Frithjof Schuon Archive
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The Transfiguration of Man
Traditional wisdom corrects and perfects the image of man by insisting on his divinity, not by making a god of him but rather by taking account of his true nature, which surpasses the terrestrial and without which there would be no reason for his existence.
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Autumn Leaves & The Ring-True Knowledge
Here is true knowledge, vision — there is mere thinking;The heart looks deep into the True —Yet some so-called thinkers believeThat everything must be the fruit of evolution.However: only the modes of expression are historical —The True is free from all...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Primordial Song
Tell me, O Self, where are thy veilsWhich in the world deeply conceal thy Face,And yet reveal it — raysThat fill the Universe with thy PresenceAnd make it precious. Harp of Nature,Bring us gladness, thou the earth’s primordial song!So that the soul, free of all...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Rahmah
“The ray of My Mercy —verily, it came before My Wrath.”Thus spake God;and thus it was transmitted to us.For when the world still was not,there was only blissful goodness.Wrath — it was not yet kindled,it slept within the darkness of possibility.What does this...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Sophia Perennis
Worldly philosophers construct their theses —Each one finds what no one found before;Each one thinks that he has hit the markWith a newly invented system.The gnostic seeks only to explainIn new surroundings what always has been known,Yea, since the origin of man —...
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