Frithjof Schuon Archive

Seemingly good people, who do nothing to earn Heaven,Are nonetheless evil in their own way.It is not for nothing that one preaches:Be ye true men — be just!For the danger is great: certainly hellCannot be eternal; nevertheless it is without endInasmuch as man loses...

What is the message of the names of high nobility?One thinks of ancestors, heroes, noble striving.Noblesse oblige; the way of nobilityIs indeed to give the best example.But above all its way leads inward:To be conscious of what constitutes man;To give one’s works to...

Quite unsatisfactory — from the earliest times — was the relationshipBetween princes and people; so too, on another plane,Their relationship with religion. The time thus was ripeFor the rift — for the downfall of the world.Men are brothers, in different social...

Every human being has an existential duty —To stand before God, and to stand before his brother;The second is the consequence of the first;And thy prayer is the rudder of the ship of life.The Creator put thee on earth,It is the Spirit that holds the world together.