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What do people make of the ideas of the "Traditionalist School" or the "Perennialist School" championed by Rene Guenon, Frithjof Schoun, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, James Cutsinger, Phillip Sherrard, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Rama Coomaraswamy, Reza Shah Kazemi, Marco Pallis, Martin Lings, Charles le Gui...

What light does the Bible shed on this enterprise? I'm working on an article on the topic of interfaith dialogue and wanted to read some Christian input. I want the article to discuss it from both a Biblical and Quranic perspective and could use some help with the former.

What do you make of the message of this wonderful poem? If you want to view the suns’ bright source, You’ll have to see it on an intermediary surface Though human eyes can’t bear this brilliance, They can view the sun on water. Since the sun’s brilliance is here diminished Your perception...

Charles Le Gai Eaton writing on the views of the Roman Catholic philosopher Gustave Thibon: "The Catholic philosopher Gustave Thibon compares modern civilization to a train which is hurtling towards the abyss or towards the buffers. With every mile that it covers the air-conditioning is...

An American stealth drone, the RQ-170 was recently taken down mostly intact in Iran. This military vehicle penetrated Iranian airspace without permission. Our government is claiming that it came down due to an electronics error but the Iranians are claiming that it was taken down by an...

What do you make of the idea of the human self as a ongoing process manifesting the names and attributes of God? "Given that the self is unknown and indefinite, we will not get anywhere by asking, "What is the self?" We cannot reify and specify it. If we want to "purify" the self or...

Which places of worship in your faith tradition best reflects it's beauty and magnificence? Personally I find myself in love with some of the Mosques of Iran. Some of the tile work and patterns you find there are are so beautiful that they make my heart ache just looking at them. Please...

I've been reading A History of Islamic Philosophy by Majid Fakhry. Just finished reading the chapter on the 10th century Islamic philosopher Miskawayh . The section on his understanding of ethics and how they relate to the three major faculties of the soul was pretty interesting and I wanted...

Why didn't god give us a drive to do good that is as powerful as say our sex drive or the drive to feel good? Make it hard to sin and easy to do the right thing? Make fatty foods taste horrible and spinach taste wonderful? Make extra marital sex feel horrible physically when one performs it...

Does it still exist? I've noticed that some of the practices and myths (like that of the Simurgh for example) held to by the Sufis,and specifically so among Iranian sufis, are supposed to have had a pedigree going back to the pre-Islamic faith of Iran. The famous theosopher and Sufi...

"The Art of al-Kimia is the summa, the perfection of sages, the prophets, the saints; it is the goal and process of the famous hermetic phrase 'as above , so below'. This sacrad art has no purpose outside the precepts of Natures laws. The alchemist is aware that all creation is solely...

What do you make these songs: ‪Niyaz - Allahi Allah‬‏ - YouTube This one is English if you can't stand songs in other languages lol: ‪Azam Ali Elysium - Endless Reverie‬‏ - YouTube Isn't her voice simply enchanting? Very moving music.

I was listening to a Catholic priest on the radio today and he said that God ordered the angels to prostrate themselves to Adam and that Satan refused to do so. I knew this was a common teaching in Islam but I've never heard of it before in Catholicism. Does anyone else know about this?

I think people have some misconceptions about Sufism and it's place in Islamic history. Often people understand Sufism to have been very uninfluential. At most a minor oddity that can safely be passed over because it is / was of little historical import. They come to this conclusion by...

The Telegraph: Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has bowed to US pressure by agreeing for the first time that a Palestinian state should roughly follow the contours of the 1967 ceasefire lines separating the West Bank from Israel. Israel 'ready to negotiate borders...

"Their views had much in common with those expressed by the British historian and philosopher of the late 18th century, Edumd Burke. For the Sunnni Jurists, as for Burke, the social disruption caused by revolt or revolution outweigh, in its long term effects, any advantages that might be...

Is it possible? Certainly the more limited understanding of the idea can be practiced. We don't have an official state Church so it's currently being practiced right now. Some, however, take it's demands in a more maximalist sense of totally divorcing any religiously motivated idea or action...