THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY
Aldous Huxley
From the Introduction: "The Perennial Philosophy is the metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds; the psychology that finds in the soul something similar to, or even identical with, the divine Reality; the ethic that places man's final end in the knowledge of the immanent and transcendent Ground of all being - the thing is immemorial and universal."
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"Eternally, all creatures are God in God….So far as they are in God, they are the same life, the same essence, the same power, the same One, and nothing less." Suso
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"Pure, absolute and eternal Reality – such is Brahman, and 'thou art That.' Meditate upon this truth within your consciousness."
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"To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy,….the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground."
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"Build yourself a spiritual cell, which you can always take with you, and that is the cell of true self-knowledge; you will find there the knowledge of God's goodness to you." St. Catherine of Siena
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"Every thing, event or thought is a point of intersection between creature and Creator, between a more or less distant manifestation of God and a ray, so to speak, of the unmanifest Godhead; every thing, event or thought can therefore be made the doorway through which a soul may pass out of time into eternity."
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"Love is the motive power of the mind." St. Gregory the Great
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"Where there is tranquillity, there is neither craving nor aversion, but a steady will to conform to the divine Tao or Logos on every level of existence and a steady awareness of the divine Suchness and what should be one's own relation to it."
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"The importance, the indispensable necessity, of self-knowledge has been stressed by the saints and doctors of every one of the great religious traditions."
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“The great fact of God as the First Mover of a universe which partakes of His divinity has always been recognized.”
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"The Dharma-body (the Absolute) of all the Buddhas enters into my own being. And my own being is found in union with theirs." Yung-chia Ta-shih
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"The truth is, of course, that we are all organically related to God, to Nature and to our fellow men."
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"The Perennial Philosophy teaches that it is desirable and indeed necessary to know the spiritual Ground of things, not only within the soul, but also outside in the world and beyond world and soul, in its transcendent otherness."
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"How shall I grasp it? Do not grasp it. That which remains when there is no more grasping is the Self." Panchadasi
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"This identity out of the One into the One and with the One is the source and fountainhead and breaking forth of glowing Love." Meister Eckhart
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"The divine Ground, according to the Perennial Philosophy, is the supreme good."
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"The aim and purpose of human life is the unitive knowledge of God."
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"The existence of sentient creatures has a goal and purpose which is ultimately the supreme good of every one of them."
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"Divine Reality manifests itself as a Power that is loving, compassionate and wise."
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"God, in his simple substance, is all everywhere equally." St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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"Almighty Love….is stronger than death." John Smith, the Platonist
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"Take note of this fundamental truth. Everything that works in nature and creature….is the working of God in nature and creature." William Law
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"Immortality is participation in the eternal now of the divine Ground."
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"The one happiness is the Life, the Light, the Spirit of God, manifested in nature and creature."
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"Science and technology could not exist unless we had faith in the reliability of the universe."
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"The goal of creation is the return of all sentient beings out of separateness and that infatuating urge-to-separateness which results in suffering, through unitive knowledge, into the wholeness of eternal Reality."
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