Scientia sacra

Rather than the result of an intellectual process focused on the content of a spiritual experience, sacred knowledge arises directly from the experience which in itself is of an intellectual character; it is not an intellectual interpretation imposed upon that experience. The source of sacred knowledge is the "active" intellect, the origin of knowledge, rather than the "passive" or material intellect which receives the knowledge, and it is this sacred knowledge that lies at the heart of each religious tradition, knowledge of the sacred principle with respect to which everything else is relative, the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega. It is the means by which man knows the unknowable, God's knowledge of himself. At one's heart is the sun of the intellect which is reflected by the moon of the mind, it is the mind that interprets the knowledge of the heart through dialectic.

Because the sacred is without limit and eternal, the ultimate reality, knowledge of the sacred brings freedom from limitation and bondage to the temporal, as it is ignorant identification of reality with what is unreal that enslaves. The search for such knowledge is actually for a rediscovery of what has always been known but has become forgotten under layers of ignorance and forgetfulness, there at the centre of one's being. The search leads not only to freedom from the material world and physical limitations but also to freedom from the psyche which imprisons the soul.