Frithjof Schuon Archive

After nearly two thousand yearsThe altars in the churches were turned around,Thus disfiguring a maternal face;Mother Church — one can no longer recognize her.Similar things occurred in other areas —One no longer knows in which house to dwellSince the innovators mowed...

We do not criticize the good missionaryBecause through his preaching the words of Christ resound;We criticize him because, at the same stroke,He brings with him the world of deadly machines,And diabolical ugliness —Not the paradisal fragrance of Eternity.It is painful...

Miserable are philosophersWhen they try to explain to usWhat the world is, and why —And what and how we should think.For this we have long known,From the sages of old.All that is new is that one mustImpart it to new men.All these little minds are proudOf their...

When people engage in something shamefulBefore the whole world, they call it “courage”;The good, they call “prejudice” —Ripe are the hypocrites for the fire of hell.It is certain that there must be a hell,For one can see it in the hellish life of men.