Frithjof Schuon Archive
About the Site
The Frithjof Schuon Archive constitutes the most comprehensive repository of material pertaining to Schuon’s life and work, including published articles, personal correspondence, private papers, poems, photographs, and works of art. This site also contains archival information related to the “Perennialist School”, of which Schuon was the preeminent exponent. Various summaries of information and different archives allow readers to view the depth and breadth of Schuon’s life and corpus from different points of view.
And, no one translation is adequate to convey the nuance and depth of meaning in the original languages. Reasonable minds often differ regarding the best translation, yet it is not possible to print the same material in multiple translations. This archive therefore preserves multiple translations of the same document in several instances, thus allowing readers to form their own opinions.
Featured Books
Das Weltrad 1, 2
The German sense poems of Frithjof Schuon form a metaphysical and spiritual whole that unites the essential teachings of this master in a form that is both accessible and immediate.
Featured Poems
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Stella Matutina
The Morning Star rises out of the night
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Portrait
Pneumátikos: Wisdom is his blood;
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Life’s Work
The work, a lifelong struggle — first
Featured Articles
Remarks on Esoterism in the works of Frithjof Schuon
Patrick Laude summarizes “the main ideas presented by Schuon on the topic of esoterism, both in his published works and in some of his unpublished texts.” Laude presents a definintion of “esoterism” as understood by Schuon, how in Schuon’s work esoterism is viewed as connected with the exoteric religions, the religio perennis,” and esoterism in the spiritual life.