2025 Lecture Series - Presented by Dr. Harry Oldmeadow
The Journey into Eternity
Primordiality, Tradition, Modernity and the Spiritual Life
The Rhythms of Time and Traces of Primordiality (Primordial Worlds)
The doctrine of cosmic cycles; traditional and modern views of Time; Primordiality; Cain and Abel and the fate of the nomads; Primal worldviews; Sacred Time and Space; Virgin Nature as Theophany; the Sense of the Sacred; ‘the bugbear of literacy’.
Revealed Tradition as Mediator between Time and Eternity (Traditional Worlds)
Tradition and traditions; the Age of Revelations; the constituents of tradition: revelation, grace, doctrine, method, religious forms, sacred art; the exoteric and esoteric domains; the transcendent unity of religions.
Signs of the Times: The Reign of Scientism, Evolutionism and ‘Progress’ (The Modern World)
Modernity and modernism: the emergence of the post-medieval world and the formation of the prevailing modern outlook; the triumph of scientism; modernist and perennialist critiques of scientism; the pseudo-mythology of ‘Progress’.
Metaphysics and the Spiritual Life (The Eternal Present)
Metaphysics as the ‘science of the real’; the inter-relations of metaphysics, theology and philosophy; the moral concomitances of gnosis; the nature of ‘spirituality’; Virtue and the virtues; prayer.