e and the spiritual method.

Knowing the Truth and willing the Good, human

beings must finally love "Beauty" in their own soul through virtue, but also in
"Nature". In this respect Schuon has insisted on the importance for the
authentic spiritual seeker to be aware of what he called the "metaphysical
transparency of phenomena".[18]
Schuon wrote about different aspects of spiritual life both on the doctrinal and
on the practical levels. He explained the forms of the spiritual practices as
they have been manifested in various traditional universes. In particular, he
wrote on the Invocation of the Divine Name (dhikr, Japa-Yoga, the Prayer of
the Heart), considered by Hindus as the best and most providential means of
realization at the end of the Kali Yuga. As has been noted by the Hindu
saint Ramakrishna, the secret of the invocatory path is that God and his Name
are one.[19]
Schuon's views are in harmony with traditional Islamic teachings of the
primacy of "Remembrance of God" as emphasized by Shaykh Al-Alawi in the
following passage:
Remembrance (dhikr) is the most important rule of the religion.
The law was not imposed upon us nor the rites of worship
ordained except for the sake of establishing the remembrance of
God (dhikru ʾLlāh). The Prophet said: ‘The circumambulation
(ṭawāf) around the Holy House, the passage to and fro between
(the hills of) Safa and Marwa, and the throwing of the pebbles
(on three pillars symbolizing the devil) were ordained only for
the sake of the Remembrance of God.’ And God Himself has said
(in the Koran): ‘Remember God at the Holy Monument.’ Thus we
know that the rite that consists in stopping there was ordained
for remembrance and not specifically for the sake of the
monument itself, just as the halt at Muna was ordained for
remembrance and not because of the valley. Furthermore He
(God) has said on the subject of the ritual prayer: ‘Perform the
prayer in remembrance of Me.’ In a word, our performance of
the rites is considered ardent or lukewarm according to the
degree of our remembrance of God while performing them. Thus
when the Prophet was asked which spiritual strivers would
receive the greatest reward, he replied: ‘Those who have
remembered God most.’ And when asked which fasters would
receive the greatest reward, he replied: ‘Those who have
remembered God most.’ And when the prayer and the
almsgiving and the pilgrimage and the charitable donations
were mentioned, he said each time: ‘The richest in
remembrance of God is the richest in reward.’[20]
Quintessential esoterism[edit]
Guénon had pointed out at the beginning of the twentieth century that every
religion comprises two main aspects, "esoterism" and "exoterism". Schuon
explained that esoterism displays two aspects, one being an extension of
exoterism and the other one independent of exoterism; for if it be true that
the form "is" in a certain way the essence, the essence on the contrary is by
no means totally expressed by a single form; the drop is water, but water is
not the drop. This second aspect is called "quintessential esoterism" for it is
not limited or expressed totally by one single form or theological school and,
above all, by a particular religious form as such.[21]
Criticism of modernity[edit]
Guénon had based his Crisis of the Modern World on the Hindu doctrine of
cyclic nature of time.[22] Schuon expanded on this concept and its
consequences for humanity in many of his articles.[23] In his essay "The
Contradictions of Relativism", Schuon wrote that the uncompromising
relativism that underlies many modern philosophies had fallen into an intrinsic
absurdity in declaring that there is no absolute truth and then attempting to
put this forward as an absolute truth. Schuon notes that the essence of
relativism is found in the idea that we never escape from human subjectivity
whilst its expounders seem to remain unaware of the fact that relativism is
therefore also deprived of any objectivity. Schuon further notes that the
Freudian assertion that rationality is merely a hypocritical guise for a
repressed animal drive results in the very assertion itself being devoid of
worth as it is itself a rational judgment.[24][25]

Works[edit]
Books in English[edit]

 Adastra and Stella Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon, World Wisdom, 2003
 Autumn Leaves & The Ring: Poems by Frithjof Schuon, World Wisdom,
2010
 Castes and Races, Perennial Books, 1959, 1982
 Christianity/Islam, World Wisdom, 1985
o New translation, World Wisdom, 2008
 Dimensions of Islam, 1969

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