Frithjof Schuon Archive

The idolatrous priests on the holy mountain —Were but dwarfs beside Elias.The smoke of the sacrifice made by the prophetRose up to Heaven — God gave victory to His friend.So make a sacrifice in thy heart for Truth —From the Lord thou wilt receive victory and...

If thou art with God, thou art everywhere and always:Thou art outside space and time —Thereby also in every “here” and “now,”In the limitless-limited dream of Mâyâ.

All-Possibility: the Divine willed to mirror ItselfIn the animal — and so we came to be.God created man in His own image —We are half heavenly spark and half animal.God shows Himself in man’s countenance;Neither animal — nor earth — profanes this miracle.

“God is Real, the world is appearance;The soul is not other than Highest Being.”Thy first guiding maxim. This one comes next:“Beauty is the splendor of the True.”Shankara and Plato; what they saidWas forever inscribed in thy heart.