Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) left a considerable written work of some thirty books focusing on traditional metaphysics and spirituality.
In addition to this profound and rigorous work, and under the aegis of a famous formula of Dante’s Divine Comedy, which he liked to quote, the reader will discover here private meditations, some of which constitute the pages of a spiritual journey while others relate contemplative impressions evoked in contact with a sanctuary or a natural site.
We will discover a long evocation of the atmosphere of the primordial world of the American Indians that Schuon experienced in the fifties and sixties, to the point that they definitively inspire his painting and his vision of the world.
It is clear from the outset that to him, the external journey is only in support of a spiritual journey. On the way, the spiritual experiences a death in life, and this inner death is none other than the deepest meaning of the vocation of the gyrovagues, those spirituals of all traditions who, “sons of the way”, intend to free themselves from all moorings in the abandonment at the great sea of God. All life is a journey from birth to death, but spiritual life is characterized by a refined awareness of the inner meaning of this journey, for “he who dies before he dies does not die when he dies”, as the saying goes. In this inspired spiritual, travel and meditation merge and open up new horizons for us.
