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The Transcendent Unity of Religions (Quest Book)

6 reviews
Frithjof Schuon

Quest Books, 1984

peace through understanding
This book clearly demonstrates the unity of all religions, although being different in their forms, from a metaphysical point of view.As such it helps to understand all religions, and their extrinsic orthodoxy, putting an end to the quarrels among some exponents of these religions, who feel to prove the validity of their religion, they must disprove the other religions.

The Eye of the Heart: Metaphysics, Cosmology, Spiritual Life (Library of Traditional Wisdom)

3 reviews
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 1997

Awesome reveal-ations from the premier perrenialist
Schuon is often a wonderfully complex author, and much is translated from French or German. If you have the patience, his work will never fail to amaze you with the new light refracted from a jewel you had convinced yourself you'd seen from all conceivable angles. He deals in foundations, and any modernist or self-proclaimed secular skeptic or atheist must grapple with his presentations of ...

The Transfiguration of Man

1 review
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 1995

Deeply Thought-Provoking
What does it mean for a person to be "transfiguredý? Schuon answers this question by a series of essays that describe human nature in all its dimensions, both ýverticalý and ýhorizontal.ý For most of us, it is the horizontal dimension that is realest: the thoughts, tendencies and feelings of our experiential ego and the images of the world around us. Almost every aspect of life today ...

Light on the Ancient Worlds: A New Translation with Selected Letters (The Library of Perennial Philosophy)

2 reviews
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 2006

We are falling away from the divine Center.
Better than any other, this book makes the case that mankind is not evolving into anything higher, but is rather consistently degenerating into something lower. Progress is an illusion. Through a series of falls Western civilization has succeeded in moving farther and farther from the Absolute. Seeing that humankind's one great purpose is to Know the Absolute, then one must conclude that we are ...

Art from the Sacred to the Profane: East and West (Writings of Frithjof Schuon)

1 review
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 2007

A blending of religious images and words from around the world
Catherine Schuon edits FRITHJOF SCHUON: ART FROM THE SACRED TO THE PROFANE EAST AND WEST, a blending of religious images and words from around the world which comes from a teacher with forty years teaching art and architecture. Nearly three hundred color and black and white illustrations are designed to pair with the text, providing both written and visual illumination and accompanying ...

Survey of Metaphysics and Esoterism

5 reviews
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 2003

Principia Metaphysica
This is not an easy book to read, but on the other hand, it was not really written for the general reader. As the author points out, the majority of people are not metaphysicians or pneumatics. In fact, if you do not accept the basic epistemological premise that there are archetypical truths that are intuitively accessible to the Gnostic, then most of the book will make no sense to you. You must ...

Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts: A New Translation with Selected Letters (Writings of Frithjof Schuon)

1 review
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 2007

A survey of spiritual virtues and human civilization.
This new translation of the classic Spiritual Perspectives & Human Facts with selected letters added in makes for a fine blending of editorial insights, biographical background, and a fully revised translation of the French edition of the author's notable scholarly work. While not for light reading, it makes an essential addition to any spirituality, new age, or metaphysical studies library ...

Christianity/Islam: Perspectives on Esoteric Ecumenism, A New Translation with Selected Letters

1 review
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 2008

A blend of philosophy and spirituality
CHRISTIANITY ISLAM: PERSPECTIVES ON ESOTERIC ECUMENISM offers a new translation with selected letters fully revising the original French and offering both an appendix of selections from letters and other previously unpublished writings. The result is a blend of philosophy and spirituality recommended especially for any New Age or spirituality library strong in analysis of religious traditions. ...

In the Face of the Absolute (Library of Traditional Wisdom)

1 review
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 1994

A philosophical masterpiece
Schuon has a fascinating ability to look at how things are spiritually relevant to us here and now. It may be a philosophical idea, or a denominational world, or a work of art--his aim is to turn it to account in a way that brings us into contact with the rays of divine Reality that transpierce the husks of everyday life. This book contains one of the seminal articles of the entire Schuon ...

Gnosis: Divine Wisdom, A New Translation with Selected Letters (Library of Perennial Philosophy)

1 review
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 2006

Remembrance of God- the Supernatural Instinct of Mankind
The first of this volume's three main parts, Controversies, deals primarily with the central theme that different revelations are provided for different cultures. There is no single "universal" revelation for all men through all of time. The different spiritual temperaments of individual men (represented by jnana and bhakti) are also examined. I especially liked his analogy that bhakti without ...

