions with consciousness as our centre, listening to the language of each source.
Gonzalo Olivares Velázquez · Spiritus Mundi
1 · Listen to the sources
How these passages were chosen: from the works assigned to this tradition, in alphabetical order, the first passage of each whose quoted words name consciousness, awareness, soul, spirit or knowledge (in English or Spanish); one per work, up to four. The choice is by vocabulary only: a passage may agree with our reading, disagree with it, or leave the question open.
«The fact is that a knowledge of grammar and an ability to make a word for word translation are not in themselves sufficient to enable a person to enter into the spirit of a language or to assimilate the thoughts of the people who read and write it.» — prefacio: niega que saber gramática y traducir palabra por palabra baste para entrar en el espíritu de una lengua o asimilar el pensamiento de quienes la escriben.
«Once all purely intellectual knowledge had come to be denied or ignored as it has been since Descartes, the end was logically bound to be in positivism and agnosticism together with all manner of ‘scientistic’ aberrations» — data en Descartes el momento en que se niega o se ignora todo conocimiento puramente intelectual, y de ahí deriva el positivismo y el agnosticismo
«Since purely intellectual knowledge is by definition beyond the reach of the individual. being in its essence supraindividual. universal. or divine. and since it proceeds from pure Intelligence. which is direct and not discursive. it follows that this knowledge not only goes infinitely further than reasoning. but even goes further than faith in the ordinary sense of this term.» — la consecuencia que saca: siendo supraindividual por esencia, ese conocimiento va más lejos que el razonamiento y aun que la fe en el sentido ordinario Unión de guion de fin de renglón releída en el crudo: el verbatim imprime *supraindividual* donde la fuente parte *supra-individual*.
2 · Ask what each source declares
Who knows, and what is transformed? Is the relationship between inner experience and the world declared, disputed, or left open? Let the passage determine the answer before bringing it into dialogue with our reading.
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For us, these paths meet in consciousness. Which passage converses with that reading, and which qualifies or contradicts it? Save it with your own note.
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