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This new edition of The Eye of the Heart, one of Perennialist author Frithjof Schuon’s earliest works, features a fully revised translation from the French original as well as over 50 pages of new material, including previously unpublished selections from the author’s letters and other private writings. Also featured is a Foreword by renowned religion scholar Huston Smith, an editor’s preface, extensive editor’s notes, a glossary of foreign terms and phrases, an index, and biographical notes
Schuon’s perspective is that of the sophia perennis or “perennial wisdom”, which is capable of discerning the spiritual intentions behind religious doctrines, forms, and practices. The essays collected here cover a wide range of subjects, including the fundamental principles of spiritual symbolism, the enigmatic nature of evil, questions on the afterlife, and many invaluable insights concerning the integration of everyday activities into the spiritual life. Schuon also evokes the sacredness of creation and the message of beauty, which when seen with the “eye of the heart” leads back to God.
Awards
- Winner in the “Spirituality” category of the 2022 NYC Big Book Awards
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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Harry Oldmeadow
Harry Oldmeadow was coordinator of Philosophy and Religious Studies at La Trobe University in Australia and author of the acclaimed Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy (2000), an authoritative introduction to the perspective of Perennialism. Prof. Oldmeadow's contributions to World Wisdom books & DVDs include:
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Huston Smith
Huston Smith is one of the most prominent voices in the contemporary study of religion and spirituality. His book, The World's Religions, is used in countless classes, and Prof. Smith's other books are widely respected in the field. Much of his work over the years deals with the tenets of the Perennial Philosophy. Huston Smith's contributions to World Wisdom's books and DVDs include:
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Reviews
- I consider [Schuon] to be the most important religious thinker of our century.
Huston Smith, Syracuse University, author of The World’s Religions and Beyond the Post-Modern Mind
- The Eye of the Heart is one of the author’s earliest books; the metaphysical wisdom which he so clearly articulates in this work remained the touchstone of his whole corpus.
Harry Oldmeadow, author of Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy
- [In The Eye of the Heart] Schuon has elucidated some of the most complex metaphysical and cosmological questions as well as elements of the practical aspect of the realization of knowledge.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, George Washington University, editor of The Essential Frithjof Schuon
