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Bemerkungen über Schuon

“[Schuon is] the most important religious thinker of our century.”
Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions

“I have met with no more impressive work in the comparative study of Oriental and Occidental religion.”
T. S. Eliot,on Schuon’s first book, The Transcendent Unity of Religions

“Schuon’s thought does not demand that we agree or disagree, but that we understand or do not understand. Such writing is of rare and lasting value.”
Times Literary Supplement

“In reading Schuon I have the impression that I am going along parallel to him, and once in a while I will get a glimpse of what he means in terms of my own tradition and experience.…I think that he has exactly the right view.… I appreciate him more and more.… I am grateful for the chance to be in contact with people like him.”
Thomas Merton, from a letter to Marco Pallis

“Schuon is unsurpassed—and I would add unequalled—as a writer on comparative religion…. If I were asked who is the greatest writer of our time, I would say Frithjof Schuon without hesitation.”
Martin Lings, author of Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions

“Schuon seems like the cosmic intellect itself impregnated by the energy of divine grace surveying the whole of the reality surrounding man and elucidating all the concerns of human existence in the light of sacred knowledge.”
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, author of Knowledge and the Sacred

“[Schuon is in] possession of ‘the gift of tongues’, the ability, that is to say, both to speak and understand the various dialects through which the Spirit has chosen to communicate itself to men in their diversity and therefore, in practice, also the ability to communicate clearly with one’s fellows across the religious frontiers…. [He] exemplifies the power to penetrate all traditional forms as well as to render them mutually intelligible.”
Marco Pallis, author of Peaks and Lamas

“[Schuon is] widely acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s greatest authorities on the world’s religions, and the leading spokesman for the traditionalist or perennialist school of comparative religious philosophy. 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was the author of over twenty books, as well as numerous articles, letters, texts of spiritual instruction, and other unpublished documents … and by the time of his death in 1998 at the age of ninety, his reputation among many scholars of mysticism, esoterism, and contemplative traditions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 to the importance of faith and spiritual practice.”
James Cutsinger, author of Advice to the Serious Seeker: Meditations on the Teaching of Frithjof Schuon

“Frithjof Schuon is well known as one of the greatest metaphysicians of the twentieth century and as Traditionalism’s wisest and most profound exponent.”
Christopher Bamford,author of The Voice of the Eagle: The Heart of Celtic Christianity

“Schuon … by his universality eludes easy classification, but the concept to which he best answers is that of the Sophia Perennis or Religio Perennis; and the combination of wisdom with spirituality in his message certainly highlights the appropriateness of both terms, which can be synthesized in the idea of Theosophy or Gnosis, provided these words are understood in their original, etymological sense, without reference to any sect, society, or movement.”
Whitall N. Perry, author of A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom

“For Schuon, philosophy was a wisdom born of certainty, not a skepticism born of doubt. It was not a ‘search’ for answers to badly-put questions, but an exposition of eternal Truth—that ‘wisdom uncreate’ (as St. Augustine called it) which is commonly known as the philosophia perennis.”
William Stoddart, author of Remembering in a World of Forgetting: Thoughts on Tradition and Postmodernism

“Frithjof Schuon [was] a metaphysician and a spiritual teacher whose … perspective … derived from gnosis, i.e. a spiritual and supra-rational ‘heart-knowledge’ that finds its most direct expression in the primordial and universal wisdom referred to as sophia perennis.”
Patrick Laude, co-author of Frithjof Schuon: Life and Teachings

“In Schuon’s writings we find the serenity of the vision of ‘that which eternally exists, really and unchangeably,’ outside the temporal which can destroy only itself. His work is full of calm and profound illumination.”
Kathleen Raine,author of Defending Ancient Springs

“Schuon’s work has a symmetry and an inclusive quality…; there is a balance and fullness which give his writings something of the quality of a spiritual therapy. 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.”
Harry Oldmeadow, author of Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy

“The highest praise that I can offer concerning the writings of Frithjof Schuon is that they are worthy of their subject matter—the teachings of the great spiritual traditions. Whether one’s views are supported or challenged by these writings, any serious person will feel grateful to be confronted by such a generously discerning intellect and to witness the emergence of authentic contemplative thought in this darkening time.”
Jacob Needleman, editor of The Sword of Gnosis

