“The beauty of the sacred is a symbol or a foretaste of, and sometimes a means for, the joy that God alone procures.”

— Frithjof Schuon

[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 38, 978-1-93659700-0]
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Swiss philosopher 1907–1998

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