Traditionalism and the Universalist Perpetual Religion

Sedgwick doesn't do a great job of describing what defects traditionalists saw and see. They seem to revolve around spiritual anome and excessive materialism, which are viewed as inevitably leading to collapse and barbarism. There is much talk of ancient wisdom, but nobody seems to think it particularly important to actually identify or specify that wisdom. The only belief that seems evident is in a transcendent deity of some type, source of all wisdom and perfection. And it is not because they are deliberately hidden. In the gnostic manner. Traditionalists wrote many books. As a side dish, there is muttering about the absolute which is indescribable, which may be accurate,