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The poetry of Frithjof Schuon has been called metaphysical music. Every poem in this collection – drawn from more than three thousand poems written during the closing years of his life – is a true compass pointing the reader time and again to Schuon’s fundamental theme: the Remembrance of God. These small gems are as profound as the sea and as simple as water itself. Schuon repeatedly traces the journey of a soul which has found its celestial homeland and views the play of this world from the perspective of Eternity. Like the stars, these poems strike the reader as both old and new. They echo the primordial melodies of Being and communicate a message of certitude and serenity for every person who longs for spiritual light.
Schuon’s poetry, which possesses both formal integrity and mystical abandon, is the flowering of a soul deeply in love with the Reality of God. His poems are born not from mental effort but from a deep interior vision, and he sings of seeing God everywhere in the simple, radiant language of one who stands alone before the Creator. The spiritual traveler may carry this book for a lifetime and not exhaust its content because its content is the inexhaustibly beautiful life of the Spirit.
Nor in the encounter with the Lord.
The moment of prayer is eternity –
It stands in the sky like the morning star;
In the now of the heart lies thy whole life.
About the Author(s)
Frithjof Schuon
Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) is best known as the foremost spokesman of the “Traditionalist” or “Perennialist” school and as a philosopher in the metaphysical current of Shankara and Plato. He wrote more than two dozen books on metaphysical, spiritual, artistic, and ethnic themes and was a regular contributor to journals on comparative religion in both Europe and America. Schuon’s writings have been consistently featured and reviewed in a wide range of scholarly and philosophical publications around the world, respected by both scholars and spiritual authorities. Besides his prose writings, Schuon was also a prolific poet and a gifted painter of images that always portrayed the beauty and power of the divine, and the nobility and virtue of primordial humanity.
World Wisdom features a series titled “The Writings of Frithjof Schuon”, which includes many new editions of classic books by Schuon in new translations and with additional materials. Our online Library contains many articles and poems written by Frithjof Schuon, allowing readers to see a representative sample of his remarkable body of work.
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Reviews
- Mystical experience almost inevitably leads to poetry. The great mystics all over the world used the language of poetry when trying to beckon to a mystery that lies beyond the normal human expression, and the most glorious works in Eastern and Western religions are the hymns of the mystics, be they Sufis or Christians, Hindus or Zen monks… We are not surprised that Frithjof Schuon too felt comelled to write poetry… Here we listen to the thinker who, far from the complicated scholarly sentences of his learned prose works, sings prayers of the longing soul… These tenfer lyrics shows the famous thinker in a very different light and from an unexpected side.
Annemarie Schimmel, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
- The beauty of Schuon’s poetry touches upon that luminous center where the way of knowledge and the path of love converge.
Patrick Laude, Georgetown University
