S p i r i t ua l i t y S t u d i e s 7 - 1 S p r i n g 2 0 2 1 3 3 Samuel Bendeck Sotillos Notes [1] “In [note: modern] Western experience it is common to separate the mind from the body and spirit and the spirit from mind and body.” (Duran and Duran 1995, 15). [2] “The distinction of spirit, soul, and body is moreover that, which has been unanimously accepted by all the traditional doctrines of the West.” (Guénon 2004c, 68). “May the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:23). [3] Sufi adage quoted in Ibn ‘Arabī (1975, 11). [4] “[M]odern science not only eclipsed the religious and traditional philosophical understanding of the order of nature in the West, but it also all but destroyed the traditional sciences.” (Nasr 1996, 126). [5] “Locke, [note: is] the founder of modern psychology” (Guénon 2004b, 92). “Our business here is not to know all things, but those, which concern our conduct. If we can find out those measures whereby a rational creature, put in that state, which man is in in this world, may and ought to govern his opinions and actions depending thereon, we need not be troubled that some other things escape our knowledge.” (Locke 1879, 4). See also Westaway (1931). [6] “[M]odern psychology is eager to throw metaphysics to the winds.” (Lings 1991, 17–18). See also Albert G. A. Balz (1936, 337–51), and Bendeck Sotillos (2013b). [7] “[T]he traditional conception … attaches all the sciences to the principles of which they are the particular applications, and it is this attachment that the modern conception refuses to admit. For Aristotle, physics was only ‘second’ in its relation to metaphysic, that is to say it was dependent on metaphysic and was really only an application to the province of nature of principles that stand above nature and are reflected in its laws; and one can say the same for the cosmology of the Middle Ages.” (Guénon 2004, 45). See also E. A. Burtt (2003). [8] “[I]n metaphysics there is no empiricism; principial knowledge cannot stem from any experience, even though experiences – scientific or other – can be the occasional causes of the intellect’s intuitions.” (Schuon 1991, vii). [9] “Cartesian bifurcation created a dualism between mind and matter, which has dominated Western thought since the seventeenth century, a dualism which has led many to choose the primacy of mater over mind and to establish the view that in the beginning was matter and not consciousness.” (Nasr 2007, 224). [10] “Self realizes the Self” (Tripura Rahasya 2002, 163). [11] “[T]he things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” (1 Corinthians 2:11). [12] “A civilization is integrated and healthy to the extent that it is founded on the invisible or underlying religion, the religio perennis.” (Schuon 1984a, 143). [13] “[I]t is often suggested that …modern psychology … has developed in parallel with modern science, is working in the same direction as that pursued by traditional sages and philosophers and by the few who still seek to follow them, and that it is thus making an approach to the same goal. That is not so.” (Northbourne 2001, 17). [14] “Psychoanalysis is an illness that pretends to be a cure” (Perls 1993, 8). [15] “There is no science of the soul without a metaphysical basis and spiritual remedies” (Schuon 2009, 11).
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