“His work has the intrinsic authority of a contemplative intelligence.”
Bernard Kelly, English Thomist

“[Schuon] is, without doubt, one of the most penetrating philosophical minds of the twentieth century, if not well beyond.”
Keith Critchlow, author of Islamic Patterns: An Analytical and Cosmological Approach

“Intellectually rigorous in the highest degree…. There is no other voice like that of Schuon.”
Arthur Versluis, author of Theosophia: Hidden Dimensions of Christianity

“Frithjof Schuon’s written opus is the very expression of his powerful didactic genius. 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. However, Schuon is not a bookish metaphysician, like so many others, but he is first of all an inspired man of prayer, a true sage, and … a ‘born gnostic’ who tends to fully ‘incarnate his archetype’ by actualizing all his inner riches.”
Jean-Baptiste Aymard, co-author of Frithjof Schuon: Life and Teachings

“Anyone … who is an artist concerned with the sacred should read him…. I am eternally grateful to him.”
Sir John Tavener, musician and composer


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Eine Liste anderer Artikel des Interesses

  • Seyyed Hossein Nasr and William Stoddart (eds.), Religion of the Heart: Essays Presented to Frithjof Schuon on His Eightieth Birthday. Washington: Foundation for Traditional Studies, 1991.
  • James S. Cutsinger, Advice to the Serious Seeker: Meditations on the Teaching of Frithjof Schuon. New York: SUNY Press, 1997.
  • Kenneth Oldmeadow, Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Institute of Traditional Studies, 2000.
  • Patrick Laude and Jean-Baptiste Aymard, Frithjof Schuon: Life and Teachings. New York: SUNY Press, 2004.
  • V. Raghavan, “Foreword”, in Frithjof Schuon, Language of the Self. Madras: Ganesh, 1959.
  • Huston Smith, “Introduction”, in Frithjof Schuon, The Transcendent Unity of Religions. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
  • Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “The Rediscovery of the Sacred: The Revival of Tradition”, in Knowledge and the Sacred (the 1981 Gifford Lectures). New York: Crossroad, 1981.
  • Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “Introduction”, in The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon, edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. New York: Amity House, 1986; second edition (The Essential Frithjof Schuon), Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2005.
  • Barbara Perry, “Foreword: Frithjof Schuon: Metaphysician and Artist”, in The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom Books, 1990.
  • Thomas Yellowtail, “Introduction”, in The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom Books, 1990.
  • Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “Biography of Frithjof Schuon”, in Religion of the Heart: Essays Presented to Frithjof Schuon on His Eightieth Birthday, edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and William Stoddart. Washington: Foundation for Traditional Studies, 1991.
  • Bernard Kelly, “Notes on the Light of the Eastern Traditions, with Special Reference to the Writings of Ananda Coomaraswamy, René Guénon, and Frithjof Schuon”, in Religion of the Heart: Essays Presented to Frithjof Schuon on His Eightieth Birthday, edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and William Stoddart. Washington: Foundation for Traditional Studies, 1991.
  • Whitall. N. Perry, “The Revival of Interest in Tradition”, in The Unanimous Tradition, edited by Ranjit Fernando. Colombo: Sri Lanka Institute of Traditional Studies, 1991 and The Underlying Religion: An Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy, edited by Martin Lings and Clinton Minnaar. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2007.
  • Jean Borella, “René Guénon and the Traditionalist School”, in Modern Esoteric Spirituality, edited by Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman. New York: Crossroad, 1992.
  • James S. Cutsinger, “A Knowledge That Wounds Our Nature: The Message of Frithjof Schuon”, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 60, No. 3, 1992.
  • Michael Pollack, “Editor’s Introduction”, in Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty: Paintings by Frithjof Schuon. Bloomington, IN: Abodes, 1992.
  • Sharlyn Romaine, “Intention and Style”, in Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty: Paintings by Frithjof Schuon. Bloomington, IN: Abodes, 1992.
