Frithjof Schuon Archive
| Titre | Résumé | Publication Data | Dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extract from a letter from Frithjof Schuon | Regarding the question of transubstantiation, which I address briefly in Logic and Transcendence, the Oriental character of the words in question can be seen in their use of ellipsis: Christ did not say, “I am like a vine, like a door”, but he said, “I am the vine, the door”; likewise he did not say, “This conveys divine power in the same way my body conveys divine power”, but he said, “This is my body”. | Logic & Transc. p.237 | 02/01/1976 |
| Extract from a letter from Frithjof Schuon | One should not reproach a science for not being what it does not want to be or for not providing what it does not want to provide. In this respect one should not criticize modern chemistry insofar as it studies the phenomena it intends to study, for on its limited plane it remains within adequation and is not exceeding its strengths; nor can one blame it for remaining within the strictly human perspective in relation to matter, for it need not go beyond this point, and indeed no physical science needs to do so. | Logic & Transc. p.235 | 06/22/1964 |
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Das Weltrad 6, 7
En tant que tels, dans leur simplicité et leur franchise, ces poèmes peuvent apparaître comme une ultime miséricorde, un peu comme une dernière bouée de sauvetage que l’on nous lance ; la miséricorde d’un sage dont la vie et l’œuvre ne peuvent être comprises qu’en termes de don, de transmission d’un noyau de certitude qui est la clé du bonheur dans ce monde et dans le suivant.
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Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Modern World
Thou art born into a world that understands nothing,
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Culpa
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Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Animality
Mankind, they say, with reason is endowed,
Featured Articles
Frithjof Schuon And The Perennialist School
Foreword to “The Eye of the Heart”
Professor Huston Smith wrote the « Foreword » to the 1997 edition of Frithjof Schuon’s « The Eye of the Heart. » In it, Smith states unequivocally that he considers Schuon to be « the most important religious thinker of our century. » He explains this by pointing to Schuon’s solution to the thorniest issue facing those who believe in absolute Truth: Must there be only one valid Truth embodied in one religious tradition, thus excluding all others, or can there be another way in which absolute Truth can take on relative shadings, and still remain the Truth? Although Smith gives only brief attention to the specific contents of the book, he does summarize his thoughts with this: « Again in this book, as everywhere in Schuon’s writing, one is struck by the hierarchical, vertical character of his thinking — his depiction of an absolute and transcendent Reality that deploys itself through All-Possibility and ultimately returns to Itself through human beings ‘made in the image of God.' »