
Frithjof Schuon Archive

Photo Gallery
- Frithjof Schuon in 1912 (5 years old)
- Frithjof Schuon in 1916
- Frithjof Schuon around 1917
- The young Frithjof Schuon (far left) with his father, mother, and older brother in Basel in 1917
- Frithjof Schuon around 1920
- Frithjof Schuon in 1920
- Frithjof Schuon with his mother (Margarete), and his brother (Erich), 1923
- Schuon with his maternal grandmother, around 1924
- Frithjof Schuon around 1929
- Schuon in Paris, 1929
- Frithjof Schuon in Paris around 1931
- Frithjof Schuon with Father Gall (Erich Schuon) at the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Scourmont, Belgium, 1932
- Frithjof Schuon in 1935
- Schuon at the pyramids, Cairo, 1938
- Frithjof Schuon with René Guénon in Cairo, 1938
- Frithjof Schuon on board the ship to India, via Africa, 1939
- Frithjof Schuon with Father Gall (Erich Schuon) in French army uniform, 1939
- Schuon in Lausanne, 1941
- The Schuon bridal procession, 1949
- The Schuons’ home, near Lausanne
- Schuon’s combined bedroom and prayer room, Lausanne
- Catherine Schuon, Susie Yellowtail, Thomas Yellowtail, and Frithjof Schuon, Switzerland, 1953
- Schuon with his cat, Tigerli—the “little tiger”, 1956
- Schuon with Chief James Red Cloud, 1959
- Frithjof Schuon in the Swiss Alps in the 1960s
- Jackson One Feather, Ben Black Elk, and Schuon, 1963
- Barbara Perry, Frithjof Schuon, Catherine Schuon, and Whitall Perry
- Frithjof Schuon at the Matterhorn
- The chalet at Verbier used by the Schuons
- Frithjof Schuon, Catherine Schuon, Barbara Perry, and Whitall Perry, Lausanne, c. 1964.
- Frithjof Schuon in 1964
- Frithjof Schuon, 1965
- Frithjof and Catherine Schuon in Venice at San Marco
- Frithjof Schuon in 1968
- Frithjof Schuon at the house of the Blessed Virgin, outside Ephesus, 1968
- Frithjof Schuon with Titus Burckhardt in the Swiss Alps, c. 1970
- Frithjof Schuon in 1974
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- Frithjof Schuon with Thomas Yellowtail beside the tipi in the Schuons’ garden in Bloomington, Indiana, autumn 1983
- Frithjof Schuon, 1989
- Frithjof Schuon, circa 1990
- Schuon in later years in the woods near his home in Bloomington, Indiana
- Sunrise over the Schuons’ home, autumn 1981
- Schuon at his desk in his study at home in Bloomington
- Frithjof Schuon in front of his home in Bloomington, around 1990
- The entryway of the Schuons’ home, Bloomington
- The living room of the Schuons’ home, Bloomington
- Schuon on his veranda, 1995
- Frithjof Schuon at his desk, around 1995
Featured Books
Geistige Sichtweisen und menschliche Tatsachen
Metaphysical knowledge and spiritual transformation of man are the main themes of this book, which is a collection of various short texts compiled by Frithjof Schuon himself, giving the reader a glimpse, as it were, into the workshop of this thinker.
Featured Poems
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Scripture
Holy Scripture is infallible. But
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Opposition
One asks: is Mâyâ good or bad?
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-It is Thus
To live with many things, to be oneself a thing,
Featured Articles
Colorless Light and Pure Air: The Virgin in the Thought of Frithjof Schuon
A Schuon Sentence
A. K. Saran’s article appeared in the journal Sophia as part of an issue dedicated to the life and thought of the late Frithjof Schuon. It is a wide-ranging view of some key Schuonian, and thus “Perennialist,” concepts, as Saran focuses on Schuon’s book The Eye of the Heart. A. K. Saran also incorporates much traditional Hindu thought and the words of A. K. Coomaraswamy throughout this exploration of some aspects of Schuon’s thought.