Transcendent Unity of Religions
In this video Frithjof Schuon speaks about his celebrated work The Transcendent Unity of Religions.
In this video Frithjof Schuon speaks about his celebrated work The Transcendent Unity of Religions.
Frithjof Schuon was a Sufi master and metaphysician and the chief exponent of the perennialist school of comparative religion. His approach toward truth is through the path of knowledge, similar to Jnana Yoga in Hinduism. In this short video he explains the relationship between religion and its esoteric dimension.
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It appears to us that we see the world because we are looking outwardly into it; but in truth what appears to be our seeing the world is us being seen by God. The seeing before us is not ours; it is His. Our seeing of the world is God’s seeing us. God is the … More The Phenomenology of God
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