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 6 of 9 This is taken from a transcript of a 1995 interview with the eminent Perennialist thinker and writer Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998). Question: And what about spiritual practice? Frithjof Schuon: Spiritual practice is essentially prayer. There are three forms of prayer: first, canonical prayer, for instance the Lord’s prayer; second, personal prayer, whose best model is given by the Psalms; third, the contemplative prayer of the heart; this is mystical spirituality, which requires certain conditions. The story of the “Russian Pilgrim” offers an image of it; also Hindu texts about japa-yoga, methodical invocation.