Frithjof Schuon Archive

Humility is the cord that holds togetherAll the beads — the other virtues;So said the Curé d’Ars. If the cord breaks —See how the array of virtues collapses into nothing.

“Beauty is the splendor of the True” —And Truth is the essence of the beautiful:This conclusion is implicit in Plato’s thinking.He did not wish to spoil us —He wished to give us the doctrine in one phrase.

Almost terrifying is the skyThat thou see’st at night in the Far North —When, in the limitless, the spirit’s eyeReads the myth of the whole creation.

In the sky shines the sun which God conceivedAs the image of another Sun, whose lightNo earthly eye can reach —Earth cannot see Divine Mystery.The sun’s splendor, standing proudly in the sky,Is not eternal — see how it sets.