In Alchemy, there is the concept called the Perennial Philosophy, which they say is the one true philosophy of the world. This means that common mystical concepts keep reappearing through different cultures and time periods and are all innate. Alchemical author Dennis Hauck describes the Perennial Philosophy like this: 

 

"One of the reasons for the endurance of alchemy through the ages is that it’s based on a fundamental philosophy that has exhibited tremendous staying power in the human mind. The alchemists call it the “One True Philosophy of the Whole World” and believe it was first revealed to humanity in ancient Egypt. It is also known as the “Perennial Philosophy” because, down through history, it has always resurfaced in some form despite many successful attempts by orthodox authorities to suppress it.

 

To perform his transformation, the alchemist attempts to understand and connect with the unseen reality behind the manifested world. The basic idea of the Perennial Philosophy is that certain universal truths are common to all cultures and systems of knowledge. The German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz first used the term in this sense, when he defined it as the eternal philosophy that underlies all religions. The term, further refined by twentieth-century philosopher Aldous Huxley, has come to mean the most basic and everlasting universal truths sensed by all human beings." 

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A concept that is similar to the Perennial Philosophy is the Prisca Sapientia, which means "ancient, or original, wisdom" as explained by Lawrence Principie in The Secrets of Alchemy 

 

"Chymistry itself became one part of a broader “Hermetic knowledge,” traceable not just to Hermes but to the most distant­ and venerable past, to a body of knowledge known as the “original wisdom” (prisca sapientia) revealed by God to the ancient patriarchs­—in some versions to Adam himself—and passed down from generation to generation. Unfortunately, this knowledge gradually eroded along the way, corrupted by successive transmission; pagan mythology was actually­ a degraded, misunderstood version of that original knowledge, hence the possibility of and need for interpreting it." 

 

The Prisca Sapientia can also be called the Prisca Theologia. It is a doctrine that asserts that a single, true theology exists which threads through all religions and was anciently given by God to humans. The concept of Prisca Sapientia was a common belief of many scholars during Isaac Newton’s lifetime, with Isaac Newton not only believing that the ancient writings had hidden sacred knowledge in them, but also the ancient temples, particularly Solomon’s Temple, "Newton felt that just as the writings of ancient philosophers, scholars, and biblical figures contained within them unknown sacred wisdom, the same was true of their architecture. He believed that these men had hidden their knowledge in a complex code of symbolic and mathematical language that, when deciphered, would reveal an unknown knowledge of how nature works." 

 

The main difference between the Perennial Philosophy and Prisca Sapientia is that with the Perennial Philosophy, the sacred truths are out there to be found, mixed in with the corruptibility of the world, and with Prisca Sapientia, those sacred truths have been diluted over the millennia. A way to reconcile the two is to say that in the Prisca Sapientia there was only the Perennial Philosophy.

 

The Eastern religions have a lot more of the Perennial Philosophy than the Western and Middle Eastern ones, with all their dogmatism and legalism. Hinduism, according to the book called What is Hindusm, by David Frawley, is a religion that has always existed since the beginning of the Universe and will continue existing for indefinite eons of time. To put it another way, the core concepts of Hinduism are the things that have always existed and will always exist, 

 

"The teachings of Sanatana Dharma in this way are both eternal and ever new. This is its two-fold beauty. It abides in timeless reality. This means that the Hindu tradition is not only the oldest of the world’s religion; it is also the newest. On one hand, having no founder, it goes back to beginning-less time. On the other hand, being recast by living sages in every generation, Hindu Dharma is always adjusted to the present moment. The Hindu religion provides not only the oldest teachings in the world but living exponents of it in every age, great gurus who have realised the Divine Self. Sanatana Dharma teaches us that we are all the same Divine Being and that we must realise it within our own lives. It is a religion that is coterminous with life itself. Seeing no final goal within the realm of time, Hinduism is thought by some to stand outside of the progressive movement of history, or to oppose it. However, being oriented in the eternal, Hinduism sees the final goal as present within each moment of time. It is not bound to a history that makes us look to the future, but teaches that the eternal itself pervades all the waves of time." 

 

"Sanatana Dharma, which means the eternal tradition, as the original name for Hinduism, has no specific origin in time. Its origin coincides with the beginning of the universe itself. Sanatana Dharma as the universal dharma arises anew with each cycle of creation, being inherent in the very laws of nature. Because it has been formulated in terms of Sanatana Dharma, there is no specific point in history when we can say that the Hindu tradition began. As it does not have an origin, Hinduism has no end either. It does not look to any end of the world or last judgement. It will continue throughout the future of this and all other possible worlds as the expression of the cosmic life and its underlying laws. Hindu Dharma is based upon universal principles like the law of karma, which are true in all places and all times. Though its names and forms may vary, its principles are unchanging and must be discovered by all creatures in every world of existence. The origin of the true Dharma is within us as the root of our deepest thoughts and the basis of our highest aspirations. This is because we contain the entire universe within our own hearts as Vedic teachings proclaim." 

 

This website is Gnosticism and Hermeticism but with the addition of Void Philosophy which is a new and obscure form of mysticism. Void Philosophy is the idea that God and the soul are in the cancellation of the material realm and space and time. This is the narrow gate that Jesus Christ said to pass through. The narrow gate is the size of a Singularity and the only way through that is to empty oneself. This type of Gnosticism is called Kenosis to Gnosis. Kenosis is a Greek word meaning to empty and it appears in the Bible a few times as well. Gnosis means knowledge of the True Self and Kenosis is that key to allow one to become none so they can pass through that narrow gate to knowledge. Void Philosophy is an idea whose time is starting to come in the age of Singularities but is known by very few people.

 

Click on the picture below to go to Void Philosophy.  

 

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