Frithjof Schuon Archive

The religious zealots who fight each otherDo not know: it is the same warOn God’s side, and for God’s Kingdom.No one loses, there is only one victory —The victory in us, for God — the outward swordIs but a symbol that turns inward.

Islam and Judaism prohibit images —What an impoverishment, the pedants say.The restriction — they do not see this — opens for usMany a path we did not know before.When thou drinkest water, thou drinkest not wine;A thing cannot be itself and something else at the same...

You are surprised that the Christians were persecuted?It was not because they believed in the sacred host.It was because they sought to impose their belief —Because they robbed the Romans of their world.Barely had the emperor himself become a ChristianThan one could...

Jnâna and Bhakti — the paths of wisdom and love —Curious, that Islam’s dogma is jnâna,And that in Islam philosophy,As well as mysticism, appear as jnâna.In Sufism, bhakti is indeed present —But you will always end up on jnâna’s shore. So too the Prophet: he does not...