Frithjof Schuon Archive

Thou hesitatest before the sword of the Highest Truth —Thou fearest that wisdom may rob thee of thy being,Thou, who art not. What must come, will come —And it is God. In Him thou shalt not want.

Kaleidoscope — a children’s toy,But also an image of our soul:A fleeing-from and a chasing-afterThat forget the meaning of existence.The soul builds itself a world from fragments,And divides into pieces what it has experienced.See thou, O heart, things as they are...

There are three kinds of giving: the firstIs sacrifice, expiation, purification and equilibrium;The second is enrichment —A radiation that breaks the ice of hearts.The third giving is squandering —It comes from the evil one, it is fundamentally a stealing,A way from...

What in Sanskrit is called tamas,In Arabic is called waswas, “whisperer”:The darkness that men carry within themselves —It cannot be otherwise on this low earth.The serpent was present in the first ParadiseWhen our world was in its prime,And Heaven was still joined to...