I've read perennial philosophy defined as: "The science of the Absolute and the relative." The Absolute is ONE or no-thing while the relative is many or every-thing. How are they united?"..........I did not mind having no visible successes, but what did grieve me was the idea of being excluded from that transcendent kingdom to which only the truly great have access and wherein truth abides. I preferred to die rather than live without that truth..........................."
Was Simone's life's quest doomed to failure and the return of dust to dust in the domain of opinions? We don't know. We know of one experience when near death:“The divine Ground of all existence is a spiritual Absolute, ineffable in terms of discursive thought, but (in certain circumstances) susceptible of being directly experienced and realized by the human being. This Absolute is the God-without-form of Hindu and Christian mystical phraseology. The last end of man, the ultimate reason for human existence, is unitive knowledge of the divine Ground—the knowledge that can come only to those who are prepared to “Die to self” and so make room, as it were, for God.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
Maybe some atoms of the Great Beast or society itself dwelling in Plato's Cave mature to become human and return home to their origin; who knows? We can contemplate if it is possible.I had the impression of being in the presence of an absolutely transparent soul which was ready to be reabsorbed into original light. I can still hear Simone Weil’s voice in the deserted streets of Marseilles as she took me back to my hotel in the early hours of the morning; she was speaking of the Gospel; her mouth uttered thoughts as a tree gives its fruit, her words did not express reality, they poured it into me in its naked totality; I felt myself to be transported beyond space and time and literally fed with light.
Gustav Thibon
Obviously secularism and its denial of the ONE or the ineffable Absolute beyond the limitations of time and space will have no interest and is satisfied with arguing opinions. But if there are others out there who have studied the implications of Perennial philosophy, and why we are drawn to it much like a moth is drawn to the light, maybe we can discuss it.
What does it mean to become conscious Man, the individual, and experience conscious meaning and the ACTIONS associated with it supporting the structure of creation rather than the REACTIONS supporting the collective goal of survival of the fittest normal for collective animal life?