The Beguine movement fundamentally differed from all previous significant movements within the Western Church. It was a women's movement, not merely an appendage of a movement initiated, led, and maintained by men.
Human reason itself is based on the irrational, on will and emotion, and is unable to prove the existence of a Supreme Reason, which itself would have to be based on the Supreme Irrational, the Universal Consciousness. It is precisely the manifestation of this Supreme Consciousness in our emotional world and imagination that leads us to faith in...
The so-called logical God was a God who neither loved nor hated, because He did not experience either pleasure or suffering. He was an inhuman God, whose truth was rational or mathematical truth, which means injustice. The attributes of the living God must be inferred from the historical revelation found in the Gospel, not from metaphysical...
Religious feeling is the feeling of divinity; only by violating everyday human language can one speak of a godless religion. Everything depends on the concept we form of God. This, in turn, depends on the concept of divinity. It is through divinity that man has reached God, rather than deriving divinity from God.
The rivers of Indian thought and philosophy, as well as the life, culture, and literature of India, originate in the dim beginnings of a distant past. At times, they changed their course, sometimes dried up, but they retained their essential identity. This persistence is not necessarily a virtue; it can easily signify stagnation and decline, which...
Sanskrit is an astonishingly rich, thriving, and lushly developed language that remains precise and adheres strictly to the grammatical framework established by Pāṇini over 2,600 years ago. Its wealth has expanded and flourished, yet it has never severed its connection to its original roots. During the declining years of Sanskrit literature, the...
The symbol of the North American Indian is the proud, aquiline-nosed plains rider adorned with a feathered headdress. The Great Plains were home to numerous Native American tribes. However, the Plains lifestyle and culture were among the youngest in America, developing in the 18th century and coming to an end in the last quarter of the 19th...
The birth hour of the modern age is marked by a severe illness of the European humanity: smallpox. This does not mean that the plague was the cause of the modern age, but rather the opposite: the "modern age" existed first, and it was through it that the plague arose. Every era creates its own diseases, just as its art,...