Frithjof Schuon Archive

Psychic fog that encumbers the soul —Ignore it, and remain in the clarity Of the Spirit. Inconstant and deceitfulIs the fog of the world. Truth is crystalline.

It is curious how the body needs sleep,And also the soul; then from the east comes the day.And after thy day, with its existential din,Thou too hast a right to a draught of non-existence.

Ye should not be foolishly concernedWith the body, says the ascetic.But who is it who walks upon the earth, And whom ye know not? He carries the remembrance of God.

In Heaven, the soul has the vision of God —But it is not forbidden other vision:The angels, saints, and all who were close to us,Are transfigured in the one vision of God.