(Arnaldo Sisson Filho interviewed by journalist Viviane Pereira, May/2009) Presentation by Viviane Pereira: Raised in a Catholic family, Arnaldo Sisson Filho began his search for answers to the questions that guide our existence early on. He studied in Roman Catholic schools and, in his late teens, questioning everything he had learned so far, he became… Read More
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Why Was the Christian Church Initially Called Catholic?
“Drawing its life-blood directly from the pagan faith of the old Occidental world, Christianity more nearly resembles its immediate father and mother than its remote ancestors, and will, therefore, be better expounded by reference to Greek and Roman sources than to their Brahminical and Vedic parallels. The Christian Church is Catholic, or it is nothing… Read More
Ex Oriente Lux: Although Derived from the East, Christianity Is Modeled in Greco-Roman Mythology
“THE Christian Faith is the direct heir of the old Roman faith. Rome was the heir of Greece, and Greece of Egypt, whence the Mosaic dispensation and Hebrew ritual sprang. Egypt was but the focus of a light whose true fountain and centre was the Orient in general – Ex Oriente Lux. For the East,… Read More
Synthesis of the Buddhist Christianity
Although we have a site dedicated to the presentation of the Buddhist Christianity, we have chosen here a few works as a synthetic presentation of the Buddhist Christianity, which is one of the main aspects of the “New” Gospel of interpretation, which is the name of the religious message given to the world by Dr.… Read More
Toynbee: a Thousand Years from Now, Attention to What Happened When Christianity and Buddhism Began to Unite
“Some years ago, Arnold Toynbee declared that when the historian of a thousand years from now comes to write the history of our time, he will be preoccupied not with the Vietnan war, not with racial strife, but with what happened when for the first time Christianity and Buddhism began to penetrate one another deeply.… Read More
Works
BACON, Francis. Novum Organum (or, True Directions for the Interpretation of Nature). 1620. In Essays Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon. London, Ward Lock & Co Limited, 1910. 493 pp. Link to free online copy. BACON, Francis. – Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane. London, CASSELL & COMPANY, 1893. Link to free online copy.… Read More
My Principal Preoccupation at Present Is with Learning from Buddhism
“As for myself, my principal preoccupation at present is with learning from Buddhism. I can’t help feeling that Western Christianity (like Western everything else) is badly in need of a blood transfusion. Somehow or other we have become effete (…) and we need new perspectives. Just as a whole new era opened up for Christianity… Read More
Outlook Perennial Philosophy: XI – The Existence of the Perennial Philosophy
ADDITIONAL TEXTS: 11. THE EXISTENCE OF THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY Arnaldo Sisson Filho The notion of the existence of a Perennial (or Esoteric) Philosophy can be presented, very briefly, from the well-known phrase of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “Everything that rises converges”. In other words, if it is possible for human consciousness to “rise”,… Read More
Outlook Perennial Philosophy: V – The Constitution of Man
5. THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN The astounding practical materialism to which we have been reduced in this country can hardly be more clearly shown than it is by the expressions that we employ in common life. We speak quite ordinarily of man as having a soul, of “saving” our souls, and so on, evidently… Read More
VEGETARIANISM AND THE BIBLE (4) – ANNA KINGSFORD AND VEGETARIANISM
4. ANNA KINGSFORD AND VEGETARIANISM (1) Samuel Hopgood Hart Anna Kingsford was born at Maryland Point, Stratford, in Essex, on the 16th of September 1846. It is now over forty-three years since she was with us – she having died on the 22nd of February 1888, at the comparatively early age of forty-one. But,… Read More