Frithjof Schuon Archive
Featured Books
Den Islam verstehen
This book by the great philosopher of religion Frithjof Schuon is considered worldwide as one of the best introductions to the true teachings of Islam.
Featured Poems
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Pneuma
Man lives in two worlds; it is hard
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Outlook
You think you own your earthly life;
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Trinitas
Spirit, Truth, Name — the three high marvels
Featured Articles
The Introduction by The Prince of Wales to the 2006 Sacred Web Conference
This is a transcript of The Prince of Wales’ videotaped introduction to the Sacred Web Conference, “Tradition in the Modern World,” presented on September 23, 2006, at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Prince Charles begins his comments with: “In these uprooted times, there is a great need for constancy; a need for those who can rise above the clamour, the din and the sheer pace of our lives to help us to rediscover those truths that are immutable and eternal; a need for those who can speak of that eternal wisdom which is called the perennial philosophy.” The address continues to outline key points of Traditionalism and the Perennial Philosophy, supporting The Prince’s theme that there are real and positive applications of these points in “finding practical solutions to what, at first, seem to be impossible difficulties – and sometimes to speak for those whose voices are unheard amidst the clamour of Modernism.” The Prince’s insights demonstrate his thoughtful consideration of and interest in the worldview offered by the Perennial Philosophy.
Book Review of “The Transcendent Unity of Religions”
“Signposts to the suprasensible”: Notes on Frithjof Schuon’s understanding of “Nature”
Author Prof. Harry Oldmeadow states that the goal of this essay is to “provide a sketch, largely through direct quotation, of a few of the key principles and doctrines which govern Schuon’s understanding of the natural order.” This can assist us, because today we “witness a plethora of writings on the ‘ecological crisis,’ often well-intentioned and sometimes enlivened by partial insights, but fundamentally confused because of an ignorance of timeless metaphysical and cosmological principles. It has been the task of figures such as René Guénon, Ananda Coomaraswamy and Frithjof Schuon, authoritative expositors of the sophia perennis, to remind the modern world of those principles.”