Frithjof Schuon Archive

I believe in God, whom I have never seen;But as a wise man, I know that He is there.I know it, because I stand before Him;And because I see Him in my heart.What does it mean: I believe in Thee?It must be so —Thou lookest on me.So it is in the realm of the wise:Faith...

The known and the knower: two polesIn space and time. And therefrom comes a chainOf possibilities: experience, which may or may not be; May it be for thy good.I and thou: and then God’s Self in its Essence,From the beginning, and until the final hour.

In the universe there is good and also evil;The evil is mere privation, just a no;The good is born of the yes alone;And it is proof of a Supreme and Pure Being.Were there no God, there could be no good;Without a cause, the world could not exist.Were thine essence not...

Not without reason Virgil was Dante’s guide;For he was one of those rare sagesWho know everything in primordial nature —Who praise God in His deepest mysteries,And who, like Solomon — so often misunderstood —Found, in the mysteries, the path to God.