Martin Lings: Frithjof Schuon and René Guénon

The following is the text of a talk given at the Temenos Academy on July 14, 1999 to an audience by no means altogether familiar with the writings of these two men.  In the title of this talk the name Schuon is put before that of Guénon because it will be mainly about Schuon, as a sequel to the talk I gave two years ago on Guénon alone.[1] But in principle their message is one and the same. The main theme of both is esoterism, that is, the inner aspect of religion summed up by Christ in his affirmation that "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you" and also "Seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you."  Inevitably...

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Martin Lings: René Guénon

The following is a transcript of a lecture given in the autumn of 1994 at the Prince of Wales Institute in London and sponsored by the Temenos Academy.  As regards the early part of the life of René Guénon our knowledge is very limited because of his extreme reticence. His objectivity, which is one aspect of his greatness, made him realize the evils of subjectivism and individualism in the modern world, and impelled him perhaps too far in the opposite direction; he shrank at any rate from speaking about himself. Since his death book after book has been written about him and the authors have no doubt felt often extremely frustrated at...

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Schuon: Zwei Gedichten - Two Poems

The following poems are extracts from Adastra & Stella Maris, Poems by Frithjof Schuon (German-English edition), World Wisdom, 2003. Four other volumes have also been published by the same publisher more recently: Songs without Names Volumes I-VI , Songs without Names Volumes VII-XII ,World Wheel Volumes I-III and World Wheel Volumes IV-VII. Zum Eingang Es floss aus meinem Herzen mancher Sang;Ich sucht ihn nicht, er ward mir eingegeben.O mög der gottgeschenkten Harfe KlangDie Seele läutern, uns zum Himmel heben — Möge das Licht der Wahrheit sich verbindenMit Liebe, unsrem Streben zum Geleit;Und mögen unsre Seelen Gnade finden — Den Weg...

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Christophe Levalois: Hyperborea – A Fény, Észak és az Eredet földje

"…kik az északi parton túl laknak,legidősebb népek a földilakók közt…"(Kallimachos[1]) Hyperborea egy édeni korszaknak, az Aranykornak felel meg. A jelenkori vélemények elburjánzó egocentrizmusának köszönhetően e témában a legfőbb tévedés az, hogy ezt a kort a jelen alapján képzelik el. Pedig ez semmiféleképpen nem a lustaságnak, a dolce farnientének, a szórakozásoknak, a hedonizmusnak, a könnyelműségnek, az individualizmusnak és a tömegek diadalának, a mindenféle szabados szeszélynek, a folyton teli gyomornak, a teljes komfortnak a kora. Nincs semmi közös az élet e tipikusan modern és involutív szemlélete, s az igazi Aranykor között. Természetesen...

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