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The Universal Spirit of Islam: Keys for Interfaith Understanding
World Wisdom's Spiritual Classics series
Interview with Frithjof Schuon - on Art
The Writings of Frithjof Schuon
Interview with Frithjof Schuon - on Primordiality
Exploring "Timeless in Time" - a biography of Sri Ramana Maharshi
What is Sacred Art?
Spiritual Poetry
A Definition of the Perennial Philosophy
William C. Chittick explores "The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi"
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This is taken from a transcript of a 1995 interview with the eminent
Perennialist thinker and writer Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998).

Question: May I ask you what the role of art is in the spiritual existence of man?

Frithjof Schuon: We could say that after morals, art—in the broadest sense of the word—is a natural and necessary dimension of the human condition. Plato said: “Beauty is the splendor of the true.” So let us say that art—including crafts—is a projection of truth and beauty in the world of forms; it is ipso facto a projection of archetypes. And it is essentially an exteriorization in view of an interiorization; art does not mean dispersion, it means concentration, a way back to God. Every traditional civilization has created a framework of beauty: a natural, ecologically necessary surrounding for spiritual life.
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