ABSTRACT
One of the consequences of the loss of sacred science in the modern world is the development of the concept of indefinite human progress through material evolution, a concept which became almost worshipped for nearly two centuries as a dogma in a pseudo-religion which only now is being exposed as the illusion that it always was. The modern dilemma is due to a large extent to this central superstition of the modern world whose consequences in the destruction of the natural environment and much of the social structure of societies for which it became the sole guiding principle is evident every where today. Criticism of it is therefore of the utmost importance if one is to assert the reality of tradition and to rediscover and reformulate the sacred science of which the contemporary world is in such a great need.
