Cosmic Ecumenism
Son of Mother India despite his western theological-philosophical education, through his life experience he realizes that
Certainly Mother India is a great mosaic and the cradle of Indo-Aryan culture, of the Vedic and Buddhist culture, of the Dravidic civilization, of the Muslim and Moghul heritage, of the British, Iranian and European culture, of the Sakha and Mongolian ideals, all gathered together and merged into one living family composed of numerous nations, peoples and cultures. (Cosmic Ecumenism, 168)
The only Reality is the One without a second, all creation is nothing but the manifestation of the Absolute in its infinite names and forms called in Sanskrit "nāma" and "rūpa".
His thought is based on the absolute equality between Eastern and Western philosophy, starting from Indo-Vedic philosophy, to Greek philosophy, to Western thought linked to Christianity. What changes is the language, the words that are used, but there remains a basic similitude that can be summarized in the evangelical words of Jesus "I and my Father are One".
In the life of each of us there is a moment in which we will have to decide whether to move towards a better future in this life and in the next, or descend a step, that fateful step that will keep us linked to biological life, immersed in the ocean of saṃsāra and chained to the wheel of inexhaustible births and deaths, while instead, thanks to the magic touch of Holy Gnosis or Aghia Sophia, man could free himself from the veiling power of Māyā, the Great Cosmic Illusion in which he feels imprisoned for all the time he stays in the coils of the Avidya or spiritual ignorance. It is this ignorance that makes us accept and seek what is vanishing as if it were permanent, what is illusory as the Real, what is pleasant like Bliss and what eventually causes death like Giver of Life. We must instill in the hearts of our youth malleable experimental knowledge of God as the Self within us, the Ātman Immanent in all creatures, as an inner God, transcending our individual self, the Brahman All-pervading, which is the Cause, the Incaused Cause, the Origin, the Middle and also the End of the whole universe. This knowledge can not be obtained through a dogmatic theology or popular liturgical practices belonging to the various Christian, Hindu, Muslim religious institutions or any other religion. It can only arise thanks to the vision, Darśana, of those Masters and Guides who have known and realized God through direct experience, and who can therefore point the way, almost always obscure, to all the pilgrims of the world, sent to this earth to acquire that Wisdom that emancipates and enlightens us, Wisdom that is the culmination of years of study, intense work, abandonment, reflection, meditation and heartfelt prayer. (Cosmic Ecumenism, 27-28)
To make the unity of the philosophical and religious paths understand in a simple and immediate way, it stimulates meditation on the so-called "Mandala of the 8 Paths" created in the 1930s by J.B. Sparks and reworked in English and Italian. On the outermost circumference we can find the various scientific-philosophical disciplines that can help the student in Self-Research. Eight are the main paths, but others can be looked for and developed as the same P. Anthony tries to stimulate. The central circle represents theSat Chit Ananda, the Being Awareness Bliss, the Ens Verum Bonum, in the center of which is inscribed in a triangle the symbol of the sacred syllable AUM, representing the four states of mind and at the center of which the small point symbolizes the Self which makes all One, "the One without a second".
