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Welcome to World Wisdom’s free full-text online library.
The online library features the best chapters and extracts from almost all of World Wisdom’s titles on Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, the Perennial Philosophy and American Indian Spirituality.
You can also find links to external articles and websites for interest.
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It is generally recognized that Frithjof Schuon had a special interest in the spiritual traditions of the American Indians, but only some aspects of his relationship with them are well known. The online journal Vincit Omnia Veritas, which published six issues between 2005 and 2007, interviewed Michael Fitzgerald on the subject of Schuon's many decades of interest in, and study of, American Indian spirituality in its many dimensions. This interview, posted on the Religio Perennis website, remains one of the most in-depth explications of Schuon's frequent focus on many aspects of American Indian traditions. Fitzgerald also gives some important historical context to the life and times of Schuon, to his American Indian contacts and friends, and to the work of Joseph Epes Brown, a scholar of Indian Studies and a friend to both Black Elk and Schuon.
| Frithjof Schuon and the American Indian Spirit: Interview with Michael Fitzgerald | “Vincit Omnia Veritas” journal web site at www.religioperennis.org | Fitzgerald, Michael | |
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The American Indian Culture and Research Journal summarizes this article by Fitzgerald in this way: “This article provides new information that will oblige scholars to reassess the legacy of Black Elk (1863–1950), including excerpts from recently discovered unpublished letters written by Joseph Epes Brown while he was living with the Lakota holy man (1947–49). The author provides insights into Brown's personal philosophy and a clearer context for the editorial role he played in recording The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux. Brown's letters also help to illuminate Black Elk's role in attempting to restore the sacred “religion of the Pipe” among the Sioux and to clarify controversies that include Black Elk's dual participation in Catholicism.” For readers of Perennialist writings, it is noteworthy that Fitzgerald's article also includes important new insight into Frithjof Schuon's role in the chain of events leading to the recording of Black Elk's teachings on the Seven Rites.
| New Light on Black Elk and The Sacred Pipe | American Indian Culture and Research Journal | Fitzgerald, Michael | |
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In “To Have a Center,” the signature essay of the book of the same name, Frithjof Schuon surveys the ambiguous phenomenon of modern genius, showing how Western humanistic society has replaced the time-honored veneration of the saint and the hero with the cult of individualistic “genius.”
| To Have a Center | To Have a Center: A New Translation with Selected Letters | Schuon, Frithjof | |
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| A Profusion of Songs | Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy (Chapter 23) | Fitzgerald, Michael | |
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| An Artistic Dimension | Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy (Chapter 18) | Fitzgerald, Michael | |
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| At Variance with Guénon | Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy (Chapter 11) | Fitzgerald, Michael | |
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| Foreword to “Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy” | Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy | Stoddart, William | |
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The “Introduction” to Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy covers a summary of the three dimensions of Schuon’s work (comprehension, concentration, conformation), a brief discussion of how his own life was led in the light of these dimensions, and then presents the essential elements of Schuon’s message in some further details. These elements are discussed under sections titles “Metaphysical Truth,” “Life of Prayer,” and “Moral Conformity.” Besides Fitzgerald’s explication, his points are reinforced by extensive quotes from Schuon’s unique prose, and his poetry.
| Introduction to “Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy” | Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy | Fitzgerald, Michael | |
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| Some Universal Aspects of Judaism | Universal Aspects of the Kabbalah & Judaism | Schaya, Leo | |
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| The Urgent Need for Unbiased Information about Islam | What Does Islam Mean in Today's World (chapter 2) | Stoddart, William | |
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| The Wound of Duality | The Mystery of Individuality (chapter 1) | Perry, Mark | |
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| The Last Breath | Emir Abd el-Kader: Hero and Saint of Islam (chapter 1) | Bouyerdene, Ahmed | |
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| Some Thoughts on Soliciting and Imparting Spiritual Counsel | Psychology and the Perennial Philosophy: Studies in Comparative Religion | Pallis, Marco | |
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| Ecophilosophy in the Light of Tradition | On the Origin of Beauty: Ecophilosophy in the Light of Traditional Wisdom | Griffin, John | |
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| The Introduction from The Essential René Guénon | The Essential René Guénon: Metaphysics, Tradition and the Crisis of Modernity | Lings, Martin | |
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| The Preface from The Essential René Guénon | The Essential René Guénon: Metaphysics, Tradition and the Crisis of Modernity | Herlihy, John | |
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| Kabbalah | The Essential René Guénon: Metaphysics, Tradition and the Crisis of Modernity | Guénon, René | |
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| Essential Characteristics of Metaphysics | The Essential René Guénon: Metaphysics, Tradition and the Crisis of Modernity | Guénon, René | |
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| What is Meant by Tradition | The Essential René Guénon: Metaphysics, Tradition and the Crisis of Modernity | Guénon, René | |
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| Tripura Rahasya, Chapters 1-5 | Tripura Rahasya: The Secret of the Supreme Goddess | Saraswathi, Swami Sri Ramananda | |
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| The Metaphysics of Interfaith Dialogue: Sufi Perspectives on the Universality of the Quranic Message | Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East | Shah-Kazemi, Reza | |
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| About an Intellectual Reform | Returning to the Essential: The Selected Writings of Jean Biès | Biès, Jean | |
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| Islamic Science | The Essential Titus Burckhardt (2003) | Burckhardt, Titus | |
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| "Nature Can Overcome Nature" | The Essential Titus Burckhardt (2003) | Burckhardt, Titus | |
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| The Spiritual Life - Christian | The Essential Titus Burckhardt (2003) | Burckhardt, Titus | |
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