Frithjof Schuon Archive

The Thunderstorm

This painting by Frithjof Schuon is reproduced on page 95 of the book The Feathered Sun (World Wisdom, 1990). The three warrior/chiefs remain, we might say, “at one” with the natural elements despite the passing storm. The spacial planes are reduced in the image to a two-dimensional space that accepts the fire, the people, the bending trees, the tipis, the birds, and the rainbow. Note the sense of the wind without a naturalistic representation of it (or anything else), a hallmark of Schuon’s approach.

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Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Last Word

The book comes to an end, but not the singing;It lies in space and time and in all things,And yet is spaceless, timeless, beyond form —It is the content and radiance of our existence.The signs of God have their own speech;Thou hear’st it or thou hear’st it not.This...

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Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Women

Wise Solomon had temples builtTo foreign gods, for his belovèd wives;With loving sweetness Magdalene pouredSpikenard oil on Jesus’ feet.On Dante’s thorny path of lifeRavenna’s noble women were a grace.The eternal feminine I wish to praise —Woman’s solace is a favor...

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