This painting appears as the frontipiece in The Feathered Sun (World Wisdom, 1990). It is titled “The Council”, and its date is given as 1963. In it, three Plains chiefs pass the sacred pipe between themselves while sitting before a council fire.
In this new edition of his powerfully original work, Schuon covers an array of metaphysical, cosmological, and anthropological subjects.
The book comes to an end, but not the singing;
Truth, Way, then noble
This you must understand: I wish to feel Ânanda
The theomorphic nature of man is a central theme in the oeuvre of Frithjof Schuon. Scott surveys Schuon’s key theomorphic teachings while touching upon the symbolism of the body and man in the wider context. Scott applies three categories within which he examines Schuon’s teachings on man’s theomorphic form (i.e. the body): (1) man’s divinity and animality, (2) the symbolism of the sexes, and (3) the meaning of sacred nudity.