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Primordial tradition
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By : Jean Biès - Friday, 29 April 2011 00:00 |
 Writer, essayist and professor, the life and work of Jean Biès are marked by an insatiable spiritual search. His books are "keys of life" to accept the modern world, a world without soul where the Diabolum (which divides) to take precedence over Symbolum (which unites). To Jean Biès, the spiritual wandering we are crossing obliges us to go back to the transcendental unity of all the religions and to discover again the eternal truths that all the genuine traditions share.
In the tradition of René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon or Ananda Coomaraswamy, the work of Jean Biès is, under the aegis of a same continuum: the Philosophia Perennis.
Appeared at the Renaissance and forged by the theologist Agostino Steuco, this notion indicates the science of principles fundamental and spiritual. This term refers to the Primordial Tradition, according to which, man, before the fall in the world of matter, was in possession, "naturally", with a divine wisdom. "The Sophia Perennis, is to know the total Truth, reminds Frithjof Schuon, a universal wisdom which commits the whole man in its decline".
In this interview presented by Virginie Durand, Jean Biès gives us some keys of understanding of this fundamental concept that is the Primordial Tradition.
 
Sometimes misunderstood, assimilated, often, to a right-wing political tendency is a rough anachronism, Jean Biès reminds us that the Primordial Tradition isn't an immutable deposit of men of the past. On the contrary, it is "semper rediviva" forever re birthing: holding universal and eternal values, it is, from yesterday, from today and from tomorrow...
An interview recorded at the Forum 104.
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