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- From: darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice)
- Subject: Re: Ok, truce?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.051029.12270@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <910773f.43.724643257@axe.acadiau.ca>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 05:10:29 GMT
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- In <910773f.43.724643257@axe.acadiau.ca> 910773f@axe.acadiau.ca (HEATHER LEE FYFFE) writes:
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- [...stuff deleted...]
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- >I believe in that truth-type #1 somebody described. I will not forcibly
- >state that the truth as I believe it is undoubtedly that Truth. However,
- >that does not change the fact that there _can_ only be one Truth, by its
- >very nature, whatever it is. If the Truth is that there are many little
- >truths, then that is still the Truth.
-
- One viewpoint is the "perennial philosophy", i.e. that there is one
- primordial Truth which every religion contains. The deeper one
- understands each religion, the more one sees the similarities in the
- essences of each religion.
-
- I don't know too much about this philosophy yet, however I plan to
- educate myself about as much as possible about this soon.
-
- I have heard that there is a good book on this by Frithjof Schuon (I
- think its title is "The Transcendent Unity of Religions"). Other authors
- who have written about this are, I think, Rene Guenon and Huston Smith.
-
- Fred Rice
- darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
-