It is said that humility is the greatest virtue.
What is humility? The devotion
To God’s desire; plus confidence.
He who does not know this, does not have faith.
The German sense poems of Frithjof Schuon form a metaphysical and spiritual whole, which unites the essential teachings of this master in a form as accessible as it is immediate. The quintessential esotericism he presents to us is of the “simplicity” of naked truth. Schuon’s poetry connects with this simplicity and allows the elixir of his wisdom to flow in a musical way. This poetry is direct – by choosing a mode of expression that employs, above all, the aesthetic “shock,” the “mental beauty,” to use Schuon’s term of poetry, and it achieves this by bringing together primordial content and form, by “musicalizing” the geometric doctrinal concepts so as to touch the soul deeply, without detours or rhetorical precautions. As such, in their simplicity and directness, these poems may seem like a final mercy, a bit like a last lifeline thrown to us; mercy of a sage whose life and work can only be understood in the sign of giving, of conveying a core of certainty that is the key to happiness in this world and the next.
Patrick Laude, Georgetown University, Washington
