Splendor of the True [EPUB ebook] 
A Frithjof Schuon Reader

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998), the leading figure in the perennialist school of comparative religious thought, remains one of the most provocative voices on religion. Bridging the divide between seeker and scholar, Schuon challenges the prevailing notion that religion should be studied with agnostic neutrality. He speaks to those who are looking for greater interfaith understanding and a deeper penetration to the esoteric heart of specific traditions, while turning the tables on an increasingly noisy chorus of skeptics.



In
Splendor of the True, James S. Cutsinger selects essential writings that reflect the full range of Schuon’s thought on religion and tradition, metaphysics and epistemology, human nature and destiny, sacred art and symbolism, and spirituality and contemplative method. In addition to Schuon’s essays, the book includes a number of poems, artworks, and previously unpublished materials drawn from his letters, personal memoirs, and private texts for disciples. An introductory chapter provides a careful examination of Schuon as perennial philosopher, Sufi
shaykh, and teacher of
gnosis.

Cuprins

Illustrations

Poems

Foreword by Huston Smith

Introduction by James S. Cutsinger

Preface



Part I. Religion and Tradition



1. The Sense of the Absolute in Religions

2. Two Esotericisms

3. Concerning Naiveté

4. The Mystery of the Hypostatic Face



Part II. The Perennial Philosophy



5. Summary of Integral Metaphysics

6. Consequences Flowing from the Mystery of Subjectivity

7. Tracing the Notion of Philosophy

8. Understanding and Believing



Part III. Human Nature and Destiny



9. Man in the Universe

10. The Message of the Human Body

11. Man and Certainty

12. Universal Eschatology



Part IV. Sacred Art and Symbolism



13. The Question of Forms in Art

14. The Liberating Passage

15. An Elementary Criteriology of Celestial Apparitions

16. The Symbolism of the Hourglass



Part V. Spirituality



17. Modes of Spiritual Realization

18. The Anonymity of the Virtues

19. The Nature and Function of the Spiritual Master

20. The Stations of Wisdom



Conclusion:
Religio Perennis



Appendix: Selections from Letters, Spiritual Texts, and Memoirs

Translator’s Notes

Glossary

Sources

Bibliography of Works by Frithjof Schuon

Index

Despre autor

James S. Cutsinger is Professor of Theology and Religious Thought at the University of South Carolina. His many books include
Advice to the Serious Seeker: Meditations on the Teaching of Frithjof Schuon, also published by SUNY Press.