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Art, Aesthetics, and Beauty
Ecology
Esoterism
Evil and Suffering
Faith
Faith Traditions and Ecumenism
Free Will and Responsibility
Health and Traditional Healing
Islam and the West
Living a Spiritual Life in the Modern World
Metaphysics
The Metaphysics of Governance: Unity, Diversity, Pluralism
Music
Mysticism and the Quest for “Oneness”
Nature and Metaphysical Transparency
Poetry
Prayer
Reality
Sages and Traditionalist Thinkers
Science and Metaphysics
Scripture and Interpretation
Symbols and Symbolism
Technology and the Modern World
Tradition, Critiques and Defences of
Tradition, Definition
Tradition and Modernity
Tradition and Philosophy
Tradition and Pseudo-Spiritualism
Tradition and Psychology
Virtue, Values and Morality
Book Reviews
Debates
Interviews
Letters to the Editor
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 Threshold: Reflections on Gallery Art and the Sacred
By Hieromonk Silouan
A Suite of Six Poems based on Works of Art
by M. Ali Lakhani
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
Religion, Secularism and the Environment
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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
Evil and Suffering
Some Aphorisms on God, Evil, and Liberation
by Mohammed Rustom
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
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
Tradition and Religious Pluralism
by M. Ali Lakhani
Ensconced In Seeming Knowledge
by M. Ali Lakhani
Free Will and Responsibility
The Word, the Wisdom and the Will: Human Responsibility in Light of the Divine Will
by M. Ali Lakhani
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
A Brief Spiritual Reflection on the Current Pandemic
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
In Quarantine
by M. Ali Lakhani
Trials Must Be: Thoughts on a Pandemic
by Michael Fitzgerald
Buddhism and the Coronavirus
by Rev. John Paraskevopoulos
Some Reflections Provoked by the Current Pandemic
by Harry Oldmeadow
The Present Moment and Our Existential Situation
by Peter Samsel
A Sufi Response to the Coronavirus
by Charles Upton
On Listening: Hearing God’s Voice in the Face of Suffering
by Mohammed Rustom
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
Looking Beyond Islamophobia: Three Case Studies
by M.Ali Lakhani
Charlie Hebdo Redux: Islam and Free Speech
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
"Multi-tasking" and Christian Teaching: Taking "multi-tasking" to task on the basis of Christian doctrine
by Mark Bonadio
Living in a Post-Real World
by M. Ali Lakhani
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
On Freedom and Necessity
by M. Ali Lakhani
Creation out of Nothing
by Robert Bolton
The Distance Between Us
by Ali Lakhani
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
Editorial: Pluralism as Process: A Dialogical Framework
by M. Ali Lakhani
Editorial: Political Correctness and Pluralism
by M. Ali Lakhani
Editorial: The Politics of Dignity
by M. Ali Lakhani
Music
The Music of the Spheres
by Robert R. Reilly
Mysticism and the Quest for “Oneness”
“What Thirst is For”
by M. Ali Lakhani
Mysticism
by William Stoddart
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
Poetry
Poems
by Andrew Frisardi
Doxology
by Marty Glass
Poems
by Brian Keeble
Poems
by M. Ali Lakhani
Three Poems
by Brian Keeble
Two Poems
by Jerome Klotz
Two Poems
by M. Ali Lakhani
A Poem for the Nativity
by Jerome Klotz
Three Gnostic Poems from A Book to Free the Soul
by Yves Cadoux
The Vacant Cross, A Poem for Gaza, for Syria, for Yemen
by Michael Bradburn-Ruster
Kneeling
by M. Ali Lakhani
Ukraine War Poems
by M. Ali Lakhani
There is but one Religion
by Jerome Klotz
A Suite of Six Poems based on Works of Art
by M. Ali Lakhani
Prayer
The Well Amid the Waste
by Alvin Moore
The Metaphysical Underpinnings of Prayer
by Philip Connaughton
Editorial: "Polish for the Heart"
by M. Ali Lakhani
Reality
“Such stuff as dreams are made on”: Existence and the Flight from Reality
by M. Ali Lakhani
My Last Lecture
by James S. Cutsinger
Sages and Traditionalist Thinkers
Editorial: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the Occidental Exile
By M. Ali Lakhani
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
"The Sound of the Beloved": Sir John Tavener (1944 - 2013)
by Ian Skelly
A Portrait of William Stoddart
by Nuno Marques de Almeida
William Stoddart: A Teacher of Sophia Perennis
by Raul Burneo
The Pen and the Canon: Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba’s Nonviolent Jihad
by Farah Michelle Kimball
A Celebration of Female Sainthood in West Africa Sokhna Mame Diarra Bousso (1833-1866)
by Michelle R. Kimball
Tributes to Huston Smith
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, William Stoddart, Harry Oldmeadow, and Charles Upton
Keith Critchlow (1933 - 2020) – A Personal Tribute by a Former Student
by Emma Clark
Enduring Courage and Wisdom: A Tribute to Laleh Bakhtiar
by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
A Note on Laleh Bakhtiar’s Passing
by Robert D. Crane
Letters of Frithjof Schuon: Reflections on the Perennial Philosophy
reviewed by M. Ali Lakhani
In Memoriam: Catherine Schuon (1924–2021)
by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
In Memoriam: Marty Glass (1938–2022)
A tribute by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos, and a poem by Charles Upton
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
Two Thrusts against Scientism
by Charles Upton
The Ocean and the Volcano
by M. Ali Lakhani
Wolfgang Smith – The Vertical Ascent: From Particles to the Tripartite Cosmos and Beyond
reviewed by M. Ali Lakhani
Scripture and Interpretation
Who Speaks for the Quran?
