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Defining “Tradition”
Tradition and Modernity
Critiques and Defences of Tradition
Debates
Sages and Traditionalist Thinkers
Tradition and Pseudo-Spiritualism
Tradition and Psychology
Health and Traditional Healing
Esoterism
Symbols and Symbolism
Nature and Metaphysical Transparency
Ecology
Faith
Virtue, Values and Morality
Living a Spiritual Life in the Modern World
Art, Aesthetics, and Beauty
The Metaphysics of Governance: Unity, Diversity, Pluralism
Faith Traditions and Ecumenism
Islam and the West
Metaphysics
Tradition and Philosophy
Science and Metaphysics
Mysticism and the Quest for “Oneness”
Reality
Prayer
Book Reviews
Letters to the Editor
Defining “Tradition”
What is a “Traditionalist”?—Some Clarifications
by Charles Upton
Understanding “Tradition”
by M. Ali Lakhani
Tradition – the radical option?
by Brian Keeble
Tradition and Modernity
Introducing Sacred Web
by M. Ali Lakhani
Introduction to Sacred Web Conference 2006
by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales
Tradition and Modernity
by Frithjof Schuon
Reflections on Tradition and Modernity
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Faith and Modernity
By Karen Armstrong
The Light of Traditional Faith amid the Shadowlands of Modernity
by John Ahmed Herlihy
Capitalism, Tradition and Traditionalism
by Rodney Blackhirst
Critiques and Defences of Tradition
Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2004)
By Mark Sedgwick
reviewed by Michael Fitzgerald
The Problematic of the Unity of Religions:
Afterword to Bruno Berards’s Introduction à une métaphysique des mystères chrétiens
by Jean Borella
What is a “Traditionalist”?—Some Clarifications
by Charles Upton
Umberto Eco, Fascism and Tradition
by M. Ali Lakhani
A Traditionalist’s Response to Bolton’s Philosophical Dualism
by José Segura
Reinitiating Initiation?
An Open Question for Traditionalism
by Lucian W. Stone, Jr.
The Polemics of Parousia: Further Notes on the First Days after the End of the Kaliyuga
by William W. Quinn, Jr.
Debates
A Debate about Modernity: The Moment of Modernity
by David Appelbaum
A Response to Professor Appelbaum’s “The Moment of Modernity”
by William W. Quinn
Towards a Deeper Ecumenism: Catholicism and Tradition
by Stratford Caldecott
From Phenomenon to Foundation
A Response to Stratford Caldecott
by Lynn C. Bauman
Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Notes on the First Days after the End of Kali Yuga
by William W. Quinn, Jr.
Who or What is “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”?
by Alvin Moore, Jr.
Tradition, Orthodoxy and the Interfaith Movement: Where do the Traditionalists Stand
by Charles Upton
Sages and Traditionalist Thinkers
In Memoriam: Al-Ustad Abdslam Ad-Darqawi
by Fatima Jane Casewit
Kathleen Raine (1908 – 2003)
by Brian Keeble
Remarks on Esoterism in the works of Frithjof Schuon
By Patrick Laude
Frithjof Schuon and Sri Ramana Maharshi:
A survey of the spiritual masters of the 20th century
by Mateus Soares de Azevedo
The Esoteric World Vision of Nasir Khusraw
by Alice Hunsberger
Initiatic Grace in the Masterwork of Jalal ud-din Rumi
by Lynn C. Bauman
A Message of Hope at the Eleventh Hour: Martin Lings, 1909-2005
by Reza Shah-Kazemi
Suhrawardi on Sacred Symbolism and Self-Knowledge
by Mohammed Rustom
Teaching Stories from Tierno Bokar
Gathered and Rendered into English by Jane Fatima Casewit
Eckhart’s Image of the Eye and the Wood:
An analogy which explains ‘all that I have ever preached about’
by Reza Shah-Kazemi
Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophy, and Tradition
by Rodney Blackhirst
Tradition and Pseudo-Spiritualism
The Problems that result from locating Spirituality in the Psyche
by Rama P. Coomaraswamy
Tradition and Psychology
Psychological Integration and the Religious Outlook
by Rama P. Coomaraswamy
The Egoic System and the Nurture of the Heart
by Cynthia Bourgeault
Health and Traditional Healing
The Miracle of Ayurveda: Ancient Treatments for Modern Afflictions
by John Ahmed Herlihy
The Alchemy of Traditional Foods
by Rodney Blackhirst
Esoterism
Remarks on Esoterism in the works of Frithjof Schuon
By Patrick Laude
Lossky’s Palamitism in the light of Schuon
by William Stoddart
The Esoteric World Vision of Nasir Khusraw
by Alice Hunsberger
Esoteric Dimensions of Deep Ecology
by Paul Davies
Eckhart’s Image of the Eye and the Wood:
An analogy which explains ‘all that I have ever preached about’
by Reza Shah-Kazemi
Putting on the Form of the Gods: Sacramental Theurgy in Neoplatonism
by Algis Uzdavinys
Symbols and Symbolism
The Ternary and the Quarternary
by Robert Bolton
Suhrawardi on Sacred Symbolism and Self-Knowledge
by Mohammed Rustom
Understanding “Symbol”
by Tim Scott
Eckhart’s Image of the Eye and the Wood:
An analogy which explains ‘all that I have ever preached about’
by Reza Shah-Kazemi
Above and Below: Correspondence in Astrology
by Rodney Blackhirst
Reflections on the Stone
by Robert Bolton
The Minbar: Symbol of Verticality and of Elevation
by Naima Chikhaoui; revised, translated and edited by Fatima Jane Casewit
Nature and Metaphysical Transparency
The Translucence of the Eternal: Religious Understandings of the Natural Order
by Kenneth Oldmeadow
Nature, Man and God
by Alvin Moore, Jr.
