Frithjof Schuon Archive

Nomadic Semites are iconoclasts;Aryans and others are iconodules.In an image made for worship, there can be benediction —But it is dust; only God, the Spirit, will be victorious.In Mecca, heathens had placed, along with other images,An image of the Blessed Virgin on...

Frithjof sought the hand of the king’s daughter, Ingeborg;The maiden’s brothers saw in him an enemy and shame.After many adventures, he finally came home;He was victorious, and won wife, throne, and country.It was the same with Joseph in the Bible:Because of jealousy,...

Herr Frithjof Thorsen was a ship’s captainIn the storm-lashed fjords;My father was his friend, whence my name —A symbol from the distant, white North.

An injustice must not be allowed, just as the clock of life,To persist in the stream of time;Such would be a mockery of justice. Patience is ours,Vengeance is God’s — and the clock stands still.