Primordial man knew by himself that God is; fallen man does not know it; he must learn it.

Primordial man was always aware of God; fallen man, while having learned that God is, must force himself to be aware of it always.

Primordial man loved God more than the world; fallen man loves the world more than God, he must therefore practice renunciation.

Primordial saw God everywhere, he had the sense of archetypes and of essences and was not enclosed in the alternative "flesh or spirit"; fallen man sees God nowhere, he sees only the world as such, not as the manifestation of God.

Frithjof Schuon