glossary of terms used by frithjof schuon - Sophia Perennis

Let us specify that the idea of the Logos is polyvalent: If God is “Beyond-Being” – which
He never is in ordinary theology – the Logos will be creating or conceiving Being; if God
is Being, the Logos will be His creating or efficient Word; if this Word is God, the Logos
will be the reflection of God in the cosmos, namely the universal Intellect. [CI, The Idea
of “The Best” in Religions]
The Logos – the Avatara – presents himself either objectively as “Divine Image,” in
which case he is transcendent in relation to ordinary men, or subjectively as the Intellect,
in which case he is immanent; he is then like the door towards the Divine Self, the
immanent Divine Subject in our immortal substance. [RHC, Man in the Face of the
Sovereign Good]
The Logos is one, but its modes of human manifestation may differ without in any way
detracting from its quality as Logos. [CI, Alternations in Semitic Monotheism]
Love: Love is on the one hand our tendency towards God – the tendency of the accident
towards the Substance – and on the other hand our consciousness of “myself” in the
“other,” and of the “other” in ourselves; it is also the sense of beauty, above us and
around us and in our own soul. [CI, The Question of Evangelicalism]
Love, to the extent that it transcends itself in the direction of its supernatural source, is
the love of man for God and of God for man, and finally it is Beatitude without origin
and without end. [TM, Reflections on Ideological Sentimentalism]
Love is the tendency towards Union: this tendency can be a movement, either towards the
Immutable, the Absolute, or towards the Limitless, the Infinite. [EH, Diverse Aspects of
Initiatory Alchemy]
If by the word ‘love’ the Torah and the Gospel express above all the idea of ‘union’, or of
‘will for union’, they make it clear, by the epithets that follow, that this comprises
differing modes, in conformity with the diversity of man’s nature; it would be necessary
then to say, not, love alone draws towards God, but rather, what draws towards God is
alone love. [GDW, Love of God: Consciousness of the Real]
Love (pure): Pure love is not of this world of oppositions; it is by origin celestial and its
end is God; it lives, as it were in itself, by its own light and in the ray of God-Love.
[GDW, The Christian Tradition, Some Thoughts on its Nature]
Lucifer: Not to admit that which exceeds us, and not to wish to exceed oneself: that is in
fact the whole program of psychologism, and it is the very definition of Lucifer. The
opposite or primordial and normative attitude is: not to think except in reference to that
which exceeds us, and to live but for the sake of exceeding oneself; to seek greatness
where this is to be found, and not on the plane of the individual and his rebellious
pettiness. In order to rejoin true greatness, man must first of all agree to pay the debt of
his own pettiness by remaining small on the plane where he cannot help being small; the
sense of objective reality, on the one hand, and of the absolute, on the other, does not go
without a certain abnegation, and it is this abnegation in fact which allows us to be fully
faithful to our human vocation. [LT, The Contradiction of Relativism]
Macrocosm: The macrocosm – the ensemble of worlds and cosmic cycles – is an
inexhaustible realm, in accordance with the indeterminate nature of the Universal
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