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The Essential Frithjof Schuon Free FREE THE ESSENTIAL FRITHJOF SCHUON PDF Seyyed Hossein Nasr | 560 pages | 28 Feb 2006 | World Wisdom Books | 9780941532921 | English | Bloomington, IN, United States Frithjof Schuon - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview The Essential Frithjof Schuon a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Seyyed Hossein Nasr Editor. Frithjof Schuon had a unique ability to penetrate to the heart if the world's great The Essential Frithjof Schuon traditions, revealing new dimensions that astounded general readers and scholars alike. Schuon's insights on religion, prayer, the spiritual life, aesthetics and philosophy shine throughout this book. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. 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In his teachings, Schuon expresses his faith in an absolute principle, God, who governs the universe and to whom our souls would return after death. For Schuon the great revelations are The Essential Frithjof Schuon link between this absolute principle--God--and mankind. He wrote the main bulk of his metaphysical teachings in French. In the later years of his life Schuon composed some volumes of poetry in his The Essential Frithjof Schuon tongue, German. His The Essential Frithjof Schuon in French were collected in about twenty titles in French which were later translated into English as well as many other languages. Books by Frithjof Schuon. Escape the Present with These The Essential Frithjof Schuon Historical Romances. You know the saying: There's no time like the present The Essential Frithjof Schuon by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® Such writing is of rare and lasting value. If I were asked who is the greatest writer of our time, I would say Frithjof Schuon without hesitation. Schuon was the author of over twenty books, as well as numerous articles, letters, texts of spiritual instruction, and other unpublished documents … and by the time of his death in at the age of ninety, his reputation among many scholars of mysticism, esoterism, and contemplative traditions was unsurpassed. Frithjof Schuon was much more than a scholar, however. An accomplished artist and noted religious poet, he was above all a man of prayer, whose fundamental message, whatever its particular thrust in any given article or chapter, was always linked The Essential Frithjof Schuon the importance of faith and spiritual practice. Perryauthor of A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom. Augustine called it which is commonly known as the philosophia perennis. His work is full of The Essential Frithjof Schuon and profound illumination. In this sense Schuon does not simply write about the perennial philosophy but gives it a direct and fresh expression proportioned to the needs of the age. There is no other voice like that of Schuon. Through its objectivity and its rigor, it is an answer to the questions raised by contemporary man who finds himself disarmed in the face of the overwhelming certainties of modern science and the climate of nihilism that surrounds him. I am eternally grateful to him. Articles on Schuon's Work Glossary Bibliography. Interviews with Schuon Interviews with Others. An Online Archive about his writings Holdings: 45 Articles. This wide-ranging interview with Frithjof Schuon covers "the transcendent unity of religions," metaphysics, spiritual practice, virtue, sacred art, beauty, esoterism, the American Indian traditions, sacred nudity, and more. Although Smith gives only brief attention to the specific contents of the book, he does summarize his thoughts with this: "Again in this book, as everywhere in Schuon's writing, one is struck by the hierarchical, vertical character of his thinking — his depiction of an absolute and transcendent Reality that deploys itself through All-Possibility and ultimately returns to Itself through human beings 'made in the The Essential Frithjof Schuon of God. Emphasizing the Marian foundation of his teachings, the author argues that Schuon is best understood as being a paracletic spokesman of the sophia perennis and a shakta. Yellowtail details his The Essential Frithjof Schuon relationship with Schuon The Essential Frithjof Schuon goes on to point out that Schuon captured the spirit of the olden-days Indians in both his paintings and his prose. Prince Charles begins his comments with: "In these uprooted times, there is a great need for constancy; a need for those who can rise above the clamour, the din and the sheer pace of our lives to help us to rediscover those truths that The Essential Frithjof Schuon immutable and eternal; a need for those who can speak of that eternal wisdom which is called the perennial philosophy. According to Woodman, the book assumes a certain familiarity with Buddhism on the part of the reader, with the exception of the traditions of Jodo and Shinto which are gone into in detail and explained assuming a poorer understanding. Martin Lings reviews this book by Frithjof Schuon which is a complement to Understanding Islam and which explains in depth some of the problems that Christianity sees in Islam in the sanctity of The Essential Frithjof Schuon Prophet, for example, or the belittling of the human.
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