Frithjof Schuon Archive

Ingratitude: the world’s reward, according to proverb.One gives the best, and gives it willingly.Who would not like to receive a good answer?The best answer is thanks from the Lord.

The core of primordial prayer: God’s NameIs the guarantee of certain salvation,If thou art patient in faith. As seen by God,The way is easy, but human effort is steep.

Wisdom regarding phenomenaIs the perception — by the Intellect — of the essencesOr archetypes. Only what is good allows usTo break through the walls of appearance.In the case of the bad, there is no archetype;Bad is merely privation, not manifestation of Being —It...

Why is there existence? — that is the question.Why is there not just nothing? Because BeingIt is the necessity to be: because one thing was created,Then two things, yea, the whole expanse of the universe.Possibility burst into nothingness:This is the cause that we...