Frithjof Schuon Archive

The spirit of the Enlightenment was the edge on whichI very early found the True.I say the “edge,” and not the kernel of the thing,For never would I have forsaken my Lord.God is not church, even if one feels it so —One cannot confine God to dogmatics.In some...

In time and space, a being has two limits and one content:Birth and death, and between them life;Body and spirit — the content is the soul.Thou must not confuse these things.What counts in space? Neither body nor soul,But the Spirit, which gives everything its...

Confronted with trials in life Say to thyself: it will be good, or better, later;But also: the play of the world-wheel is indifferent —Let God’s providence rule on earth.

Corpus, anima, spiritus:We are corpus, as stones are;We are anima, as animals can be;We are spiritus through the wind of the Holy Ghost.So let us do what the Spirit requires:Where there is power, there are also duties.The child of man belongs to the Sovereign Good.