Frithjof Schuon: 41 books

RÉNÉ GUÉNON (1886-1951) was the founder of the Traditionalist School. Along with Ananda K. Commaraswamy and Frithjof Schuon, he reintroduced traditional metaphysics and esoterism into Western world after a lapse of centuries, and was perhaps the first to present the doctrines of the Vedanta, Taoism,...

"Den Menschen umgibt die schwindelerregende Vielzahl der Erscheinungen; das vollkommene Erkenntnisvermögen besteht darin, die Einheitlichkeit und die Äußerlichkeit dieser Erscheinungen in Bezug auf eine alles übersteigende Einheit und eine geeinte Innerlichkeit wahrzunehmen." Frithjof...

"Es gibt Wahrheiten, die dem menschlichen Geist innewohnen, die aber nach Lage der Dinge gleichsam in der Tiefe des Herzens begraben sind, das heißt, dass sie als Möglichkeiten oder als verborgene Kraft im reinen Geist vorhanden sind: Dies sind die Grund- und Urwahrheiten, diejenigen, welche...

Esoterik ist für Frithjof Schuon die Innenseite oder der Kern der Religion, deren Außenseite oder Hülle die Exoterik ist. Dieses Buch ist eine Fundgrube dafür, was Esoterik vom metaphysischen Grundsatz her und im Hinblick auf die Verwirklichung durch den geistigen Weg bedeutet. Es enthält Kapitel...

Religion scholar Huston Smith called Frithjof Schuon "the most important religious thinker of [the 20th] century." In this revised edition of his classic work, perennialist author Frithjof Schuon addresses diverse aspects of the religious phenomenon with his characteristic authority. In the book’s...

»Die Erkenntnis erlöst nur unter der Bedingung, dass sie all das in Anspruch nimmt, was wir sind: wenn sie ein Weg ist, der unsere Natur bearbeitet und umwandelt und verwundet, wie der Pflug die Erde verwundet.« Metaphysische Erkenntnis und geistige Verwandlung des Menschen sind die Hauptthemen...

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. Keith Critchlow writes, “This beautiful book … has the broadest coverage of any of the books on...

During the last three years of his life Frithjof Schuon wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express every conceivable subtlety of spiritual and moral counsel, and the same sharpness of intellect, profundity, comprehensiveness, and compassion which one finds in Schuon’s other writings. 

During the last three years of his life Frithjof Schuon wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express every conceivable subtlety of spiritual and moral counsel, and the same sharpness of intellect, profundity, comprehensiveness, and compassion which one finds in Schuon’s other writings. 

During the last three years of his life Frithjof Schuon wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express every conceivable subtlety of spiritual and moral counsel, and the same sharpness of intellect, profundity, comprehensiveness, and compassion which one finds in Schuon’s other writings. 

During the last three years of his life Frithjof Schuon wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express every conceivable subtlety of spiritual and moral counsel, and the same sharpness of intellect, profundity, comprehensiveness, and compassion which one finds in Schuon’s other writings. 

Jean-Baptiste Aymard, nella sua biografia di Frithjof Schuon, scrive che in questo libro "Schuon riafferma, oltre al suo approccio universalistico, l’importanza della via di conoscenza, della vera gnosi, ‘tramite tra i diversi linguaggi religiosi’, e ricorda che l’intellezione diretta...

»Als Mutter aller Propheten und als Quellgrund aller heiligen Formen hat die Heilige Jungfrau ihren Ehrenplatz im Islam, auch wenn sie a priori zum Christentum gehört; deshalb bildet sie eine Art Bindeglied zwischen diesen beiden Religionen, denen gemeinsam ist, dass sie dem Monotheismus Israels...

Pierre-Marie Sigaud nella presentazione di questo libro, pubblicato originariamente in francese nella Collezione Delphica da lui diretta, scrive: “In conformità alle sue opere precedenti Frithjof Schuon, che sappiamo essere con René Guénon e Titus Burckhardt il più eminente rappresentante del...