From the Divine to the Human: A New Translation with Selected Letters

by Frithjof Schuon, Patrick Laude (Editor)

Overview

In this book, which has been called a synthesis of his whole message, Frithjof Schuon invites us to explore aspects of humankind’s relationship with the Divine, including our sense of the sacred, the conditions of our existence, the symbolism of the human body, and the question of accepting or refusing God’s message. In doing so, Schuon paves the way for a true spiritual engagement. This revised edition has been fully retranslated and contains valuable editor’s notes and a glossary, plus a fascinating appendix of previously unpublished writings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936597321
Publisher:	World Wisdom
Publication date:	12/07/2013
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Frithjof Schuon is best known as the foremost spokesman of the Perennial Philosophy and as a philosopher in the metaphysical current of Shankara and Plato. Schuon was born in 1907 in Basle, Switzerland, of German parents and died in the United States in 1998. Patrick Laude is a professor at Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He lives in Qatar.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface vii

Foreword xi

Part 1 Subjectivity and Knowledge

Consequences Resulting from the Mystery of Subjectivity 3

Aspects of the Theophanic Phenomenon of Consciousness 11

Transcendence Is Not Contrary to Sense 17

Part 2 Divine and Universal Order

The Interplay of the Hypostases 31

The Problem of Possibility 39

Structure and Universality of the Conditions of Existence 51

Part 3 Human World

Outline of a Spiritual Anthropology 65

The Message of the Human Body 75

The Sense of the Sacred 87

To Refuse or To Accept Revelation 99

Appendix

Selections from Letters and Other Previously Unpublished Writings 133

The Mystery of Numbers 145

Editor's Notes 151

Glossary of Foreign Terms and Phrases 177

Index 185

Biographical Notes 193

Editorial Reviews

This luminous survey. .. cannot but dissipate the difficulties and troubles that modern mankind often encounters when confronted with the necessary, but sometimes disappointing, exclusivism of revealed religions and the ‘human margin’ that at times obscures them.

Patrick Laude

[Schuon is] the most important religious thinker of our century.

Huston Smith

"This synthesis of the whole metaphysical message of Schuon, summarizes in three sections his teachings concerning epistemology, metaphysics, and the science of man.. .. The second section present[s] the most succinct and complete study he has ever made on the nature of the Divine Principle."

Seyyed Hossein Nasr