Frithjof Schuon Archive
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The Play of Masks
“The great ambiguity of the human phenomenon resides in the fact that man is divine without being God.”
Featured Poems
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-The Hourglass
Look at the hourglass: one half is fullAnd the other empty, depending on one’s standpoint.Its symbolism: where is the “yes” and the “no”In the universe — what are hour and sand?When thou seest fullness in the bustling of the world,Then God will seem to thee as void,...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Credo
Faith pours out for us the sacred Truth;Truth pours out for us the wine of faith.Intelligo ut credam, one could say —One mode of faith can exceed the other.First there is faith: to feel that God must be;And then: to bear the divine Selfhood within oneself.
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Words
Without a doubt, man’s words pass away,Like everything that is of this earth;But do not think that they are swept off by the windWhen they flow from a pen filled with the Spirit —When they stand written in the stars.
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Marginal Remark
The pen has the right to repeat truths;They are never expressed in the same way.It is as if I wished to give new answers —As if a spirit inside me had asked a question.Whether you prefer it once or several times —A true word is a whole universe.And so is beauty: let...
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