Frithjof Schuon Archive
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Sentiers de Gnose
Islam starts precisely from the idea that the infinitely transcendent God is at the same time infinitely close, – “closer than your jugular artery”, – so that he surrounds us and penetrates us, in the religious experience, like a kind of luminous ether, if it is allowed to use such an imaginative expression; the only necessary intermediary is our own attitude, el-islâm, whose central element is prayer in all its forms.
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Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Manifestation
God has manifested Himself;This is the value of Creation.Manifestation means separation;The Divine Ray remains untouched.God has driven BeingDeeply into nothingness.And yet it is written:World cannot be divine.The heart wants to be holyAnd stands before God’s gate.If...
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Grace
What does it mean that thou art in God’s Hands?Does it mean that God has ordained thy fate?God’s will is that thou shouldst freely decideWhat liberates thy soul from folly’s weight.Within All-Possibility, man created himself:He is what he wished to be.He wished his...
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Mystery
My God, I must indeed be who I am —If I were someone elseI still would be, in this vast world,The self-same wanderer.Rare is the human being who resembles ThatWhich must be —Thou, O Lord, lookest on the changing play of souls —Thou alone art “I.”It is written: the...
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-The Enigma
The world-sea, with its good and bad,Earthly vanity with its false plenitudeAnd din; who can resolve the enigma?Be still, my heart; abide in the Silence of God.Under heaven’s vault, what bears witness to EdenIs not worldly; let not thy mind torment thee:Beauty is not...
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