/lit/ - Literature

>>20894140
I mentioned Guénon to my fat paki friend and he looked into him on some mooslem forum or something and then started sperging out and calling him a nazi and wahhabi kek. Made me view the guy as a bit of a retard

Hey gays.
What Guenon's book should I read first
I'm kind of esoteric occultism new fag
I want to understand religion.
Iam a secular humanist .
And no I won't read evola
Thx

>>18926042
>Sounds like it doesn't exist at all.
According to the Mandukya Upanishad and Mandukya Karika, it exists in every moment at the same time as everything else, it is the constant, effortless and natural basis in which everything else takes place. The self-shining presence which accounts for the uninterrupted continuity throughout waking, dream and deep-sleep. No explanation of consciousness and mind is coherent without there being a pure subject or pure consciousness. If at the end of the road there is just objects and no non-objective presence, then there is nobody to know the objects, there is nothing providing for them to be integrated into the unwavering continuum of awareness which we experience. The mind changes and is fallible, but your access to the contents of the mind like thoughts and sense-perceptions is always infallible, and this is because the ground of mental-contents coming into being is unwavering pure consciousness.
>Don't know why you even bother with the concept at that point.
yea, why bother talking about philosophy and metaphysics at all if its not about objects we can perceive right in front of us? like just be a logical positivist and read Steven Pinker lmao

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>>17407654
Why do you need justification to know God exists?

People don't "have" souls, they are souls. You are not a body with a soul, you are a soul with a temporary body.

Explain guenons philosophy to me in 150 words.
Why do you like him so much?

>>16984716
Accept Islam

Let's read Guenon.
What do you like about Guenon?

>>15964256
>>15964260
>>15964336
ALLAHU AKBAR!

Anyone here ex-/pol/ browsers? Is it just me or has /pol/ just turned into utter fucking shit? I physically feel ill reading the threads there when I accidentally click there. Mind you I'm still the same esoteric hitlerist I was in 2016. Everything there now feels exactly like either boomers or underaged teenagers (nothing in between) discovering their first racism 101. Its just cringe valueless garbage.

Has its iq declined or was it always like this even in my peak /pol/ posting years (2014-2017)?

/lit/ now feels like a high brow version of what I was browsing in 2015.

>>14924268
>why am i on the verge of tears again
because you have not accepted the auspicious light of Rene Guenon (pbuh) into your heart

>>14671628
based, should be added to the OP post of further Rene Guenon (pbuh) generals along with

https://www.gornahoor.net/

http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/home.aspx

>>14671729
He agree with the Hindu view that there is an eternal cycle of the universe(s) emanating from, being sustained by and then dissolving back into the Supreme Being where it remains in a latent unmanifest state until being made manifest again at the start of a new stage of the cycle.
>>14672446
Damascius, Iamblichus, Eirugena and Nicholas of Cusa (the latter two of whom Guenon (pbuh) cites approvingly in his books on metaphysics). Eirugena's metaphysics are possibly the closet European thought ever came to Advaita Vedanta at least in terms of a systematized metaphysical framework
>>14673464
Guenon (pbuh) speculates in some of his writing that when the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) traveled to Mesopatamia with his uncle on trading excursions that he may have come into contact with and been initiated by Nestorian Christians who were known to reside in that region and who represented an earlier initiatic current in Christianity. Jason Jorjani in one video talks about how some esoteric Shia groups believed that Salman the Persian initiated the Prophet (pbuh). It's not really necessary though at the stage of divine revelation to be initiated because this act of revelation can include within itself something equivalent to initiation or it can constitute a initiation. For example in the Upanishads it says that Brahman taught the truth to the Demiurge-like Prajapati who then taught it to the line of human sages who then passed it down in succession.

>>14632161
Based...

>>14616792
This leads us to repeat an essential point on which not the slightist ambiguity must be allowed to persist: intellectual intuition, by which alone metaphysical knowledge is to be obtained, has absolutely nothing in common with this other ‘intuition’ of which certain contemporary philosophers speak: the latter pertains to the sensible realm and in fact is sub-rational, whereas the former, which is pure intelligence, is on the contrary supra-rational. But the moderns, knowing nothing higher than reason in the order of intelligence, do not even conceive of the possibility of intellectual intuition, whereas the doctrines of the ancient world and of the Middle Ages, even when they were no more than philosophical in character, and therefore incapable of effectively calling this intuition into play, nevertheless explicitly recognized its existence and its supremacy over all the other faculties. This is why there was no rationalism before Descartes, for rationalism is a specifically modern phenomenon, one that is closely connected with individualism, being nothing other than the negation of any faculty of a supra- individual order. As long as Westerners persist in ignoring or denying intellectual intuition, they can have no tradition in the true sense of the word, nor can they reach any understanding with the authentic representatives of the Eastern civilizations, in which everything, so to speak, derives from this intuition, which is immutable and infallible in itself, and the only starting-point for any development in conformity with traditional norms

>>14594636
A complete collection of Guenon's works.

>>14525220
they craft them and other people save them.
>Google images
that's counter-initiation and counter-tradition to 4chanic tradition.

Most /lit/ books for converting to Islam?

Also have a few questions about Jews in Islam:
1) What is the Islamic stance on the validity of the Torah currently in use by the Jews?
2) What is the Islamic stance on Jews being allowed to abandon Allah's previous commandments (keeping the Sabbath, etc)?

>>14459671
Why even live

>>14461006
Something something retroactively refuted, something something islamic traditionalism.

>>14435182

>>14413940
>Post a pic of yourself with a book you recieved for xmas

Where do I start with Gweenon?