The Primordial Tradition

This book is a sample from Primordial Traditions, which in its entirety presents a cohesive and logical approach to understanding spiritual traditions in a cross-cultural context. The term 'Primordial Tradition' is used repeatedly in the works of René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon, but it still remains largely undefined. The clearest description of the Primordial Tradition can be found in a more recent author, Huston Smith. Smith, as a professor of comparative religion, was the first to utilize the term Primordial Tradition as a substitute for perennial philosophy, though as a school of thought the concept predates him by hundreds of years.