Writings of Frithjof Schuon
13 total works
This new edition is a collection of brief passages which focus on the spiritual life, including such simple and concrete aspects as the nature of faith and our relationship with God, the importance of prayer, the meaning of virtue and the significance of beauty in our lives. The selections are taken from Schuon's unpublished letters and papers as well as from his books. The free-flowing arrangement of the excerpts allows the reader to explore the author's writings in an almost carefree manner as if taking a meditative stroll through a garden. This edition has been re-translated and expanded to include 19 pages of additional inspiring passages.
This new edition of philosopher Frithjof Schuon's classic work, "Gnosis: Divine Wisdom", is a fully revised translation of the most recent French edition and contains an extensive appendix with previously unpublished selections from Schuon's letters and other private writings. Schuon, the foremost representative of the perennialist school of comparative religious thought, writes on the diverse aspects of religion and the spiritual life, dealing with themes such as the diversity of revelations, gnosis, love of God and the ability to 'see God everywhere'. This new edition, also, features a series of helpful editor's notes by James Cutsinger, a glossary of foreign terms and phrases and a comprehensive index.
This new edition of Philospher Frithjof Schoun's classic SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVES & HUMAN FACTS is a fully revised translation of the French edition.
SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVES & HUMAN FACTS contains a new extensive appendix of previously unpublished selections from Schuon's letters and other private writings related to the topics covered in the chapters.
Schuon, the foremost representative of the Perennialist school of comparative religious thought, writes on an extraordinary range of subjects, including the limitations of modern civilisation and its modes of thought, the role of aesthetics and symbolism in art and nature, the "way of love" and the "way of knowledge" in religion and the Hindu Vedanta. Of particular interest are the groundbreaking sections on the interplay between love, knowledge and universal virtue in spiritual life.
SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVES & HUMAN FACTS contains a new extensive appendix of previously unpublished selections from Schuon's letters and other private writings related to the topics covered in the chapters.
Schuon, the foremost representative of the Perennialist school of comparative religious thought, writes on an extraordinary range of subjects, including the limitations of modern civilisation and its modes of thought, the role of aesthetics and symbolism in art and nature, the "way of love" and the "way of knowledge" in religion and the Hindu Vedanta. Of particular interest are the groundbreaking sections on the interplay between love, knowledge and universal virtue in spiritual life.
The modern world is characterized by its fascination with relativity and individualism. Into this morass, the writings of Frithjof Schuon enter like a bolt of lightning that both clears the air and brings serenity in its wake. As the pre-eminent exponent of the Perennial Philosophy, Schuon's perspective restores a true sense of proportions in affirming the transcendent Real and then draws all the consequences spiritually and humanly, as well as aesthetically on the plane of forms. At the level of ideas, Schuon is an unsurpassable expositor of first principles and included here are seminal chapters such as Atma-Maya. In addition, one of the reasons he is so widely acclaimed is his fluency in so many "languages of the Spirit." There are gems here from the traditional worlds of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. For anyone who has doubts that the Sacred has not only the first but, also, the final word, these essays definitively lay them to rest.
This new edition of LOGIC AND TRANSCENDENCE, Schuon's most important philosophical work, is a fully revised translation from the French original and contains an extensive Appendix with previously unpublished selections from Schuon's letters and other private writings. LOGIC AND TRANSCENDENCE contains chapters devoted to specifically philosophical questions such as the contradiction of relativism, the notion of the concrete and abstract and the limitations of rationalism; it, also, contains some of Schuon's most succinct theological discussions concerning both Christian and Islamic theology. The last part of the book turns to diverse questions of the spiritual life, including a discussion of the function of the spiritual master and concludes with a study of man and certitude.
Written during the final years of Frithjof Schuon's life, these short teachings and aphorisms are a metaphysical and spiritual summa, distilling the essence of the philosopher's teaching in a form that is at once direct, accessible and synthetic. The book is divided into different sections, including "Beauty", "Human Questions", "Doctrine", "Recollections", "Images" and the "Soul". In these poetic teachings, Schuon speaks directly to the reader, with spiritual insight and counsel that illumines the mind and nourishes the soul. Together, they comfort and inspire the reader to live the life of the spirit more fully, cultivate inner beauty and seek a deeper consciousness of the presence of God.
Schuon's articles on the relationship between Christianity and Islam have profound implications for inter-faith dialogue. Several thought-provoking chapters shed light, from an inward dimension, upon the apparent outward contradictions between these two religions, notably in the field of moral divergences. This new edition is a fully revised translation of the original French edition and contains an extensive new Appendix with previously unpublished selections from his letters and other private writings.
This edition of renowned philosopher Frithjof Schuon's writings on the subject of art, selected and edited by his wife Catherine Schuon, contains over 270 photographs-200 color and 70 black and white. He then deals with the spiritual significance of the artistic productions of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and the Far-Eastern world, while also covering the subjects of beauty and the sense of the sacred, the crafts, poetry, music, and dance, and dress and ambience.
Schuon starts out from the conviction that Knowledge exists and that is an adequation to the Real, which is inseparable from a sense of the sacred -- the ultimate reason for human existence. With a mathematical clarity and musical profundity, these essays address not only the metaphysical foundations of belief but the miracle of human theophany.
