This darkness is ignorance or, more precisely, unconsciousness of ignorance — that is to say the natural man is in a state of ignorance and cannot even be conscious of that state. To free himself from it, he must pass to the darkness; this is a terrifying and painful experience, for it ruins and destroys all the patencies and norms on which the natural man lived and depended — a true “descent into hell”, the hell of the unconscious. Continue reading
Traditional doctrine states that we have wished all relevant events in our life before birth. Continue reading
God brings us blessings but He also brings us tribulations. They each require a different response. We need to feel gratitude for the good time, but patience and acceptance for the bad times. On the contrary, we usually take the good times for granted, as if they are normative rather than the exception. Continue reading
The intellectual love of God combines the highest form of knowledge with the greatest emotion. In effect, this is God contemplating himself in the being. Our love for God, therefore, is God’s love for humanity.
Salvation therefore consists in a constant and eternal love of God. This is the most elevated and desirable state, and is the goal of the Ethics.
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It is not the man who chooses the way. It is the way that chooses the man. In other words. the question of a choice does not arise, since the finite cannot choose the Infinite: rather the question is one of vocation, and those who are “called” to use the Gospel expression, cannot ignore the call without committing a “sin against the Holy Ghost” any more than a man can legitimately ignore the obligations of his religion. ~ Frithjof Schuon Continue reading