In Coomaraswamy's own words: “In the first part of this article our intention was to show that what ‘repentance’ really means is a ‘change of mind,’ and the birth of a ‘new man’ who, so far from being overwhelmed by the weight of past errors, is no longer the man who committed them; and in the second part, to outline the doctrine of the duality of mind on which the possibility of a ‘change of mind”’ depends, and to demonstrate its universality; to point out, in other words, that the notion and necessity of a metanoia are inseparably bound up with the formulation of the Philosophia Perennis wherever we find them.”