Frithjof Schuon, eminent spokesperson of the sophia perennis in our time, offers us in this book several essays of great intellectual depth around faith and intellectuality, manifestations of the divine principle, charity, modes of prayer and the six essential aspects of spiritual wisdom. In this important book, Frithjof Schuon addresses a number of fundamental questions about religion itself and, on the other hand, answers the problems of the relationship between religion and the modern mentality, between faith and science. As the author says, the split between faith and science has its roots, paradoxically, in the faith itself, at least in its extrinsic and subjective aspect, in the sense that it has not been sufficiently supported by wisdom or wisdom commentaries. that sentimental reasons have had more weight in the consciousness of the majority than the metaphysical ones. This absence of the intellectual element in faith, coupled with the "intellectual world" dominant since the Renaissance and Descartes which has led to the weakening of contemplative intelligence and religious instinct, makes it difficult for the modern man imbued with the scientific and rationalist spirit, the understanding in its just terms of the symbolic and allusive language of religion. That is why the author says, at a time when the forms of the spirit are threatened both by the unconsciousness of men and by a preconceived hostility, is to situate in a sapiential climate the truths for which man always has lived and should continue to live. Schuon, from his eminently intellectual position, brilliantly analyzes and dissolves all these problems and also devotes chapters to such central questions as the notion of charity or the modes of prayer; finally, in the last chapter, which gives title to the book, recapitulates and summarizes the stages of the spiritual life.