Adastra, Stella Maris, Autumn Leaves, The Ring
They say humility is the greatest virtue.
What is humility? Devotion
In God’s desire; and in confidence.
The one who does not know this does not have faith.
The German poems of meaning by Frithjof Schuon form a metaphysical and spiritual whole which unites the essential teachings of this Master in a form which is as accessible as it is immediate. The quintessential esotericism which he offers us is of the “simplicity” of naked truth. Schuon’s poetry combines with this simplicity and allows the elixir of his wisdom to flow in a musical manner. This poetry is direct – through the choice of a form of expression that uses above all the aesthetic “shock”, the “mental beauty” to use Schuon’s designation of poetry, and this it achieves through the merging of original content and form, through a “musicalization” of the geometric teaching concepts, in order to deeply touch the soul, without detours or rhetorical precautions. As such, in their simplicity and directness, these poems may seem like a last mercy, a little like a last lifeline thrown to us; the mercy of a sage whose life and work can only be understood in the sign of giving, the mediation of a core of certainty which is the key to happiness in this world and the hereafter.
Patrick Laude, Georgetown University, Washington
