Frithjof Schuon Archive

Opportet — it is said — haereses esse;And also: felix culpa. For evil is quite oftenThe cause of a good change;And one who errs without pride becomes better.It often seems that the world-wheel turns in a bad way.But essentially its action is right.The sun gives us the...

One of the most difficult problems in metaphysicsIs that of possibility; so saidAn arch-pedant, who had dissected everything —And for whom, it seems, there was nothing left to know.Difficult metaphysical problems do not existWhen thou hast grasped the nature of...

There are truths so precious thatOne wants to say them more than once.Just as, from year to year, the flowers bloom,So poetry too has a right to repetition.

There is what we experience in the outward world;And then what we think within ourselves —Each is a to-and-fro and an up-and-down;And may God direct us to the meaning of life.“Man proposes, God disposes” — man experiences freely,But on paths that are woven by...