The Aryan Path June 1948

Seeing that in every field the sensible fails to be self-explaatory the philosopher has been oblied to assume the existence of the supersensible not in the sense in which scientists understand the term but in the sense of some ultimate principle which gives the sensible its meaning and existence. [...] But in the life of the nation what matters is the end and the perception of the proper and the right means to achieve the end. [...] " Perhaps we can correct the deformities and the distractions of Western civilisation by renewing filial respect and devotion to Asia from which we came."" THE MEETING OF THE WATERS AN ENQUIRY INTO THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF EAST AND WEST IN THE MYSTERY OF THE GRAIL [ A symbol was well defined by Madame H. P. Blavatsky as an embodied idea combining the conception of the Divine Invisible with th [...] But behind the consequent evolution of systematized religions and the practice of varying fertility cults the yearning for the light remains— the imagery persists—now as in Indo-Aryan or Celtic Myth in the rape of the suvessel and the quest for a paradisal " land of youth " ; now after an assimilation of SyrPhcenician mysteries and identifiction with sexual symbolism and the dying God [...] Still the Grail-bearer of Montsegur haunts the imagination of the Pyrenean peasants—in the shape of Esclarmonde a: synthesis perhaps of the two Esclarmondes one of whom—the great Cathar abbess—dedicated Montsegur to the Cathar faith whilst the other died as a martyr at the stake.