THE PERENNIAL TRADITION

Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Summer Solstice


The perennial tradition is not just a metaphysic, but it’s a psychology that finds in the soul something similar to, or even identical with, that Divine Reality. That’s the "univocity of being,” as John Duns Scotus called it. The assumption of philosophers is that you have no way to understand another thing, even minimally, unless there is a little bit of it already in you. Like knows like. If something is completely foreign to you, you’re normally bored by it. There has to be a little bit of something in you to recognize, or to be attracted to, or to be drawn to that thing. We cannot deeply experience or even desire union with something that is totally foreign or alien to us. So God planted a little bit of God inside of us—and all things. It seduces us into even more universal love and life.

Today, may Brother Sun, at his zenith, call forth that same sunshine which is in you.