Frithjof Schuon Archive

“The Lord possessed me in the beginning of His way —I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.”Thus speaks Wisdom in the Holy Scripture. Because beforeThe world was, there was the Spirit which saw all.Wisdom, enthroned beyond...

Man can act and man can receive;This is symbolized by his two hands.May God grant that, in both circumstances,The will of man turn to the good.The content of our activity can be good,And what we willingly receive can be good:It depends on how we accomplish our free...

Solomon wrote that all is vanity,And that it is wise to scorn everything —But not justice and piety;For our heart should strive for nothing else .It is vanity if we value the ephemeral As if it were our salvation.Justice is one with Wisdom: Thought, will,...

A beautiful woman is a symbol of faith:She is a “yes,” and she is limitless.And what is liberating is an intuition of greatness —In the truly beautiful, even the small becomes great.She is mystery, a path to the Inward;For what she radiates is Infinity —Only in the...