Frithjof Schuon Archive
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-Society
Thou art a man, and among men thou must live;
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Petition
Praise of God and thanks to God; and then another
Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon-Ridgepath
Man must cling to the essential
Featured Articles
A Profusion of Songs
This chapter from Michael Fitzgerald’s book Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy (World Wisdom, 2010), is a brief overview of how Frithjof Schuon came to write poetry, his reasons for doing so, and the nature of his work, including some examples of the Perennialist sage’s didactic verses.
Hommage d’un ami Indien
Signs of the Supra-Sensible: Frithjof Schuon on the Natural Order
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.”