Frithjof Schuon Archive

“Whoso knoweth his soul,Also knoweth his Lord.”“Love thy neighbor as thyself” —This is the kernel of the message.Two sayings, from two Messengers of God —Not everyone has understood them.The I of the neighbor is my own I:The Self of the Most High is Being in...

The Christos Pantokrator is an imageThat ought not to exist in sacred art.“Not made by human hand”?One wonders what the artist meant.This image is a testimony to sentiment and piety —But not to the man Jesus. It seeks to showThe human god; but in realityOne should...

Shri Shankara and Shri Abhinavagupta:Vedanta and Tantra. Both are pathsTo salvation — one to the right, the other to the left,But the two unite on Heaven’s shore,Ending in the same grace of God.Here, renunciation — there, contemplative experience:To interiorize what...

Thou wast born a human being;No better thing can a creature be.Thou hast found the path to God,The best of all possible gifts.So it should not trouble theeIf dark powers rage at thee;Thou knowest what thou wantest — Deo gratias —So let them think what they will.