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The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: c...

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Gnosis: Divine Wisdom: A New Translation with Selected Letters

In relation to Monotheism considered as such, Judaism stabilized but “confiscated” the Message; Chri...

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Tacitus laughed at the Germanic tribes who tried to stop a torrent with their shields, but it is no ...

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Light on the Ancient Worlds

In our day everyone wants to appear intelligent, one would prefer to be accused of crime than of nai...

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Light on the Ancient Worlds

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one...

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In the Face of the Absolute

This capacity for objectivity and absoluteness amounts to an existential — and “preventive” — refuta...

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Logic and Transcendence

The materialists, or some of them, would have us believe that the brain produces thoughts as an orga...

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Roots of the Human Condition

As for the negation of the Christian Trinity in the Quran - and this negation is extrinsic and condi...

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When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiri...

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Understanding Islam

Existentialism” is a thinkingThat no longer wishes to think; this means the destructionOf the true t...

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Songs Without Names Vol. VII-XII: Poems: Poems by Frithjof Schuon

Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing th...

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Spiritual Perspectives And Human Facts

The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.

The Transcendent Unity of Religions

If Mohammed had been a false prophet. there is no reason why Christ should not have spoken of him as...

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The Transcendent Unity of Religions

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Frithjof Schuon

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Born: 1907-06-18

Died: 1998-05-05

Frithjof Schuon (Switzerland, 18 June 1907 – U.S.A., 5 May 1998) was a Swiss metaphysician and spiritual master of German descent, belonging to the Perennialist or Traditionalist School of thought. He was the author of more than twenty works in French on metaphysics, spirituality, the religious phenomenon, anthropology and art, which have been translated into English and many other languages. He was also a painter and a poet.More