
Frithjof Schuon Archive

Books by Frithjof Schuon
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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. | German | |
Christentum – Islam: Ausblicke auf eine esoterisch Ökumene | In this work, Frithjof Schuon compares Christianity and Islam and also looks at confessions within these world religions: Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Shiism. | German | |
Das Spiel der Masken (e-Book) | Starting from the principles of metaphysics, Schuon deals with the essence of man, which he characterizes with the terms “comprehensive cognitive faculty, free will, feeling capable of disinterestedness”. | German | |
Das Weltrad 1, 2 | The German sense poems of Frithjof Schuon form a metaphysical and spiritual whole that unites the essential teachings of this master in a form that is both accessible and immediate. | German | |
Das Spiel der Masken | The book is intended for people who are searching for a spiritually grounded understanding of the world and their own lives, an understanding that goes beyond the answers that modern sciences or religions understood only exoterically can provide. | German | |
Das Weltrad 3, 4, 5 | The German sense poems of Frithjof Schuon form a metaphysical and spiritual whole that unites the essential teachings of this master in a form as accessible as it is immediate. | German | |
Das Weltrad 6, 7 | 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. | German | |
Den Islam verstehen [Paperback] | This book by the great philosopher of religion Frithjof Schuon is considered worldwide to be one of the best introductions to the true teachings of Islam. | German | |
Den Islam verstehen | This book by the great philosopher of religion Frithjof Schuon is considered worldwide as one of the best introductions to the true teachings of Islam. | German | |
Esoterik als Grundsatz und als Weg | The content includes a profound metaphysical reflection on the double face of the world based on the concept of the veil, insights into cosmology faithful to tradition based on a doctrine of numbers, and fundamental and practical essays on anthropology: virtues, sexuality, love of God and love of neighbor. | German | |
Esoterik als Grundsatz und als Weg (e-book) | The content includes a profound metaphysical reflection on the double face of the world based on the concept of the veil, insights into cosmology faithful to tradition based on a doctrine of numbers, and fundamental and practical essays on anthropology: virtues, sexuality, love of God and love of neighbor. | German | |
Form und Gehalt in den Religionen (e-Book) | This book is first and foremost about the metaphysical necessity of the diversity of religions and their concrete manifestations. | German | |
Form und Gehalt in den Religionen | The book is intended for people who are searching for a spiritually grounded understanding of the world and their own lives, an understanding that goes beyond the answers that modern sciences or religions understood only exoterically can provide. | German | |
Geistige Sichtweisen und menschliche Tatsachen | Metaphysical knowledge and spiritual transformation of man are the main themes of this book, which is a collection of various short texts compiled by Frithjof Schuon himself, giving the reader a glimpse, as it were, into the workshop of this thinker. | German | |
Geistige Sichtweisen und menschliche Tatsachen (e-Book) | “Geistige Sichtweisen und menschliche Tatsachen” consists of reflections on lore and modern civilization, art, spiritual life, metaphysics and the virtues. | German | |
Gnosis – Göttliche Weisheit | The first part of the book deals with questions related to the diversity of religious traditions; the second with metaphysical and anthropological topics, including the insightful essay “Seeing God Everywhere”; the third is devoted to Christianity from the point of view of gnosis. | German | |
Leben | (hardcover … | German | |
Herbstblätter & Der Ring | The German sense poems of Frithjof Schuon form a metaphysical and spiritual whole that unites the essential teachings of this master in a form as accessible as it is immediate. | French, German | |
Leitgedanken zur Urbesinnung | Leitgedanken zur Urbesinnung is an early work by Frithjof Schuon, the internationally known and highly honored philosopher of religion. | German | |
Das Weltrad | The German sense poems of Frithjof Schuon form a metaphysical and spiritual whole that unites the essential teachings of this master in a form that is both accessible and immediate. | German | |
Lieder ohne Namen IX-XII | The German sense poems of Frithjof Schuon form a metaphysical and spiritual whole that unites the essential teachings of this master in a form that is both accessible and immediate. | German | |
L’Esotérisme comme principe et comme voie (Paperback) | In this book, while starting from the idea that it is authentic esotericism, he explains why this perspective is possible and even necessary, and how it applies to the various planes of human existence. | French | |
Comprendre l’islam (Paperback) | The Muslim world is both close and unknown. Claiming nowadays a larger role in the game of human forces, it attracts attention above all by the most contingent images of itself, that of the violence of Islamist groups, or of the absence of democracy in Muslim countries. | French | |
Images de l’esprit : Shinto – Bouddhisme – Yoga (Paperback) | … | French | |
Logique et Transcendance (Paperback) | A long-awaited reissue of a reference work. | French |
Featured Books
Christentum – Islam: Ausblicke auf eine esoterisch Ökumene
In this work, Frithjof Schuon compares Christianity and Islam and also looks at confessions within these world religions: Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Shiism.
Featured Poems
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Soul Picture
This you must understand: I wish to feel Ânanda
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Ad Astra
Ad astra — to the stars — is the Path;
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Bodhisattva
The Bodhisattva’s graces, it is said,
Featured Articles
Introduction to various poetry volumes by Schuon
“Standing Unshakably in the True” – A Commentary on the Teachings of Frithjof Schuon
Frithjof Schuon’s work can be viewed as explorations of and elaborations upon four essential realities: the “a doctrine of Truth or Reality, and a method of Integration or Realization through Prayer leading to inner beauty or Virtue, or outer goodness or Beauty.” Illustrations of Schuon’s thoughts on these is taken primarily from his didactic poems, adding the element of beauty of expression to the clarity of metaphyical exposition for which he was known.