Opera Omnia (Vol. 8): Trinitarian and Cosmotheandric Vision (HB) | By Raimon Panikkar (Author), Milena Carrara Pavan (Editor), Dr Karan Singh (Foreword), Kapila Vatsyayan (Foreword) | MLBD Publications

The pages of this volume dare to speak of this Reality which we call “Mystery”. The trinitarian vision of reality is not limited to the concept which it is usual to call Christian: it is much broader and more universal. With more or less clarity, humankind has always been aware of a higher Mystery, transcendental to, or immanent in, Man. If we heed how humanity has expressed its comprehension of itself and the cosmos, we may glimpse three major visions: the monist, the pluralistic (which, in the final analysis, is dualistic), and the a-dualist view. From a metaphysical perspective, the three definitions correspond to the three main worldviews of human history. Another a-dualist approach to reality is the cosmotheandric vision. This vision tells us that Reality is neither formed from a unique, indistinct block – be it divine, spiritual or material – nor from three or from a three-tiered world: the world of the Gods (or of Transcendence), the world of Men (or of Consciousness) and the physical world (or the world of Matter), as if it were a three-storey building. Reality is made up of three inter-related dimensions (the trinitarian perichôrêsis), so that not only does one not exist without the other, but all are intertwined within a relationship of inter-in-dependence.

Opera Omnia (Vol. 8): Trinitarian and Cosmotheandric Vision (HB) | By Raimon Panikkar (Author), Milena Carrara Pavan (Editor), Dr Karan Singh (Foreword), Kapila Vatsyayan (Foreword) | MLBD Publications