Frithjof Schuon Archive
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Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-The Hunter
Man is both warrior and priest —A mediator between earth and Heaven.When man stands before his victim,He brings death, but also reconciling prayer.
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Dawn
Morning shivers over the cypresses,A last dream-image is scattered by the wind.The lark arises, and sings its song of love,While the early star still stands in the sky.Understand, O soul, what gentle beauty says:God’s Goodness is the substance of creation.Let thy...
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-The Home
I am astonished that some peopleDream of glittering palaces, rich rooms,All adorned with gold and precious stones —Where is the happiness? One would rather weep.Too many live in cities badly built,In buildings like the towers of Babel,Cold, hard giants — one lives...
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Travel Meditations
Many questions arise simply because man lets himself be enticed into the domain where questions lie, instead of keeping firmly to the domain of certainty, If a man is confused by something, he should first of all come back to the certainty that it is not this world as such which is important, but the next world, and above all that God is Reality; and he should say to himself: in the face of this truth, which in principle is the solution to all questions, this or that question just does not arise; it is enough if he has the Answer of answers. And then God will give him a light also for what is earthly and particular.
The Three Dimensions of Sufism
“FEAR” (makhâfah), “Love” (mahabbah), “Knowledge” (tarîqah): In Sufism (tasawwuf ), these are the three dimensions or stations of the way (tarîqah); “dimensions” from the point of view of their vocational separation or from the point of view of their coincidence in every spiritual vocation, and “stations” from the point of view of their succession in spiritual development.