/lit/ - Literature

I've seen multiple posts here recently saying how the Koran is basically retard tier. If this is so, why did someone like Guenon convert to Islam? This isn't a gotcha moment, I just don't get how someone that smart converted to a religion for inbred arabs.

First, his idea of the literal existence of a Hyperborean proto-religion in the past is absurd, and this is what Guenon builds most of his philosophy on. We should understand Tradition (capital T) as eternal unchanging principles that are embodied in religions/traditions (small letter) of different peoples - Numinous Sacred, holy fear and madness, structures of hierarchy and society (Dumezil, structuralism, language, archetypes), Gods as fathers of peoples and patrons of spheres of life etc. Also, his idea of counter-initiation can be viewed as an obvious trace or affect of Abrahamic dualism. It’s basically a figure of «Absolute Evil» and another name for the Antichrist. Or, from another point of view, the roots of this idea are a modernist echo in the works of Guenon, who was inclined to think not in plural, but in universal and sometimes even progressive categories. We need to understand the plurality of forms and experiences of the sacred; what is sacred and initiatic for one society might be strictly taboo for another one. Therefore it is impossible to speak about a universal formula of counter-initiation. Also, just look at his degenerate face. I ask myself - can a real intellectual have such a forehead? How much did his brain weigh?

guenon looks high as shit

in all of his pics it looks like he's on heroin, but this one is the worst

>>18432649
Rene Guenon is so based, I love him lol

>“In a world increasingly rife with heresy and pseudo-religion, Guénon had to remind twentieth century man of the need for orthodoxy, which presupposes firstly a Divine Revelation and secondly a Tradition that has handed down with fidelity what Heaven has revealed. He thus restores to orthodoxy its true meaning, rectitude of opinion which compels the intelligent man not only to reject heresy but also to recognize the validity of faiths other than his own if they also are based on the same two principles, Revelation and Tradition.”
—Martin Lings, author of Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions

>“If during the last century or so there has been even some slight revival of awareness in the Western world of what is meant by metaphysics and metaphysical tradition, the credit for it must go above all to Guénon. At a time when the confusion into which modern Western thought had fallen was such that it threatened to obliterate the few remaining traces of genuine spiritual knowledge from the minds and hearts of his contemporaries, Guénon, virtually single-handed, took it upon himself to reaffirm the values and principles which, he recognized, constitute the only sound basis for the living of a human life with dignity and purpose or for the formation of a civilization worthy of the name.”
—Philip Sherrard, author of Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition

>“Apart from his amazing flair for expounding pure metaphysical doctrine and his critical acuteness when dealing with the errors of the modern world, Guénon displayed a remarkable insight into things of a cosmological order. . . . He all along stressed the need, side by side with a theoretical grasp of any given doctrine, for its concrete—one can also say its ontological—realization failing which one cannot properly speak of knowledge.”
—Marco Pallis, author of A Buddhist Spectrum

>“Guénon’s mission was two-fold: to reveal the metaphysical roots of the ‘crisis of the modern world’ and to explain the ideas behind the authentic and esoteric teachings that still [remain] alive.”
—Harry Oldmeadow, author of Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy

>Guénon was a pseu-
He was proficient at Greek, Latin, English, Italian, Russian, Polish, German, Spanish, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese, was trained in mathematics and was extremely well-read in both eastern and western philosophy
>Guénon was a stupid posing larpe-
He was initiated into both a Vietnamese Taoist Triad as well as the al-'Arabiyya Shadhiliyya Sufi order, furthermore in all his writings he stressed the need for personal and genuine participation in whatever Traditions one aspired to follow. His acquaintances both Egyptian and western observed that he scrupulously followed Islamic observances during his life in Egypt
>Guénon was a literal nobody, he was not influenti-
Among the many western philosophers, artists and authors who were influenced by him or who warmly praised him include Carl Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, Aleksander Dugin, Seraphim Rose, Antonin Artaud, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Olavo de Carvalho, André Breton, Mircea Eliade, Alain Danielou, Julius Evola, Michel Valsan, André Malraux, Albert Gleizes, René Daumal, Raymond Queneau, Paul Ackerman, Huston Smith, William Chittick, Steve Bannon, Harry Oldmeadow, James Cutsinger and Hossein Nasr. Furthermore as Nasr notes in his article 'The Influence of Rene Guenon in the Islamic World', Guénon is well-known and influential among the intelligentsia including traditional Islamic scholars in certain Islamic countries such in Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia.
>Guénon just made a bunch of stupid and unjustified comparisons between religio-
To the contrary over the course of some twenty odd books he painstakingly and patiently elucidated the fundamental agreement between the metaphysics of Advaita Vedanta, Taoism, Sufism, Hermeticism and Christian esoterism, work that Coomaraswamy built on and further confirmed

BASED

https://youtu.be/LQOvpLUoYxw

What is the next redpill after him?

>>16903847
didn't filter one man

Rene Guenon

>>14382689
Forgot to post pic