The Transcendent Unity of Religions The Infallibility of the Pure Intellect The purpose of dogmatic religion Metaphysical truth penetrates our whole being What every human being needs spiritually The essence of spiritual practice The importance of morals or virtue in the spiritual life Intellectual intuition and human potential Faith and intellectual intuition

slide 4 of 9 This is taken from a transcript of a 1995 interview with the eminent Perennialist thinker and writer Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998). Question: If we have religion, which saves us, why do we also need metaphysics? Frithjof Schuon: It is because metaphysics satisfies the needs of intellectually gifted men. Metaphysical truth concerns not only our thinking, but it penetrates also our whole being; therefore it is far above philosophy in the ordinary sense of the word.