Frithjof Schuon Archive

The right of the stronger exists in Nature;Someone must survive, and it must be the better.The law of earthly existence wills it so; Yet there is not only the hard law of struggle —To say struggle is to say generosity: for goodnessIs written into the nature of the...

Where Light shines, there stands also the traitor —Judas, Abu Lahab, Devadatta.But when the hero of Light appears in a dream,Thou seest only him, and no evil-doer —For if thou saw’st the latter it would not be true light,But deceit. The evil one cannotShow himself as...

God calls us to account for the smallest things,Yet His forgiveness knows no limits.A contradiction? No, because the Lord erasesWhat we regret with a wise and noble heart —No water purifies as thoroughly As the knowledge that unites with God.

Eckhart: a mortal sin thou shouldst not regret,If thou canst now rejoice in the Grace of God. —Here the Master speaks of Providence,Not of sin as such.May the Lord,Who foresees everything, weave our destinyTill the moment of Grace and all sin is forgiven.