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The image of humanity presented by modern psychology is not only fragmentary but misleading. In reality, to be human means to be as if suspended between animality and divinity, but modern thought – whether philosophical or scientific – admits only of animality, practically speaking. Traditional wisdom corrects and perfects the image of man by insisting on his divinity, not by making a god of him but rather by taking account of his true nature, which surpasses the terrestrial and without which there would be no reason for his existence. It is this that can be called – symbolically speaking – the transfiguration of man.
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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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- Schuon’s genius lies in recalling the essential nature of things and thus the basic facts that define our existence and the elements of our happiness. The excesses to which human nature falls prey are masterfully and rigorously outlined, while never losing sight of the fact that man bears within his very substance saving truth, prayer and virtue. Above all, there is here the sense of the Absolute, the vertical dimension that gives meaning to life and without which there can be neither the grandeur, the mystery nor the love by which the soul lives.
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