Frithjof Schuon Archive
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World Wheel: Poems by Frithjof Schuon Volumes IV-VII
A four-volume collection of spiritual poetry by Frithjof Schuon who wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German.
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Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Words
Of necessity, the wise man uses only the wordsThat language offers him. The foolUses the same words, but uses them up —Do not listen to his speech, stop your ears.For what counts are not the words. ListenTo what they mean; when you speak,You look at the essence of...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Style
Greek art at the time of PericlesCould show us form, but scarcely Spirit.With other peoples, meaning showedMore than form; form had to bow before the Spirit —Whence a style that always distorts form,Yet gives beauty, because it adheres to the Spirit.The body of Venus...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-What God Loves
In Shinto cleanliness is law;It is the same for Hindus and MuslimsAnd many others. But not for all: some thinkThat uncleanliness shows love of God — That care of the body and beauty are a sin,Because they proclaim pleasure and worldliness.The person obsessed with...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Sense of Beauty
Beautiful is what pleases us — so some think,Quite falsely; for one loves what is truly beautiful —If one understands it — because it is beautiful in itself,In the realm of forms and in the realm of sounds.Quite another matter is the question of affinityWith a...
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