Frithjof Schuon Archive

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...

Joseph in the Bible is an imageThat is oft-repeated in history:At first mistreated by his own people,He finally sits in judgement over them.The beginning of a reign has often beenA darkness of hatred and mockery;Just as the thornbush, grey and misshapen,Unfolds into...

What does a child do who has a sense of grandeur?Thou art a dreamer, his elders say.The child can do nothing, but he can suffer —He wishes to keep what for him is everything;The great and the sacred are his dream.Time passes, and life’s green fades,But the mature tree...

God is the Creator of the Universe. Therefore man,His image, is an artist. Art is good in itself;But since the nature of weak earthly manFalters and degenerates, his art is often bad.Art exists to rejoice the soul —And above all to sow in our world seeds of the...