Philosophia Perennis: The term philosophia perennis . . . signifies the totality of the primordial and universal truths – and therefore of the metaphysical axioms – whose formulation does not belong to any particular system. One could speak in the same sense of a religio perennis, designating by this term the essence of every religion; this means the essence of every form of worship, every form of prayer and every system of morality, just as the sophia perennis is the essence of all dogmas and all expressions of wisdom. We prefer the term sophia to that of philosophia, for the simple reason that the second term is less direct and because it evokes in addition associations of ideas with a completely profane and all too often aberrant system of thought. [GTUFS: UTradition, The Perennial Philosophy]