Syncretism

We have mentioned the notion of "syncretism", which has been applied arbitrarily to all spiritual knowledge that is in any way based on concepts belonging to diverse traditions and considered in light of a directly apprehended truth; now it is one thing to manufacture a doc- trine by assembling scattered ideas as best one can and quite another to recognize, on the basis of what we willingly call the Sophia Perennis, the single Truth contained in various doctrines. [Schuon, 1970]