Frithjof Schuon Archive

Several lives, but within one life —This was my path; and within it, several deaths;And may God grant — since I have seen so much —That others may inherit my message.And ask not who I am. For every strivingOn High is given by the Holy Spirit.

Peace and joy are the two polesOf happiness conferred by God’s Truth;They are the two paradisal gardensOf the human soul that loves the True.Peace comes when the afflicted soulSerenely soars above its cares;And joy: when, full of divine solace,It strives inward, away...

God’s Truth radiates beauty —Thou livest from beauty just as thou livest from the wordOf Truth that ordained the whole universeAnd willed each symbol in its proper place.There is no wisdom without noble meaning;There is no beauty that bespeaks not God;The essence of...

Motionless center, outside time,In God’s presence. The world-wheelKnows no halt, but thou see’st it not,For the Spirit put thee in the center,Yet thou art in existence, and must live with other men,Thou must enter into the play of the world-wheel,And from thence must...