Frithjof Schuon Archive
Featured Books
The Eye of the Heart
The essays collected here cover a wide range of subjects, including the fundamental principles of spiritual symbolism, questions on the afterlife and many invaluable insights concerning the integration of everyday activities into spiritual life.
Featured Poems
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Faithfulness
The noble man is faithful. Faithless is the bad —Even good things are a burden for himWhilst they last. Not so the just man:He cannot tire of noble things.Self-seeking and vain superficiality —The fool seeks and admires what is new.Magnanimity and depth want love and...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Blame
A mysticism that values sentiment aloneAs the way to the Sovereign Good,And praises stupidity as if it were humility —This is sweet illusion. Cling to the True!The rejection of all confessional narrownessIs still a long way from wisdom. Are we all brothers?Magnanimity...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-A Defect
Pettiness is a serious malady;The average man has no greatness of soulAnd cannot know how the noble man feels —How he experiences pleasure, or the blows of fate;How he looks on the meaning and depth of things,Accepts his destiny and trusts in God.
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Reflection
Greatness belongs to God. But its reflectionCan, through grace, also be in man.Never has a great man broken his word;Greatness is to keep what one has promised.Whether lofty words or simple ballads —See to it that they contain God’s Truth.
Featured Articles
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