Frithjof Schuon Archive

There are three outward animal and human types:First balanced, then light, then heavy;This gradation does not concern our spirit —In the spirit there is neither “less” nor “more.”However: the type can color the spirit’s expression —The word, the language, but not the...

I call horizontal that which is merely of this world,And vertical that which gazes into the heights of the Spirit.Greatness is to be found in both domains —But only the second is Heaven’s bride.Be not seduced by human greatness —Not every genius stands before God’s...

I know a Chinese girl, beautifulAnd lovable, who often serves us,For, in a restaurant, every day,She earns her living as a waitress.Why she looks sad — I do not know;She scarcely speaks, I ask no questions.I only know one thing — that I carry within meHer deeply...

No man has seen the edge of space,The stream of time — who knows when it began?It flowed out of the origin of things,And no one knows its God-willed “when” —The mechanism of the universe, thou wilt never understand.