/lit/ - Literature

[As it may be, it is not less true that] sentiment is only relativity and dependance [contingence], and that a doctrine which addresses it [ie. sentiment] and to which it reacts can only be itself relative and contingent; and this can be observed particularily at the need of "consolations" to which the religious viewpoint is responding to a great extent.

Truth in itself is not at all consolant; if someone finds it such, it is certainly better for him, but the consolation which he experiences does not arise from the doctrine, it comes from himself only and the particular dispositions of his (own) sentimentality. On the contrary, a doctrine which adapts itself to the exigencies of the sentimental being and which (then) has to reclothe itself in a sentimental form cannot (from then on) be identified with absolute and total truth.

>>20557919
René Guénon defies classification. . . . Were he anything less than a consummate master of lucid argument and forceful expression, his work would certainly be unknown to all but a small, private circle of admirers.”
—Gai Eaton, author of The Richest Vein

“Guénon established the language of sacred metaphysics with a rigor, a breadth, and an intrinsic certainty such that he compels recognition as a standard of comparison for the twentieth century.”
—Jean Borella, author of Guénonian Esoterism and Christian Mystery

“To a materialistic society enthralled with the phenomenal universe exclusively, Guénon, taking the Vedanta as point of departure, revealed a metaphysical and cosmological teaching both macrocosmic and microcosmic about the hierarchized degrees of being or states of existence, starting with the Absolute . . . and terminating with our sphere of gross manifestation.”
—Whitall N. Perry, editor of A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom

“René Guénon was the chief influence in the formation of my own intellectual outlook (quite apart from the question of Orthodox Christianity). . . . It was René Guénon who taught me to seek and love the truth above all else, and to be unsatisfied with anything else.”
—Fr. Seraphim Rose, author of The Soul After Death

“His mixture of arcane learning, metaphysics, and scathing cultural commentary is a continent in itself, untouched by the polluted tides of modernity. . . . Guénon’s work will not save the world—it is too late for that—but it leaves no reader unchanged.”
—Jocelyn Godwin, author of Mystery Religions in the Ancient World

“René Guénon is one of the few writers of our time whose work is really of importance. . . . He stands for the primacy of pure metaphysics over all other forms of knowledge, and presents himself as the exponent of a major tradition of thought, predominantly Eastern, but shared in the Middle Ages by the . . . West.”
—Walter Shewring, translator of Homer’s Odyssey

>>19747454

>"Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth."

ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Yaḥyá

>>14631455
Basé.

>>14516977
>"Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth."

- ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Yaḥyá (pbuh)

Behold, the scourge of /lit/ (pbuh)

>"Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth."

- ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Yaḥyá (pbuh)

What was his opinion on Aisha (peace be upon her)?

guenobump

>>14162022
Guénon isn't haram and he would have definitely been an avid /lit/ poster.

>>11454943
this pic really goes to vindicate Guenon's claim that an over-development of rationalism (le stove man) goes hand in hand with sentimental hogwash (le lobster man). Secretly these trends have always been closely allied.