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Although New Age thought has popularized traditional mystical beliefs and has made them accessible and understandable to millions of people who might not have stumbled upon such ideas at all or at least not until later in their lives, this has not come without a cost to the purity of the underlying mystical beliefs. In its effort to popularize these esoteric ideas, the New Age movement has also diluted them and married them to all sorts of questionably related notions such as astrology, positive… Continue

Easter can be appreciated on at least three levels -- the natural, the mythic, and the metaphorical.

Easter is celebrated in relationship to the vernal equinox, the first day of spring. The arrival of spring has always been an important time in pagan traditions of celebrating the renewal of life on earth.

Easter is one of the two greatest holidays in the Christian faith marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. However, Christianity is not the first mythology to honour the resurr… Continue

The mystical message that Spirit is the essence of everything is
clearly evident in the ancient Taoist scripture, the Tao Te Ching,
attributed to the sage Lao Tsu. The Tao (translated as the Way) is
beyond form and although ineffable it can be intuited.

In Chapter Six of the Tao Te Ching it is written:

The Tao is the breath that never dies.
It is a Mother to All Creation.
It is the root and ground of every soul
-- the fountain of Heaven and Earth, laid open.
Endless source, endless river
River… Continue

What then is the inner Truth that lies at the core of all religions?
Schuon says that the common exoteric or outer ideational manifestation
of religion is the notion of "I and Thou", or that there is a separation
(duality) between man and God and that they are fundamentally two
different entities. In contrast, the esoteric core of all religions is
the knowledge that "I am Thou and Thou art I" i.e., that man and God
are at their inner-most essence the same Being.

Frithjof Schuon was recognized as one of the foremost authorities on
comparative religion in the twentieth century. In his book The
Transcendent Unity of Religions (1984), Schuon states that religions
differ in their outward manifestation but are alike in their inner
message and that both their exoteric (outer) and esoteric (inner)
aspects are necessary although the former freqently causes problems.
That is because those who are committed solely to the exoteric
expression of a religion often bec… Continue