Understanding Islam

7 reviews
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 1998

Excellent Introduction to the Essence of Islam
Jay Kinney, in "Whole Earth Review," wrote of this work: "Frithjof Schuon's Understanding Islam...delves into the depths of Islam... Schuon does not hesitate to draw parallels between Islam and other faiths, particularly Hinduism. He also takes the reader into the esoteric (or inner) essence of Islam, where traditions and laws are given unexpected twists. If you have ever had any doubts about ...

Christianity/Islam: Essays on Esoteric Ecumenicism (The Library of Traditional Wisdom)

2 reviews
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom Books, 1985

A highly recommended and authoritative work
Schuon's approach to both Christianity and Islam takes the reader to new and unexpected levels of understanding, where their outward differences are seen not as irreconcilable alternatives but as necessarily different crystallizations of a unique sacred Reality which itself is above all forms. Schuon writes with a certitude--and without the usual scholarly references--that readers often find ...

Sufism: Veil and Quintessence A New Translation with Selected Letters (The Writings of Frithjof Schuon)

2 reviews
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 2007

Sufism: Veil and Quintessence
"There is a "contingent" Islam just as there is an "absolute" Islam. In order to separate the second from certain debatable elements pertaining only to the human clothing of the Message and not to the Message in itself, we are obliged also to give an account of the first, especially since esoterism is at stake, but it is obviously "absolute" Islam that matters to us..." This ambitious and ...

Form and Substance in the Religions (The Writings of Frithjof Schuon)

1 review
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 2002

Different Forms, One Substance
"The Substance of knowledge is knowledge of the Substance." So writes Frithjof Schuon at the start of the third chapter of his book Form and Substance of the Religions, and in fact Schuon proves himself to possess this "knowledge of the Substance" throughout the pages of this book. Originally published in French in 1975, all the chapters of this book have appeared in English in six of Schuon's ...

Roots of the Human Condition (The Writings of Frihjof Schuon)

1 review
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 2002

A Review of Roots of the Human Condition
Roots of the Human Condition As its title indicates, this book deals with the fundamental principles of universal and perennial metaphysics and their application on the level of spiritual and moral life. The book is divided into three sections: the first dealing with metaphysics and epistemology, the second concerning esoterism and its interpretation of religions, while the third focuses on ...

Language of the Self

1 review
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 1999

Schuon describes the operative "sap" of Hindu spirituality
Schuon often expressed a deep appreciation for Advaita-Vedanta and characterized his perspective as that of the Sanatana Dharma, the "eternal religion." The articles here all have a connection with Hinduism, but they are not concerned with the historical unfolding of this universe. What interests Schuon is the operative "sap" of Hindu spirituality. The chapters on the Vedanta and on yoga are ...

The Feathered Sun

1 review
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 1990

Schuon depicts the archetype of Plains Indian spirituality
If you have ever had the feeling that Native Americans are the heirs to a wisdom tradition of which today's world stands sorely in need, this book will confirm your insight and deepen it. This beautifully produced volume focuses on the spirituality of the nomadic Plains Indians, whose traditional way of life is seeing the divine in nature. Schuon explains why this is neither a romantic, ...

The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity (Writings of Frithjof Schuon)
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 2004

For the first time, this book collects from Schoun's vast corpus his writings on Christianity, including selections from his personal correspondence and other previously unpunblished materials.

Treasures of Buddhism

2 reviews
Frithjof Schuon

World Wisdom, 1993

An antidote against "neo"-buddhism
Edited by Marco Pallis, a well known scholar on Buddhism, these articles by Frithjof Schuon provide us with an original perspective on a tradition too often mixed in the West with New Age ideas and neo-spiritualism. By contrast with such modernist view, Schuon insists on the metaphysical and intrinsic orthodoxy of Buddhism, explaining its difference of perspective with Advaita Vedanta and other ...

Rene Guenon: Some Observations
Frithjof Schuon

Sophia Perennis, 2004

René Guénon (1886-1951) was the founder of the Traditionalist School. Along with Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and Frithjof Schuon, he reintroduced traditional metaphysics and esoterism into the Western world after a lapse of centuries, and was perhaps the first to present the doctrines of the Vedanta, Taoism, and Sufism not as Eurocentric orientalists or occult fantasts had done, but strictly in their own terms. To the 'mathematical' precision of ...

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