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Frithjof Schuon

and the

Perennial Philosophy

by Harry Oldmeadow

Foreword by William Stoddart

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About This Book

“Oldmeadow’s comprehensive and insightful presentation of the life and work

of Frithjof Schuon and his function within the perennialist movement takes full

advantage of the most recently translated documents. It is a faithful compilation

of facts and ideas whose main merit is to show the importance of Schuon’s role

for our times. . . . This book will be valuable for anyone in search of a thorough

introduction to the sophia perennis .”

— Jean-Pierre Lafouge , Marquette University, editor of For God’s

Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality

“This book is much more than an excellent introduction to the life and work

of Frithjof Schuon and the perennial wisdom that he taught. It is an insightful

and urgent call to apply to our lives those timeless principles and values that

are vitally relevant to the host of issues that confront us in the modern world.”

— M. Ali Lakhani , editor of Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and

Modernity

“One can think of very few contemporary scholars who can match Oldmeadow’s

knowledge of the literary corpus of Frithjof Schuon, and of its seminal role

within the perennial philosophy. This work . . . points to the ways in which

Schuon’s exposition of the perennial philosophy can resolve many of the most

hotly debated issues within philosophy and religion today.”

— Reza Shah-Kazemi , author of Paths to Transcendence: According to

Shankara, Ibn Arabi, and Meister Eckhart

“The great value of Professor Oldmeadow’s book is its systematic and compre-

hensive treatment of Schuon’s thought. In this it is almost unique. It demands

serious scholarly recognition and engagement with Schuon’s thought, while at

the same time providing a valuable introduction to his oeuvre. This is a highly

commendable and timely work.”

— Timothy Scott , La Trobe University, co-editor of Vincit Omnia Veritas:

Collected Essays

“This is as important a book in the field of the philosophia perennis as I have

encountered. Oldmeadow has given us a mountain ledge view of the realm

of Traditionalism and Perennialism as expounded by its greatest sage, Frithjof

Schuon, and he has done so with impeccable scholarship as well as with a stun-

ning breadth of insight that is as spiritually rich as it is intellectually rigorous. . . .

Rarely has Schuon’s pneumatic genius been better understood and better served.

This is an eloquent gem of a book engaging our profoundest faculties.”

— Mark Perry , author of On Awakening and Remembering: To Know Is

to Be

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About Frithjof Schuon

“In reading Schuon I have the impression that I am perhaps 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.”

— Thomas Merton , from correspondence to Marco Pallis in The Hidden

Ground of Love

“[Schuon] is, without doubt, one of the most penetrating philosophical minds of

the twentieth century, if not well beyond.”

— Keith Critchlow , Professor Emeritus, The Prince’s School of Tradi-

tional Arts, and President of the Temenos Academy

“Schuon is unsurpassed—and I would add unequalled—as a writer on compara-

tive 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 is] the greatest metaphysical and religious thinker of our century. . . .

Intellectually à propos religion, equally in depth and breadth, the paragon of our

time. I know of no living thinker who begins to rival him.”

— Huston Smith , University of California, Berkeley, author of The

World’s Religions

“In Schuon’s writings we find the serenity of the vision of ‘that which eternally

exists, really and unchangeably’. . . . His work is full of calm and profound illu-

mination.”

— Kathleen Raine , co-founder of the Temenos Academy, author of

Defending Ancient Springs

“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 , The George Washington University, author

of Knowledge and the Sacred

“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

“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

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World Wisdom

The Library of Perennial Philosophy

The Library of Perennial Philosophy is dedicated to the exposition of the timeless

Truth underlying the diverse religions. This Truth, often referred to as the Sophia

Perennis —or Perennial Wisdom—finds its expression in the revealed Scriptures as

well as the writings of the great sages and the artistic creations of the traditional

worlds.

Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy appears as one of our selections in

the Perennial Philosophy series.

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The Perennial Philosophy Series

In the beginning of the twentieth century, a school of thought arose which

has focused on the enunciation and explanation of the Perennial Philosophy.

Deeply rooted in the sense of the sacred, the writings of its leading exponents

establish an indispensable foundation for understanding the timeless Truth and

spiritual practices which live in the heart of all religions. Some of these titles

are companion volumes to the Treasures of the World’s Religions series, which

allows a comparison of the writings of the great sages of the past with the

perennialist authors of our time.

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Frithjof Schuon, 1965

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