Frithjof Schuon Archive

The Highest Reality I call Beyond-Being —Then comes Creative Being: it radiates in all the thingsTo which it gives existence; If thou art wise, Thou wilt hear the melody of the angels’ wings.

Pythagoras — he brought the word of Wisdom,So that the Spirit could find support in Truth;And Plato, on the basis of the Eternal True,Brought us the message of the Noble Beautiful —So that, indirectly, it might lead us to Wisdom.For God’s House has more than one...

The jagadguru is an austere sage —He deems the world not worth a button.Quite other is the tantra master, who lovesTo surround himself with a noble ring of beautiful women,And with music. Neither should be criticized —For every wise man will be ennobled by Heaven.

“Little Rose with the golden hairLoved so much to dance;She danced till it was evening,And the moon and the stars were watching.”My father wrote these lines, and with themThere sang his noble violin;He played, and his song was wine —As the sun was sinking down.The...