Lucy von Dechend (1899-1991) was one of Schuon’s earliest and lifelong friends. In 1924 it was Von Dechend who pointed him toward a book by the French metaphysician René Guénon (1886-1951), which presented a devastating critique of various modern ideologies. The parents of Lucy von Dechend were close friends of the Schuon family. Catherine Schuon relates: “Lucy came to know Frithjof when he was four years old and she was twelve. From the beginning Lucy noticed that Frithjof was a very special child and became very fond of him. When growing up they never lost contact with each other.… She was his first female disciple and remained a faithful friend until the end of her life. She was also the recipient of many important letters which she copied and distributed on Frithjof’s behest to their common friends and later did the same with his articles.”
Christentum – Islam: Ausblicke auf eine esoterisch Ökumene (e-Book)
In this work, Frithjof Schuon compares Christianity and Islam and also looks at confessions within these world religions: Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Shiism.