Frithjof Schuon Quotes

The Real Gnostic Does Not Attribute Any "state" To Himself, For He Is Without Ambition And Without Ostentation; He Has A Tendency Rather
through An "instinct For Holding Back"
to Disguise His Nature Inasmuch As He Has, In Any Case, Awareness Of "cosmic Play" (lila) And It Is Hard For Him To Take Secular And Worldly Persons Seriously, That Is To Say, "horizontal" Beings Who Are Full Of Self-confidence And Who Remain, "humanists" That They Are, Below The Vocation Of Man

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