  • Deborah Casey, “The Basis of Religion and Metaphysics: An Interview with Frithjof Schuon”, The Quest: Philosophy, Science, Religion, the Arts, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1996.
  • Huston Smith, “Foreword”, in The Eye of the Heart: Metaphysics, Cosmology, Spiritual Life. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom Books, 1997.
  • Annemarie Schimmell, “Foreword”, in Understanding Islam. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom Books, 1998.
  • Jean Biès, “A Face of Eternal Wisdom: An Interview with Frithjof Schuon”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1998.
  • Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998)”, Sacred Web, Vol. 1, 1998.
  • William Stoddart, “The German Poems of Frithjof Schuon”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1998.
  • Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “In Memoriam: Frithjof Schuon—A Prelude”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998.
  • Martin Lings, “Frithjof Schuon: An Autobiographical Approach”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998.
  • Huston Smith, “Providence Perceived: In Memory of Frithjof Schuon”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998.
  • Whitall N. Perry, “Perspectives”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998.
  • Mudambai Ramachandran, “Frithjof Schuon: A Small Word of Homage and Celebration”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998.
  • James S. Cutsinger, “The Mystery of the Two Natures”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998 and Every Branch in Me: Essays on the Meaning of Man, edited by Barry McDonald, 2002.
  • Harry (Kenneth) Oldmeadow, “A Sage for the Times: The Role and the Ouevre of Frithjof Schuon”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998.
  • Reza Shah-Kazemi, “Frithjof Schuon and Prayer”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998 and The Underlying Religion: An Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy, edited by Martin Lings and Clinton Minnaar. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2007.
  • Tage Lindbom, “Frithjof Schuon and Our Times”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998.
  • Mateus Soares de Azevedo, “Frithjof Schuon and Sophia Perennis in Brazil”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998.
  • A.K. Saran, “A Schuon Sentence: Some Remarks”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998.
  • Michael Oren Fitzgerald, “Frithjof Schuon’s Role in Preserving the Red Indian Spirit”, Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998.
  • Brian Keeble, “Some Thoughts on Reading Frithjof Schuon’s Writings on Art”,  Sophia, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998.
  • Patrick Laude, “Remarks on Esoterism in the Works of Frithjof Schuon”, Sacred Web, Vol. 4, 1999.
  • Martin Lings, “Frithjof Schuon and René Guénon”, Sophia, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1999.
  • Bruce K. Hanson, “Foreword”, in Survey of Metaphysics and Esoterism. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom Books, 2000.
  • Kenneth Oldmeadow, “Formal Diversity, Essential Unity: Frithjof Schuon on the Convergence of Religions”, Sacred Web, Vol. 5, 2000.
  • William Stoddart, “Lossky’s Palamitism in the Light of Schuon”, Sacred Web, Vol. 6, 2001.
  • Kenneth Oldmeadow, “‘Signposts to the Supra-sensible’: Notes on Frithjof Schuon’s Understanding of ‘Nature’”, Sacred Web, Vol. 6, 2001.
  • Mark Perry, “Frithjof Schuon Seen Through His Handwriting”, Sophia, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2000.
  • Catherine Schuon, “Frithjof Schuon: Memories and Anecdotes”, Sacred Web, Vol. 8, 2001.
  • Michael Oren Fitzgerald, “Frithjof Schuon: Providence without Paradox”, Sacred Web, Vol. 8, 2001.
  • Harry (Kenneth) Oldmeadow, “Melodies from the Beyond: Australian Aboriginal Religion in Schuonian Perspective”, originally appeared as “Melodies de l’au-dela: Perspective schuonienne sur la religion des aborigènes d’Australie”, Connaissance des Religions, 2002.
  • James S. Cutsinger, “Colorless Light and Pure Air: The Virgin in the Thought of Frithjof Schuon”, Sophia, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2002 and Ye Shall Know the Truth: Christianity and the Perennial Philosophy, edited by Mateus Sores de Azevedo, 2005.
  • Mateus Sores de Azevedo, “Frithjof Schuon and Shri Ramana Maharshi”, Sacred Web, Vol. 10, 2002.
  • Patrick Laude, “Foreword”, in Roots of the Human Condition. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2002.