by Mohammed Rustom
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
Remarks on Confusions inherent in Number Symbolism
by Timothy Scott
Mi'raj
by Nigel Jackson
Sanguis Agni
by Nigel Jackson
A Note on the Treasure of the Tronoën Calvary in Brittany
By Jane Casewit
A Moonless Night in Cathay: On the Symbolism of the Simurgh
By Nigel Jackson
Technology and the Modern World
The Transhumanist Fallacy
by M. Ali Lakhani
The Repeal of Reticence and the Need for Connection: A Note on the Internet
by M. Ali Lakhani
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.
On Sovereignty and Stewardship
by M. Ali Lakhani
A Tribute to Queen Elizabeth II
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
The Black Mole on the Cheek of the Beloved: The Problem of Metaphysical Ambiguity
by M. Ali Lakhani
Is Tradition ‘Against the Modern World’?
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
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
On Volition and Desire
by M. Ali Lakhani
Virtue, Values and Morality
Towards a Traditional Understanding of Sexuality
by M. Ali Lakhani
What is Normal?
by M. Ali Lakhani
The Quest for Moral Certainty
by M. Ali Lakhani
Rediscovering Virtue
by M. Ali Lakhani
The Garment of Light and the Garment of Fire
by M. Ali Lakhani
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
In Search of the Sacred: A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought: Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Ramin Jahanbegloo
reviewed by M. Ali Lakhani
A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World
By Peter Kingsley
reviewed by Nicolas Leon Ruiz
Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World
By HRH The Prince of Wales, with Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly
reviewed by M. Ali Lakhani
Sufism and the Way of Blame: Hidden Sources of a Sacred Psychology
By Yannis Toussulis
Foreword by Robert Abdul Hayy Darr
reviewed by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition
By Seyyed Hossein Nasr
reviewed by Zachary Markwith
What does Islam Mean in Today's World?
By William Stoddart
reviewed by M. Ali Lakhani
A Sufi Master's Message: In Memoriam René Guénon
By Shaykh 'Abd al-Wahid Pallavicini
reviewed by M. Ali Lakhani
Love in the Holy Qur'an
By HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal
Foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
reviewed by M. Ali Lakhani
On the Origin of Beauty: Ecophilosophy in the
Light of Traditional Wisdom
By John Griffin
Foreword by Satish Kumar
reviewed by M. Ali Lakhani
Outline of Sufism: The Essentials of Islamic Spirituality
By William Stoddart
Foreword by R.W.J. Austin
reviewed by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
Meister Eckhart on Divine Knowledge
By C.F. Kelley
reviewed by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the
Triumph of the Spectacle
by Chris Hedges
reviewed by Reviewed by Atif Khalil
The Original Gospel of Rāmakrishna: Based on M.’s English Text, Abridged
Revised by Swāmī Abhedānanda,
Edited and Abridged by Joseph A. Fitzgerald
reviewed by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
Ink of Light (Fons Vitae Rumi Series)
By Katharine Branning
reviewed by Brian Welter
Lectio Divina as Contemplative Pedagogy: Re-appropriating Monastic Practice for the Humanities
By Mary Keator
reviewed by Brian Welter
Faith and Ethics: The Vision of the Ismaili Imamat
By M. Ali Lakhani
reviewed by Andrew Frisardi
Then and Now: A Staggering Decline revealed by Newspaper Cuttings
Compiled by William Stoddart
reviewed by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
Letters of Frithjof Schuon: Reflections on the Perennial Philosophy
reviewed by M. Ali Lakhani
Wolfgang Smith – The Vertical Ascent: From Particles to the Tripartite Cosmos and Beyond
reviewed by M. Ali Lakhani
The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn ‘Arabi’s Meccan Illuminations
By James Winston Morris
reviewed by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
Reality: From Metaphysics to Metapolitics
By Wynand de Beer
reviewed by Brian Welter
The Miracles of Jesus
By Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev
reviewed by Brian Welter
When the Rose Blooms: Spiritual Aphorisms
By M. Ali Lakhani with Illustrations by Nigel Jackson
Introduction by Barry McDonald
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
An Exchange on Tradition and Sufism
Open letter by Charles Upton to Aleksandr Dugin: 'A Challenge to Aleksandr Dugin'.
Interviews
Tears, Laughter, Compassion and Wisdom in the Kali Yuga:
Marty Glass Interviewed
by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
The Spiritual Legacy and Heritage of Traditional Islam and Sufism in North Africa:
Interview with Shaykh Ahmed Haabib
by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
The End of Quantum Reality: A Conversation with Wolfgang Smith
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
Letter to the Editor: Confessions of a Lutheran Perennialist
by Larry Rinehart
A Question on Schuon
by Charles Upton
On Christianity and the Perennial Philosophy
by Stratford Caldecott & Rama P. Coomaraswamy
Letters to the Editor: Sacred Web 29
Letters to the Editor: Sacred Web 30
Letters to the Editor: On orthodox Christianity and perennialism
by Larry Rinehart
Response to a Letter: Aspects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Orthodoxy
by Gustavo Polit – a response to Larry Rinehart
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