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Schuon asserts that to transcend religious differences, we must explore the esoteric nature of the spiritual path back to the Divine Oneness at the heart of all religions.
This book is founded on a doctrine that is metaphysical in the most precise meaning of the word and cannot by any means be described as philosophical. Such a distinction may appear unwarrantable to those who are accustomed to
regard metaphysic as a branch of philosophy. but the practice of linking the two together in this manner. although it can be traced back to Aristotle and the Scholastic writers who followed him. merely shows that all philosophy suffers
from certain limitations that. even in the most favorable instances such as those just quoted exclude a completely adequate appreciation of metaphysic. In reality. the transcendent character of metaphysic makes it independent of any purely human mode of thought In order to define clearly the difference between the two modes in question. it may be said that philosophy proceeds from reason (which is a purely individual faculty). whereas metaphysic proceeds exclusively from the Intellect
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