Summary
Aldous Huxley: Eternal Philosophy - Philosophia perennis
A new view of the world, which is based on the spiritual teachings of the mystical philosophy of the East and the West. What, like a red thread, runs through all the teachings of all times, is the spiritual unity of the individual and the whole, man and God. A work that inspires us. New translation, new edition. PHILOSOPHIA PERENNIS is a phrase coined by Leibniz. However, it is an ancient and universal metaphysics that recognizes a divine reality, essential to all the existing world; psychology that finds in the soul something similar or even identical to it; ethics, which sets the ultimate goal for man to know an immanent and transcendent essence of his existence. The beginnings of the eternal philosophy can be found in the traditional knowledge of primitive peoples of all parts of the world, and in its developed forms it has a place in every organized religion. One version of the supreme common factor for all former and latter theologies was first written down more than twenty-four centuries ago, and since that time this inexhaustible subject has been revisited from the standpoint of every religious tradition and in all the major languages of Asia and Europe. On the pages that follow, I have collected selected parts of those writings, chosen mainly for their significance - because they effectively illustrate a certain point in the general system of eternal philosophy - but also for their essential beauty and significance. They are arranged in various chapters and incorporated into my commentary, which aims to illustrate, relate, develop and, where necessary, illuminate.
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