id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5757 Frithjof Schuon - Wikipedia .html text/html 10846 792 63 According to French Professor Patrick Laude, Schuon established himself – through his many books, articles and letters –, "as the principal spokesman of the intellectual current sometimes referred to in English speaking countries as perennialism",[30] or the Traditionalist School.[31] During his years in Lausanne and Bloomington he regularly received visits from "practitioners and representatives of diverse religions".[32] The metaphysicians and art specialists Ananda Coomaraswamy and Titus Burckhardt also became prominent advocates of this intellectual current.[46] According to the perennialist writer William Stoddart, "the central idea of the perennial philosophy is that Divine Truth is one, timeless and universal, and that the different religions are but different languages expressing that one Truth" – hence the title given by Schuon to his first book in French, De l'unité transcendante des religions.[47] For Professor Patrick Laude, a perennialist author is "one who claims the universality and primordiality of fundamental metaphysical principles and the perennity of the wisdom that actualizes these principles in man, as expressed in all great revelations and major teachings of sages and saints throughout the ages".[48] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5757.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5757.txt