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By William Stoddart

This e-book includes a wide-ranging collection of writings via perennialist writer William Stoddart that divulge the various fake ideologies of postmodernism (forgetting) and make contact with for a go back to conventional faith, particularly in its mystical dimensions (remembering).

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The chapter on “Traditional Science” is an open window onto the subtleties and insights of pre-humanist, or “Aristotelian”, thinking. Most people (except, no doubt, people like C. S. Lewis) are quite unaware of the breadth and depth of pre-modern thinking. Some may have familiarity with ancient Greek philosophy, but here, in the examples given in Burckhardt’s book, we see the same ancient attitudes still, as it were, in operation. The chapter entitled “The Golden Chain” is a poetic evocation of Sufism or Islamic mysticism.

Climbers can start from different positions at the foot of the mountain. From these positions, they must follow the particular path that will lead them to the top. We can and must believe in the efficacy of all the paths, but our legs are not long enough to enable us to put our feet on two paths at once! Nevertheless, the other paths can be of some help to us. For example, if we notice that someone on a neighboring path 30 Religious and Ethnic Conflict has a particularly skillful way of circumventing a boulder, it may be that we can use the same skill to negotiate such boulders as may lie ahead of us on our own path.

Nationalism—as Peter Townsend and others have pointed out—is collective egoism, and as such, it is no more beautiful than individual egoism. It is to derive vulgar pleasure from narcissism and xenophobia. Once again, one has to say that it is a stupidity as well as an evil. Linked with nationalism are “separatism” (to the extent that it is illegitimate), communalism, and “patriotism”. As regards separatism: the so-called principle of “self-determination” is always debatable, 18 Ideological Obstacles to the Spiritual Life and especially so when it is pushed to the extreme.

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