Frithjof Schuon Archive
Featured Books
Gnosis – Göttliche Weisheit
The first part of the book deals with questions related to the diversity of religious traditions; the second with metaphysical and anthropological topics, including the insightful essay “Seeing God Everywhere”; the third is devoted to Christianity from the point of view of gnosis.
Featured Poems
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Tantra
When thou seest the True in Mâyâ’s play:In woman, or in the beauty of Nature,Then — says Abhinavagupta — it is God Who shows HimselfIn forms; the form is none other than Âtmâ.This is not idolatry, but deep insight;Those who cling to the letter cannot...
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Religio
Discern what is good in God’s eyes,Whether thou be Jew, Christian or Moslem;Religion does not mean persecuting others,Religio is what binds us to God —And nothing else. The world needs many forms —In God alone are the norms of Eternal Truth.From both sources thou...
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Both
Diverse stars are the homeland of our life:The nearness of God, and remoteness of God;On the one hand, God reveals Himself in all things —And on the other, the world tends toward the naught.Affirmation sees what radiates on God’s earth;Negation wills that all things...
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Wakan Tanka
Indian world: nature and wild grandeur;No lies that cover your proud nakedness.Hardness and beauty; eagle and sun;Battle and prayer is your life’s path.The Great Spirit: in Heaven and in things,In animal and man, in creatures’ struggling;Play, heroism, and never...
Featured Articles
Book Review of “In the Tracks of Buddhism”
Christopher Woodman reviews Frithjof Schuon’s In the Tracks of Buddhism, discussing both the material of the book and the difficult language it is presented in. Woodman calls the book “as difficult as it is important” and “uncompromising”; deeply informative and deeply challenging, the latter due to the terse wording which forces the reader to pay rapt attention. According to Woodman, the book assumes a certain familiarity with Buddhism on the part of the reader, with the exception of the traditions of Jodo and Shinto which are gone into in detail and explained assuming a poorer understanding.
Foreword to “The Fullness of God”
Thoughts on Reading Frithjof Schuon’s Writings on Art
Frithjof Schuon and the American Indian Spirit: Interview with Michael Fitzgerald
It is generally recognized that Frithjof Schuon had a special interest in the spiritual traditions of the American Indians, but only some aspects of his relationship with them are well known. The online journal Vincit Omnia Veritas, which published six issues between 2005 and 2007, interviewed Michael Fitzgerald on the subject of Schuon’s many decades of interest in, and study of, American Indian spirituality in its many dimensions. This interview, posted on the Religio Perennis website, remains one of the most in-depth explications of Schuon’s frequent focus on many aspects of American Indian traditions. Fitzgerald also gives some important historical context to the life and times of Schuon, to his American Indian contacts and friends, and to the work of Joseph Epes Brown, a scholar of Indian Studies and a friend to both Black Elk and Schuon.