The Importance of Anthropology

The term anthropology comes from the Greek roots anthropos ‘man’ and logos ‘treatise’. This then configures the name of this wonderful science under the following terms: treatise about man.

Psychoanalytic anthropology is an essential science, together with philosophy, when it comes to deciphering questions like those of: Who are we? Why do we exist? Where do we come from? What is the meaning of life? Where are we going when it is time to die? etc., etc., etc.

Our association is, therefore, one hundred per cent an anthropological institution, and at the same time a true lover of philosophy with all its manifestations in the development of humanistic thought through the centuries.

Homo nosce te ipsum, declared the Greeks on the frontispiece of the Temple of Delphi, alluding to the need to unravel the mystery of life and death, as the ultimate goal of true philosophy.

And that is the search of our studies and that is why we rely on anthropology and universal philosophy. What interests our institution is to take its members to moral, ethical, psychic, social and moral heights. That plenitude allows the human being to value himself from a higher point of view and, consequently, to value also his environment, his fellowmen and life itself in all its manifestations.

Those who insist on making anthropology an ally of dialectical materialism deserve our respect, although we do not share their criteria institutionally. We think, together with the lovers of humanism, that anthropology cannot be subjected to a merely intellectual interpretation of the inheritance that our ancestors have left us.

Therefore, we recite with Dr Samael Aun Weor:

The Mexican codices, Egyptian papyri, Assyrian bricks, Dead Sea scrolls, strange parchments, as well as ancient temples, sacred monoliths, old hieroglyphics, pyramids, millenary tombs, etc., offer in their depth a metaphysical sense that definitely escapes the literal interpretation and that never had an explanatory value of an exclusively intellectual nature.”

Our institution declares itself a restorer of the eminent truths that have constituted, over time, the cultural baggage that makes human society a transcendental and transcendent whole that justifies its existence.

Finally, we declare, esteemed reader:

“The only perfect cult that can surrender to God is the cult of Truth. That kingdom of God, whose advent is asked for daily, mechanically, by millions of tongues stained with lies, is none other than the realm of Truth.”

–Unamuno–.

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