Additionally, esoteric practices - including divination and the alchemy - are discussed within the context of perennial philosophy and the primordial tradition. Primordial Traditions was the winner of the 2009 Ashton Wylie Award for Literary Excellence. Eternal Wisdom aspires to expand on the existing corpus of teachings by advocating for the inclusion of polytheist cultural sources. This book examines the strands of esoteric thought and gnosis provided in the teachings of perennial philosophy - a topic that has been predominantly associated with prestigious authors such as Carl Jung, Ren Gu non, Frithjof Schuon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Huston Smith, and Aldous Huxley. Part earthly and part-other worldly, these hidden forces interact with humanity by providing a primordial source for the creative facets of human existence that are channeled into the diverse range of spiritual, mystical, and cultural experiences. They are eternally existent in artistic symbolism and spiritual traditions. These concepts are taken outside of the context of religious philosophy to explain how these ideas should be revised to achieve a positive cultural outlook for the increasingly bleak modern era.Īrchetypes and mystical experiences possess an inherent immortal existence in the collective human subconscious. Eternal Wisdom explains the connection between art, mythology, spirituality, and religion through the language of symbols.
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