Frithjof Schuon Archive

There is a space through which thou must pass;It is thy destiny. Its narrow wallsThou canst not break down. So seeIf there is not another way out.The way out exists, but it is upwards;If thou findest it, thou mayst praise the Lord.Will this be the end of destiny’s...

The hero, the saint; what they meant for meI had to hide from people;The Truth was too profound, even if it were a dream —My elders told me: dreams are like froth.At school I lived among the Bible’s palm trees —With David’s harp and his Psalms.What I received there, I...

Al-Qutb — the “Pole” — he is called in Arabic,And Jagadguru is the Sanskrit word:“Master-Teacher for the whole earth” —Not only for this or that place.Ye may tend towards a narrow credo —But the voice of the primordial age must be.Who is this Master? Someone who can...

Plato’s thinking tended Upwards,Aristotle’s thinking tended towards the earth;Similar is the relationshipthat we find between ShankaraAnd Ramanuja in India;both spiritual edificesHad to be built,each one to shape a specific world.Greece and Indiaare not on the same...