Frithjof Schuon Archive

There is a thinking without images,That takes delight in principles alone;Then there is the realm of symbolism,Where Truth is combined with images.Each kind of thinking must exist in its proper place;Different intentions require different expressions;The essential is...

I saw a naked woman in a dream;She came, walking through a field of flowers,With floating steps, as only an angel walks.I was a child; I asked her who she was —“I no longer think,” was the woman’s reply.She was the refuge of Beauty and Love,This I knew. Then she took...

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.

“One should not praise the day before the evening.”But neither should one criticize life’s dream;For whatever good thou hast woven into this dream —God will reward thee on the Day of Judgement.