  • Ghazi Bin Muhammad, “The Qur’anic Doctrine of Remembrance: Commentary on an Epistle on Presence and Remembrance”, Sacred Web, Vol. 12, 2003.
  • Antoine Faivre, “Foreword”, in The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, edited by James S. Cutsinger. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2004.
  • James S. Cutsinger, “Introduction”, in The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, edited by James S. Cutsinger. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2004.
  • Annemarie Schimmell, “Foreword”, in Adastra & Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon (bilingual edition). Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2004.
  • William Stoddart, “Introduction”, in Adastra & Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon (bilingual edition). Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2004.
  • Harry (Kenneth) Oldmeadow, “The Heart of the Religio Perennis: Frithjof Schuon on Esotericism”, in Esotericism and the Control of Knowledge, edited by Edward Crangle. Sydney: Sydney University, 2004.
  • Timothy Scott, “The Elect and the Predestination of Knowledge: ‘Esoterism’ and ‘Exclusivism’: A Schuonian Perspective”, in, Esotericism and the Control of Knowledge, edited by Edward Crangle. Sydney: Sydney University, 2004.
  • Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “Preface”, in The Essential Frithjof Schuon, edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2005.
  • Harry Oldmeadow, “Traditionalism and the Sophia Perennis”, in Journeys East: 20th Century Western Encounters with Eastern Religious Traditions. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2005.
  • Philip Zaleski, “Foreword”, in Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life, edited by James S. Cutsinger. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom 2005.
  • James S. Cutsinger, “Introduction”, in Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life, edited by James S. Cutsinger. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2005.
  • Deon Valodia, “Glossary of Terms used by Frithjof Schuon”. Cape Town: privately published, 2006.
  • Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “Foreword”, in Sufism: Veil and Quintessence, A New Translation with Selected Letters. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2007.
  • Keith Critchlow, “Foreword”, in Frithjof Schuon, Art from the Sacred to the Profane: East and West, edited by Catherine Schuon. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2007.
  • Catherine Schuon, “Preface”, in Frithjof Schuon, Art from the Sacred to the Profane: East and West, edited by Catherine Schuon. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2007.
  • Barbara Perry, “Introduction”, in Frithjof Schuon, Art from the Sacred to the Profane: East and West, edited by Catherine Schuon. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2007.
  • Patrick Laude, “Nigra sum sed Formosa, ‘I am Black but Beautiful’: Death and the Spiritual Life in Frithjof Schuon”, Sacred Web, Vol. 19, 2007.
  • M. Ali Lakhani, “‘Standing Unshakably in the True’: A Commentary on the Teachings of Frithjof Schuon”, Sacred Web, Vol. 20, 2007.
  • Michael Oren Fitzgerald, “Beauty and the Sense of the Sacred: Schuon’s Antidote to the Modern World”, Sacred Web, Vol. 20, 2007.
  • Patrick Laude, “Quintessential Esoterism and the Wisdom of Forms: Reflections on Frithjof Schuon’s Intellectual and Spiritual Legacy”, Sacred Web, Vol. 20, 2007.
  • Timothy Scott, “‘Made in the Image’: Schuon’s Theomorphic Anthropology”, Sacred Web, Vol. 20, 2007.
  • Renaud Fabbri, “The Milk of the Virgin: The Prophet, the Saint, and the Sage”, Sacred Web, Vol. 20, 2007.
  • James S. Cutsinger, “Provocations in Place of Answers: Sollemnitas in Conceptione Immaculata Beatae Mariae Virginis” (Talk delivered in Zurich, 2007).
  • Renaud Fabbri, “Frithjof Schuon: The Shining Realm of the Pure Intellect” (Master’s Thesis). Oxford, Ohio: Miami University, 2007.
  • Michael Oren Fitzgerald, “Frithjof Schuon and the American Indian Spirit”, Vincit Omnia Veritas, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2007.
  • William Stoddart, “Frithjof Schuon and the Perennialist School”, in Remembering in a World of Forgetting: Thoughts on Tradition and Postmodernism, edited by Mateus Soares de Azevedo and Alberto Vasconcellos Queiroz. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2008.

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