Frithjof Schuon Archive

Intellect, and also reason, are like the sun;The psyche and sentiment are like the moon.Intellect is day, in it everything is clear;But the psyche’s play lives in the dark.A symbol is multivalent, and held in honor —The sacred resounds in all spheres of existence.

The Great Absolute — I wishTo say it a thousand times — is more powerful thanAll the cares of the soul. In its rayIllusion disappears, and the heart is safe.

Birth and death: entering the earthly worldIs more painful than leaving the earth.Understand: birth is also a kind of death;But death in the Most High shoothes all suffering,Because Heaven’s light receives the soul. God-remembranceIs also a death — but one in which...

The sun, a heavenly image made of gold and light,A symbol of Being, that rules the world.And then the silent moon, a silver shield —Yet it possesses no light of its own.So the moon is like Existence,Whose face can only reflect what is unique,And as the Unique, breaks...