“Signposts to the suprasensible”:
Notes on Frithjof Schuon’s understanding of “Nature”
by Kenneth Oldmeadow
Hidden Sanctuaries: Unveiling the Spirituality of the Natural World
by John Herlihy
Ecology
Imaginal Ecology
by Kevin Richtscheid
Esoteric Dimensions of Deep Ecology
by Paul Davies
Sacrifice and the Preservation of the Environment in Native American Belief
by James Larking
The Metaphysics of Ecology
by Peter Milward
Faith
On Faith and Intellect
by M. Ali Lakhani
Faith and Modernity
By Karen Armstrong
The Light of Traditional Faith amid the Shadowlands of Modernity
by John Ahmed Herlihy
Virtue, Values and Morality
Towards a Traditional Understanding of Sexuality
by M. Ali Lakhani
What is Normal?
by M. Ali Lakhani
Living a Spiritual Life in the Modern World
The Importance of Spiritual Literacy
by M. Ali Lakhani
Of Detachment and Spiritual Courtesy
by M. Ali Lakhani
Consecrated to the Sublime
by M. Ali Lakhani
Capitalism, Tradition and Traditionalism
by Rodney Blackhirst
Art, Aesthetics, and Beauty
Art and Isthmus: Esoteric Tradition and Aesthetic Education
by Paul Davies
A Traditional Critique of Humanist Art
by José Segura
Of Art and Skill
by Brian Keeble
Beauty as Outward Virtue—Virtue as Inward Beauty: The Sacred Art of Living
by Deborah Bell and Jonathan Bell
The Metaphysics of Governance: Unity, Diversity, Pluralism
What is Conservatism?
by Titus Burckhardt
Pluralism and the Metaphysics of Morality
by M. Ali Lakhani
“Fundamentalism”: A Metaphysical Perspective
by M. Ali Lakhani
“A Single Principle”: On Faith and Pluralism
by M. Ali Lakhani
The Secular: Hidden and Express Meaning
by Iain T. Benson
Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy: The Matrices of Conceptual Transfer
by Rusmir Mahmutcehajic
Faith Traditions and Ecumenism
On Vedantic Non-Dualism and Christianity:
A Dialogue between Robert Bolton and Charles Upton
The Yoga of Hesychasm
by James S. Cutsinger
Conceptions of the Absolute in Mahayana Buddhism and the Pure Land Way
by John Paraskevopoulos
Formal Diversity, Essential Unity: Frithjof Schuon on the Convergence of Religions
by Kenneth Oldmeadow
Islam and the West
A Sense of the Sacred: Building Bridges Between Islam and the West
by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales
Reclaiming the Center
by M. Ali Lakhani
Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad
by Reza Shah-Kazemi
Towards Informed and Conscientious Media Coverage of Islam
by Karim H. Karim
Shadows and Strife:
Reflections on the Confrontation of Islam and the West
by Rodney Blackhirst and Kenneth Oldmeadow
Inside Pathan Country: A Brief Encounter with a Traditional World
by John Ahmed Herlihy
Metaphysics
“Mystery” and Scriptural Text in the Post-Modern Age
by Lynn C. Bauman
Conceptions of the Absolute in Mahayana Buddhism and the Pure Land Way
by John Paraskevopoulos
The Principle of Verticality
by M. Ali Lakhani
Tradition and Philosophy
Dualism and the Philosophy of the Soul
by Robert Bolton
The Goal of Islamic Philosophy: Reflections on the Works of Afdal al-Din Kashani
by William C. Chittick
Science and Metaphysics
We are the Bees of the Invisible: Physics, Metaphysics and the Spiritual Path
by Charles Upton
The Elect and the Predestination of Knowledge
‘Esoterism’ and ‘Exclusivism’: A Schuonian Perspective
by Timothy Scott
On Ken Wilber’s Integration of Science and Religion
by Jose Segura
Science, Scientism and Self-Destruction
by Kenneth (Harry) Oldmeadow
Mysticism and the Quest for “Oneness”
“What Thirst is For”
by M. Ali Lakhani
Mysticism
by William Stoddart
Reality
“Such stuff as dreams are made on”: Existence and the Flight from Reality
by M. Ali Lakhani
Prayer
The Well Amid the Waste
by Alvin Moore
The Metaphysical Underpinnings of Prayer
by Philip Connaughton
Book Reviews
Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2004)
By Mark Sedgwick
reviewed by Michael Fitzgerald
The Problematic of the Unity of Religions:
Afterword to Bruno Berards’s Introduction à une métaphysique des mystères chrétiens
by Jean Borella
Music of the Sky, An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry
Edited by Patrick Laude and Barry McDonald
reviewed by John Herlihy
Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life
Selected and edited by James S Cutsinger. Foreword by Philip Zaleski
reviewed by Alvin Moore, Jr.
Returning to the Essential: Selected Writings of Jean Biés
Introduced by Patrick Laude
reviewed by Alvin Moore, Jr.
The Wisdom of Ancient Cosmology: Contemporary Science in Light of Tradition
By Wolfgang Smith
reviewed by Marilyn Prever
The Corbin Triology
By Tom Cheetham
reviewed by M. Ali Lakhani
Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy
By Michael Oren Fitzgerald
Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy
By Harry Oldmeadow
reviewed by M. Ali Lakhani
Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
By Marilynne Robinson
reviewed by M. Ali Lakhani
The Return of the Perennial Philosophy: The Supreme Vision of Western Esotericism
By John Holman
reviewed by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor: Sacred Web 3
Letters to the Editor: Sacred Web 4
Letters to the Editor: Sacred Web 5
Letter to the Editor: Sacred Web 6
