Suddenly it get very quite. Why? May be this can generate some discussion?<br>From a Muslim’s perspective, the Koran and the Jesus Christ are equal ...
Greetings Mansoor, Ainsaust, and everyone.<br>Yes, it has become quiet, I suppose many of us are outdoors enjoying the fresh spring air and sun.<br>Mansoor,...
Frater <br>Greetings.It was nice hearing from you. I pray you bring back some roses of the Spiritual Springs for all members of this club.<br><br>I don’t ...
Frater <br>Attempting to answer the point concerning the differences in the Shia and Sunni communities, I would hesitantly say the following:<br>Ignoring the...
The Saturn population too, as you may gather from my Occult Science, was once united with the Earth, yet in a very different way from the population of the...
I know there is a difference but I was wondering if someone could explain it in simple terms.<br>What is the difference between Traditionalism/Metahistory and...
Guenon, who had misinterpreted the true nature of buddhism, was nevertheless able to consider anew this tradition, following the advices and knowledge of ...
-Corrected message-<br>Guenon, who had misinterpreted the true nature of buddhism, was nevertheless able to consider anew this tradition, following the advice...
Thank you for your elaborate and kind letter. Yes, you are right, Guenon never wrote nothing explicit about the Australian aborigens. To tell you the truth, I...
Thank you very much for your answer! <br>Allow me to come back to some of your remarks.<br>1) I was actually talking about any aboriginal people, not only the ...
7) You say Guenon wrote for an elite. I agree of course, but why then didn't he keep silent about the primal peoples, rather than expressing debatable ...
THIS ARTICLE MUST NOT BE REPRINTED WITHOUT THE AUTHOR'S CONSENT.<br><br>The Religious Tradition of the Australian Aborigines<br>The Inaugural A.K. Coomaraswamy...
On the other hand it has received a great deal of attention from those least qualified to understand it, which is to say from scholars whose inquiries are ...
Nor would I presume to try to tell the story from the Aboriginal viewpoint. Rather I would like simply to remark briefly on a few of the more conspicuous ...
Such a view is echoed in the words of an otherwise sympathetic missionary, writing in the mid-19th century:<br><br>The Aborigines of New Holland, in this part...
This was because such scholarship as there was concerning Aboriginal religion often rested on rotten foundations, namely, those vague but potent Victorian ...
Australia is the present home and refuge of creatures, often crude and quaint, that have elsewhere passed away and given way to higher forms. This applies ...
The white man had indeed, only carried out the intentions of the Creator in coming and settling down in the territories of the natives. God's first command to...
Nothing more dramatically betokens the failure of Durkheimian anthropology in the face of Aboriginal religion than its continuing insistence that Aboriginal ...
The reason for this is both sad and simple: the European desecration of the Aboriginal tradition has left us, through most of the continent, with little more ...
It is the spiritual, not the temporal, which culturally, socially and politically is the criterion of all other values. 23<br>Before we turn to the second of...
institutionalized racial discrimination which ranged from a well-intentioned paternalism to programs of vicious repression, and governmental policies of ...
We might also note in passing that the technical simplicity of Aboriginal culture depended on the most sophisticated level of environmental knowledge. Before...
It should also be noted that the very concept of "Aboriginality" is a European construct and one which still has no relevance or validity for some of the...
We might add that such cultures are also governed by sacred mythic accounts which leave them indifferent to the linear and chronological conception of history...
First, it is a narrative mythical account of the foundation and shaping of the entire world by the ancestor heroes who are uncreated and eternal. Second, "the ...