Frithjof Schuon Archive

The Christmas tree that stood in the center —A childlike foolishness I would like to forget,If its deep meaning were not so evident.I dreamt that I was sitting under its shelter,In its warmth that evoked Heaven —Protected as in a golden vesselWith a sweet scent....

The same thing can never repeat itself:All-Possibility excludes repetition,Because the latter would limit the former;The nature of things ordained it thus.This is certainly true, yet each of us seesThat similar things are forever piercing through time anew;It is how a...

Space must repeat forms endlessly,Otherwise there would be only one single form —But no form is exactly like another,For only the Essential is the norm.Thou thinkest one grain of sand is like another —It only appears so to our sight!Thou canst not find on earth two...

India is Shankara together with Vedanta —Also Ramanuja, Abhinavagupta,And Lallâ Ygishvarî; and finallyTiruválluvar, the holy pariah.Thus India is an entire world;Characteristic of this world is the Veda’s light —And also the fact that it contains every spiritual...