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>Evola claims that Freemasonry was originally a vehicle of genuine Tradition, but it was infiltrated and taken over by partisans of the Counter-Tradition

This he got from Guénon. According to Guénon, Freemasonry was infiltrated in 17th century.

Guénon also tells that all traditions are not evil, but when they are adopted by counter-tradition, they can become evil.

For example Guénon said that it would be extremely dangerous to "revive" Egyptian tradition (Pyramids, Benben stones etc.) and Egyptian symbols and religion in modern age, because it is a "dead" tradition that died naturally.

By reviving the Egyptian tradition and adopting their symbols through counter-initiation, one only activates the "psychic residues" of those dead traditions and may even adopt the so-called negative traits of those civilizations. For example, the Atlantean destruction of Egyptian civilization Guénon talks about (getting destroyed by the Hyksos etc.)

That is why Guénon maintained the importance of genuine, unbroken traditions and that is why he converted to Sufism, because the Sufi lineages can be traced, unbroken to Prophet Muhammad himself and it was never "dead", but continous spiritual influence from the founder itself.

This is not the case of Egypt. The Egyptian civilization died it's natural death, so to speak, and the religion died out (except some mystery schools of Pythagoras etc.), but the worship of Ra and others did not continue exoterically. Guénon points out that some counter-initiatic people in America have tried to revive those very same Egyptian symbols and also the westerners through their Egyptomania.