Description
This collection of writings, written around the middle of the century—hence before most of our other books—differs from them in that instead of articles as such it consists of extracts from letters, notes
from our reading, and reflections arising independently of outward circumstances and organized only later in the form of chapters. Be that as it may, Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts contains issues we did not address in our later books, notably on the subject of Christianity, the Vedānta, spiritual psychology, and the symbolism of colors; with regard to this psychology, it goes without saying that intrinsic morality, considered in depth, constitutes a message that can never grow old and that therefore remains urgent for man as such, the man of all times.
Thus even if our subsequent works contain a complete doctrine—the sophia perennis or, if one prefers, integral traditionalism—it seems to us that the present collection deserves to be preserved from loss for the reasons just mentioned.
Perhaps it would be worth adding that truth can never be a matter of merit, given that it belongs to no one while belonging to everyone; it is an immanent gift as well as a transcendent one. And let us also
recall—from a somewhat different point of view—that according to an ancient saying from India, “There is no right superior to that of truth.”
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