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The Transcendent Unity of ReligionsFrithjof Schuon

Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

The Transcendent Unity of Religions

by Frithjof Schuon

Schuon's foundational statement of perennialism, first published in French in 1948. It argues that the religions differ in their outward, exoteric forms but converge in an inner, esoteric truth accessible through metaphysical understanding.

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