Frithjof Schuon Archive

What is the primordial substance of an object or a being?Everything has three substances:First, its mere existence; second, its species;And third, whether it represents harmony Or its contrary. Three times the same, And yet different in the creation’s kingdom.

In the realm of thought, the remembrance of God Is objectivizing. In the heart, It is unifying and subjectivizing. It is One,In the distant other as in the profound “we”;The vision of God can be separative or unitive —But all that I can be, I give to Thee.

They love woman and wine, yet they are wise,For they are Sufis. Living simultaneouslyIn the spheres of the world and the hereafter,They can, while still on earth, hear the sounds of Heaven.They live here, but towards the Inward —For all beauty conveys profundity’s...

What is conversion? It is faith in the WordIn this or that form, depending on what we need.One believes that, in a given ship, one can reach the haven of salvation,And arrive in the Hands of God.Conversion is also when disappointed in the world,To finally turn to the...