Frithjof Schuon Archive

Megalomania is certainly a vice;But paranoia is the cry of the evil one;A delusion of grandeur is sometimes mere play —Destructive madness is always satanic.Protect thyself from both: do not overestimate thyself,Remain far from blind passion;For thy soul should stand...

There is something absolute in the soul —Even in combat, thou shouldst not forget this.On the one hand, thou hast the right to be human;On the other hand, thou must measure with God’s eternal measures.

The rights of relativityAre themselves relative; and the rightsOf the Absolute are themselves absolute —One cannot fight over the light of the sun.

My grandmother loved to play her zither,When she thought of her far-off youth;Of the melody of days gone by —Of a time when love still laughed.If only she had known, free from pointless longing,That youth is where we meet God:Then the song of her zither would have...