In its more universal sense tradition can be considered to...

In its more universal sense tradition can be considered to include the principles which bind man to Heaven, and therefore religion, while from another point of view religion can be considered in its essential sense as those principles which are revealed by Heaven and which bind man to his Origin. In this case, tradition can be considered in a more restricted sense as the application of these principles.

Tradition implies truths of a supraindividual character rooted in the nature of reality as such for as it has been said, “Tradition is not a childish and outmoded mythology but a science that is terribly real.”5 Tradition, like religion, is at once truth and…