Frithjof Schuon Archive

Thou who art All — Thou dwellest in the soundOf the Name, Presence of the Highest Truth;The portrait of Thy nature is my consolation —The Light of the Spirit together with Thy Being.Truth and Presence. Divine doctrineIs the uncreated Word of the All-One.Presence — the...

In the spirit of man there is a kernel,And it is infallible. In the language of Jesus,This is the Holy Ghost. It cannot be forgiven if,Out of passion, thou deniest what thou knowest.

In old age, one begins to falter —And to suffer from this or that woe;It seems that the body is no longer really thine —So may the Lord be thy health.

Life is not a closed house; thou, O believer,Livest not only in the here-below.“Where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.”The wise and the pious also live in the hereafter.