8 Understanding and Believing

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Poems xi
5. Foreword xiii
6. Introduction xv
7. Preface xlix
8. Religion and Tradition
9. The Sense of the Absolute in Religions 3
10. Two Esotericisms 17
11. Concerning Naiveté 23
12. The Mystery of the Hypostatic Face 33
13. The Perennial Philosophy
14. Summary of Integral Metaphysics 43
15. Consequences Flowing from the Mystery of Subjectivity 51
16. Tracing the Notion of Philosophy 59
17. Understanding and Believing 71
18. Human Nature and Destiny
19. Man in the Universe 83
20. The Message of the Human Body 91
21. Man and Certainty 103
22. Universal Eschatology 109
23. Sacred Art and Symbolism
24. The Question of Forms in Art 121
25. The Liberating Passage 135
26. An Elementary Criteriology of Celestial Apparitions 139
27. The Symbolism of the Hourglass 147
28. Spirituality
29. Modes of Spiritual Realization 155
30. The Anonymity of the Virtues 165
31. The Nature and Function of the Spiritual Master 171
32. The Stations of Wisdom 181
33. Conclusion 191
34. Selections from Letters, Spiritual Texts, and Memoirs 199
35. Translator’s Notes 235
36. Glossary 263
37. Sources 275
38. Bibliography of Works by Frithjof Schuon 277
39. Index 287