Frithjof Schuon Archive

In the Name there is more power than in God Himself —This is what one hears from certain zealots,But not from the wise: to be a hero,There is no need to delude oneself with nonsense,Even if an ideal seduces one’s mind.Give God the honor that belongs to Him alone.

The world would be all right for me —With its meadows and forests, their adornment of flowers,And above them, the limitless sky —If only nothing happened in the world!

Three times does Dante portray woman:Firstly the divine Mary;Then the holy Beatrice; and then Matilda,Who won Dante’s attention by her nobility.Three women did the poet describe —Three ways to love the eternal feminine.

The Holy Virgin is primordial and universal woman;Thus she is also cosmic compassion.She holds the homeless one like her childIn her divine and motherly arms.