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Leitgedanken zur Urbesinnung is an early work of Frithjof Schuon, the internationally known and highly honored philosopher of religion. This edition is the third German edition (after: Zurich 1935 and Freiburg i. Brsg. 1998). But the term Frühwerk should not mislead, this is a text of extraordinary depth and intellectual brilliance. In individual, longer and shorter reflections and thoughts Schuon tries to fathom the Urlehre, that knowledge of the last connections, which is veiled in forms, which manifests itself in forms, which always returns in a new form throughout the ages of man and which remains eternally the same. With his thoughts, which are the fruit of pure spiritual contemplation, the author wants to lead the reader to a world view, which embraces the whole man and is at the same time alive and profound. Outwardly, Schuon’s reflections are almost incoherent, but inwardly they are coherent and unambiguous. Thus, this book lies before us like a circle of thoughts never become and never decided; it seems to be without origin and without end. Finally, let the following be said: in a time when the disrespect and destruction of the German language are the order of the day, the sense of the dignity, indeed the sanctity, of the language represents more than ever a very essential value; and I would like to emphasize without false modesty that this concern belongs, as it were, on the periphery of the metaphysical content, to the spiritual message of this book. (from the author’s preface)
