Vladimir Lossky on 'Traditionalism'

'...one does not remain in the Tradition by a certain historical inertia, by keeping, as a “tradition received from the Fathers” all that which, by force of habit, flatters a certain devout sensibility. On the contrary, it is by substituting this sort of “tradition” for the Tradition of the Holy Spirit living in the Church that one runs the most risk of finding oneself finally outside the Body of Christ. It must not be thought that the conservative attitude alone is salutary, nor that heretics are always “innovators.” If the Church, after having established the canon of Scripture, preserves it in the Tradition, this preservation is not static and inert, but dynamic and conscious—in the Holy Spirit, who purifies anew “the words of the Lord... words that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times” (Ps. 12:6). If that were lacking, the Church would have conserved only a dead text, witness of an ended epoch, and not the living and vivifying Word...'.

(V. Lossky writing on "Tradition and Traditions" in In the Image and Likeness of God, pp. 155-156.)