Frithjof Schuon Archive
Frithjof Schuon in 1912 (5 years old)
Featured Books
Leitgedanken zur Urbesinnung
Leitgedanken zur Urbesinnung is an early work by Frithjof Schuon, the internationally known and highly honored philosopher of religion.
Featured Poems
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Ignorance
It has been taught: nothing is in the Intellect
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Purification
Water purifies; many rites
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Society
Thou art a man, and among men thou must live;
Featured Articles
Frithjof Schuon and the American Indian Spirit: Interview with Michael Fitzgerald
It is generally recognized that Frithjof Schuon had a special interest in the spiritual traditions of the American Indians, but only some aspects of his relationship with them are well known. The online journal Vincit Omnia Veritas, which published six issues between 2005 and 2007, interviewed Michael Fitzgerald on the subject of Schuon’s many decades of interest in, and study of, American Indian spirituality in its many dimensions. This interview, posted on the Religio Perennis website, remains one of the most in-depth explications of Schuon’s frequent focus on many aspects of American Indian traditions. Fitzgerald also gives some important historical context to the life and times of Schuon, to his American Indian contacts and friends, and to the work of Joseph Epes Brown, a scholar of Indian Studies and a friend to both Black Elk and Schuon.
Thoughts on Reading Frithjof Schuon’s Writings on Art
The ‘Preface’ by Seyyed Hossein Nasr to “Dimensions of Islam”
Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr uses this “Preface” to explain that Frithjof Schuon’s writings on Islam, in this book as well as in others, is noteworthy for its focus on the “integral message” of the Islamic tradition. Schuon’s analyses are, here as elsewhere, free of academic superficialities, bring to light “the most inward aspect of the Islamic message.”