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The mother of all /lit/ retroactive refutations.

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The thinker Réné Guénon for detoxing myself.

>Concerning non-vocal music, by which I mean one involving any use of pitched musical instruments, it is humbly and with all deference my opinion that all such activities should be abandoned in favour of purely vocal chants handed down through the oral tradition. It is more than likely that if a free reign of music was permitted in a society displaying even a slight state of decadence, there would remain very few musicians who display a true understanding of the traditional order and the purpose of music within it, which is a role purely subordinate to that of the traditional institutions; instead, as in the case of Europe, we might face ourselves with certain groups infiltrating the musical tradition and subverting it from within. Certainly, the historical record would bear this out. The events of the past few decades with the emergence of the most vile and repulsive 'composers' such as Erik Satie and Erwin Schulhoff offer the perfect example.
- Réné Guénon explains to Julius Evola

Reminder to ignore all pseudointellectual rhetoriticians and instead go and read the complete works of Śaṅkarācārya, Guénon, al-Ġazālī, Plotinus, Abhinavagupta, Ibn ʿArabi, Jñāneśvar, Plato, Böhme, Kabīr, Ismāʿīl Ḥaḳḳī al-Brūsawī, Ānandavardhana, Iamblichus, Najmuddīn-e Kubrā, Palamas, Dattatreya, Gauḍapāda, Dölpopa, Han Yu, Mulla Sadrā, Coomaraswamy, Vaśiṣṭha, Bonaventure, Sanā'ī, Vyāsa, Ya'qūb al-Sijistānī, Vidyāraṇya, Longchenpa, Kṣemarāja, Damascius, Gurū Nānak, Baba Afzal, Śrīharṣa, Laozi, Matsyendranātha, Porphyry, Jāmī, Meister Eckhart, Madhusūdana Sarasvatī, Zhuangzi, ibn Khaldūn, Syrianus, Frithjof Schuon, Asaṅga, Bhaṭṭa Kallaṭa, Suhrawardī, van Ruysbroec, Kūkai, Jean Borella, Bādarāyaṇa, Clement of Alexandria, Vālmīki, Nṛsimhāshrama, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Gorakhnath, Eriugena, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Chitsukha, Qūnawī, Somananda, Rangjung Dorje, Patañjali, Namdev, Aṭṭār, Rāmānujā, Shao Yong, Uždavinys and Ibn Bājja

"We accompanied him later when he left his retreat and went to the Sultan Abu'l Ala Mosque. Sitting down with a group engaged in 'dhikr', Guenon began murmuring to himself and to shake; his words then became audible and his movements intensified; finally he immersed himself in, and was absorbed by, the 'dhikr'. I had to arouse him later, and he stirred himself with a shudder. To me it seemed that he had returned from a far off and unknown land."

name a 20th century thinker who is more relevant today than René Guénon

>pro-tip: you can't

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Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines by Guenon is good

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Guenon is one of the most influential intellectuals driving the zeitgeist among /lit/'s highest quality posters. 'Guenonfag' does not exist, people who were't capable of arguing against Guenon's ideas invented him so they could attack Guenon via proxy without any serious discussion of his ideas ever.

>t. oldfag here since 2009

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the GOAT

THE Hermetic tradition is, strictly speaking, concerned with knowledge which is not metaphysical but only cosmological, in the double sense of "macrocosmic" and "microcosmic." This statement must not be taken in any sense as a depreciation of the traditional sciences which come under the heading of Hermetism, or of those which correspond to them in other doctrinal forms of East and West; but if everything is to be put in its rightful place, then it must be admitted that these sciences, like all specialized knowledge, are merely secondary and derivative with regard to the principles. In fact they are no more than a particular application of the principles at a lower level of reality. To maintain the contrary would mean giving precedence to "Royal Art"[2] over "Sacerdotal Art."

It cannot be contested that it is from Hermes that Hermetism takes its name. The Greek Hermes has in fact characteristics which correspond exactly to the sciences in question and which are strikingly expressed, for example, by his chief attribute, the Caduceus. No doubt there will be another opportunity for us to examine its symbolism more fully; suffice it to say for the moment that this symbolism is essentially and directly related to what might be called "human alchemy"[3] and is concerned with the possibilities of the subtle state, even if these are to be taken merely as the preparatory means to a higher realization, as are, in Hinduism, the equivalent Hatha-Yoga practices. This can moreover be transferred to the cosmic order, since everything in man has its correspondence in the outer world, and vice-versa[4]; here again, and by reason of this very correspondence, the domain in question is the "intermediary world" where are brought into play forces whose dual nature is very clearly figured by the two serpents of the Caduceus. It may be remembered also, in this connection, that Hermes is represented as the messenger of the Gods and as their interpreter (hermeneutes), that is, precisely, an intermediary between the celestial and terrestrial worlds, and that he has in addition the function of "guide of the souls of the dead" which, in a lower order, is clearly related also to the domain of the subtle possibilities.[5]

All of philosophy leads up to Traditionalism and the thought of Guénon and associates, which ended it once and for all. People that still go on presumptuously trying philosophize at this point are just engaging in willful ignorance. Guénon did a Herculean task by exposing the root of the ills of modern society and by so clearly delineating to us what our options are. No amount of philosophy will ever come close to unearthing the immutable truths that the primordial Tradition has known all along. No amount of modern pretentiousness will ever surmount the highest wisdom. Brothers! Let us put an end to this contemptuous and foolish charade. It is time to no longer ignore the proverbial elephant, it does us dishonor.

stop reading process philosophy

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>I have returned, as Gandalf the White

If they can understand him, he will make anybody fuck-the-world-tier genius metaphysician