Edited sentence: His perspective is truly universal in the sense of embracing all orders of reality from the Divine to the human and on the human level worlds as far apart as that of Abrahamic monotheism and the Shamanic heritage of Shintoism and the North American Indian religions.Schuon possesses the gift of reaching the very core of the subject that he is treating, of going beyond forms to the essential formless Center of forms whether they be religious, artistic or related to certain features and traits of the Cosmic and human order.Schuon's writings are universal, not only because the formless Essence is universal but also because on the level of forms he does not confine himself solely to a particular world, period and region.The writings of Schuon are characterized by essentiality, universality and comprehensiveness.They have the quality of essentiality because they always go to the heart and are concerned with the essence of what they deal with.To read and understand his books means that one should go from the shell to the kernel, to be carried on a journey that is at once spiritual and intellectual from the circumference to the center