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Truth and Holiness: all values are in these two terms; all that we must love and all that we must be. (Frithjof Schuon)
Truth is the raison d'être for man's existence; it constitutes our grandeur and reveals to us our smallness. View quote
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The worldly or imperfect man journeys through life as if on a long road; if he is a believer, he sees God above him in the far distance, and also at the end of this road. However the spiritual man stands in God, and life passes before him like a stream. View quote
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The chief difficulty of the spiritual life is to maintain a simple, qualitative, heavenly position in a complex, quantitative, earthly setting. View quote
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The cosmic, and more particularly the earthly, function of beauty is to actualize in the intelligent and sensitive creature the Platonic recollection of the archetypes, and thus open the way towards the luminous Night of the one and infinite Essence. View quote
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The interiorization of beauty presupposes nobility of soul and at the same time produces it. View quote
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Beauty is a reflection of divine beatitude; and since God is Truth, the reflection of His beatitude will be that blend of happiness and truth found in all beauty. View quote
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The beautiful is not that which we love and because we love it, but that which by its objective value obliges us to love it. View quote
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Beauty, whatever use man may make of it, belongs fundamentally to its Creator, who through it projects into the world of appearances something of His being. View quote
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Without fear of God as a basis, nothing is possible spiritually, for the absence of fear is a lack of self-knowledge. View quote
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To fear God is first of all to see, on the level of action, consequences in causes, sanction in sin, suffering in error; to love God is first to choose God, that is to say, to prefer what brings one nearer Him over what estranges from Him. (Frithjof Schuon)
Love of God is firstly the attachment of the intelligence to the Truth, then the attachment of the will to the Good, and finally the attachment of the soul to the Peace that is given by the Truth and the Good. View quote
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To love God does not mean to cultivate a sentiment − that is to say, something we enjoy without knowing whether God enjoys it − but to eliminate from the soul what prevents God from entering it. View quote
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If we must love God, and love him more than ourselves and our neighbor, it is because love exists before us and because we are issued from it; we love by virtue of our very existence. View quote
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When God is absent, pride fills the void. View quote
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In pure theosophy there is no question of wishing to remove from God His mysteries by means of unveilings and specifications; for however acute our discernments, the divine mystery remains complete by reason of the Infinitude of the Real. View quote
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Divine anthropomorphism responds to human theomorphism: if God can manifest Himself in human modalities, it is because man is "made in the image of God", and this is the very reason for man's existence and for the cosmic miracle that he is. View quote
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Consciousness of the Absolute is the prerogative of human intelligence, and also its aim. View quote
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Reason perceives the general and proceeds by logical operations, whereas Intellect perceives the principial − the metaphysical − and proceeds by intuition. View quote
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The Intellect constitutes the raison d'être of the human condition. View quote
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Objective intelligence, free will, virtuous soul: these are the three prerogatives that constitute man. (Frithjof Schuon)
The human being, by his nature, is condemned to the supernatural. View quote
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Moral liberty and intellectual objectivity constitute a priori man's deiformity. View quote
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First of all one has to answer the question of why the painful experiences that man must undergo are called "trials." View quote
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Pure and absolute truth can only be found beyond all its possible expressions; these expressions, as such, cannot claim the attributes of this truth, their relative remoteness from it is expressed by their differentiation and multiplicity, by which they are strictly limited. View quote
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