Frithjof Schuon Archive

The world is a hierarchy of spheres —The higher penetrates the one that follows it;Creation goes from above to below,And not from left to right on the same plane.Gnosis teaches the emanation of light;The spheres of the universe are contained in us.But modern science...

Thou art woven into a particular time,And must experience what others dream;Then suddenly, after all the up-and-down and to-and-fro,The nightmare vanishes —No golden apples hung on the trees.What once was real — it is no more.

Humility and goodness are offered by Nature —God grant that such a man may also be strongIn what he does, for weakness leads to nothing.Pride and wickedness are from the devil.

I would prefer not to speak of bad things —But they are there, and I must take account of them.So let us talk of things that are useful —But one cannot teach without saying “no.”