Frithjof Schuon Archive

Worldly creativity — because people fleeFrom God and from themselves. Give heed,Stand still! And pay your debt to the Most High —Then He will watch over everything else.

For Jesus, the Divine Creator was the Father;He himself, the Avatâra, was the Son —And God within man was the Holy Ghost;Salvation, Heaven, was the reward of faith.What Jesus said was for him experience:He himself was the Word, the Book, the Revelation.What came after...

Bhakti and jñâna: mystical experienceIs like an image that enraptures our soul;On the contrary, the idea of the gnosticIs a consciousness that hearkens to the truth.Ecstasy, which is overwhelming like wine,Can, in the realm of gnosis, be sober.

The angel called her “full of grace”;“What manner of greeting” — asked Mary — “is this?”Then she felt: “Be it done unto me according to thy word” — And was filled with the Spirit, with the Kingdom of Heaven.Humble she was, and did not believe easily —And she was...