The Transcendent Unity of Religions The Infallibility of the Pure Intellect The purpose of dogmatic religion Metaphysical truth penetrates our whole being What every human being needs spiritually The essence of spiritual practice The importance of morals or virtue in the spiritual life Intellectual intuition and human potential Faith and intellectual intuition

slide 1 of 9 This is taken from a transcript of a 1995 interview with the Perennialist thinker and writer Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998). Question: You have written more than twenty books on religion and spirituality. Your first book has the title The Transcendent Unity of Religions. May I ask you how one should understand this unity? Frithjof Schuon: Our starting point is the acknowledgment of the fact that there are diverse religions which exclude each other. This could mean that one religion is right and that all the others are false; it could mean also that all are false. In reality, it means that all are right, not in their dogmatic exclusivism, but in their unanimous inner signification, which coincides with pure metaphysics, or in other terms, with the philosophia perennis.