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Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Reality; the ethic that
in his eminent book “The places man's final end
Perennial Philosophy”, captures in the knowledge of the
an overview of the mystical immanent and transcendent
and metaphysical world via Ground of all being; the
presenting and amalgamating thing is immemorial and
literary extracts from mystical universal. Rudiments of the
traditions. The term was perennial philosophy may
promoted in more recent times be found among the
by Aldous Huxley. However, traditional lore of primitive
Huxley himself believed that peoples in every region
the “phrase was coined by of the world, and in its
Leibniz. (Huxley, 1945: 1) fully developed forms it
According to Roy, Huxley has a place in every one
was deeply influenced by of the higher religions.
Vivekanda's Neo-Vedanta and (Huxley, 1945: 1)
Universalism. Correspondingly,
Huxley maintains that the Thus, as Huxley believes,
perennial philosophy is: (Roy, 2003) even though the divine
The metaphysic that Reality is equally “immanent
recognizes a divine Reality and transcendent” and could
substantial to the world be felt inside the world as
of things and lives and well as outside of it, this
minds; the psychology Reality has genuine associations
that finds in the soul for the way man comprehends
something similar to, or the world, the way he apprehends
even identical to, divine himself, and the way he thinks
and acts in his life. Based on
