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>>21040019
Are you talking about studying Traditionalism as a grad student doing a Masters or PhD?

If so, there are a few possible places for you I think. At Cambridge, I talked to a few professors about it - in the Cambridge Divinity Faculty itself, Tim Winter (Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad) could possibly supervise you with something related to Traditionalism, but you would of course have to create a relationship with him first.

There are a few western scholars of Traditionalism you could get in touch with - chief among them are probably Patrick Laude and Mark Sedgwick. The former is probably better if you want to take up Traditionalism from the 'inside', so to speak, compared to Sedgwick who takes a more impersonal approach. In the UK, there is the Centre for the Study of Esotericism at Exeter, but I have no idea about their staff or whether they are interested in Traditionalism, could have a look though.

From speaking to certain professors, there are probably more people in France that could supervise you, but I am less knowledgeable here - Xavier Accart seems to be the prime expert on Guenon.

Studying Evola is probably not possible unless you want to take him up as simply a historical curiosity - he is too extreme for academia. But I have met many who are sympathetic to Guenon.

I would think seriously about what you are doing though - you are right that there is probably a niche for Traditionalism in theology or divinity faculties in certain places, but it is tiny, and it will probably be quite a soul sucking process since the academic mode of writing and analysis will be squarely opposed to everything in the Traditionalist corpus.

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Brothers.... I coomed onto a picture of Guenon (pbuh)...
I contemplated and an evil force tried to subvert me.... How do I protect myself and repent from this grave sin?..

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>>15890416
>Author isn't a Traditionalist
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Post renaissance Catholics are not Trad BTW

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>>15722107
i've never though about it this way. based as fuck.

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When citing Guenon (pbuh), do I just cite him as Guenon or Abd al-Wāḥid Yaḥyá? This is for a uni course.

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Refuted by Guenon (pbuh), retroactively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0dOZcSjOoE

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OP here,

After relating this back to what I have read from Guenon (pbuh), I no longer like this argument. The material can be defined by its nature of being ever changing, so it need no starting point; it is just an endless, formless void that must have form asserted on it by the immaterial.

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>>14989485
>i should just move to a different planet
Hylic cringe! Contemplation > action!

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Guenon's (pbuh) Name (pbut) is an Eternal Light to us brothers...
But for the hylic.. for him... it is akin to Eternal Hellfire...

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>>14818245
>arguments
>not detected

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>>14772449
>retroactive ṣalawāt on our Great Teacher (pbuh)
holy based....

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Every time I open a collection of sayings by Guenon (pbuh) I am left awestruck by the sheer power of his gnosis...
I pray that someday I shall become like him (pbuh).

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>>14693704
Good point. We need a return to Real French Philosophy.

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“In a world increasingly rife with heresy and pseudo-religion, Guénon (pbuh) 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 (pbuh). 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 (pbuh), 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 (pbuh) 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 (pbuh) 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

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>>14638821
>never seriously converted to Islam
Indeed. He was a revert to Islam, as one cannot "convert" to it like to a manmade faith like Christianity.

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>>14634444
>quads guenon post
based

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>>14632194
Based. Start with Crisis of the Modern world, my friend. If you want, read about a 100 pages of Introduction to Hindu Doctrines beforehand, as it presents a retroactive refutation of modernity and then moves on to deeper metaphysics.

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>>14631913
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

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>>14623170
You already know the answer, brother...

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>a great metaphysical mathematician
>well-versed in sacred geometry
>has deep knowledge of the entirety of the Canon, both East and West
>reinstituted true metaphysics in the West
>knows Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Sanskrit, Chinese, Latin, Ancient Greek and more
>single-handedly refuted centuries upon centuries of invalid Western thought
>is revered and venerated as a saint (or even more) by both Easterners and Westerners alike
>achieved Unity with God on his deathbed
Peace be upon him.

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>>14598984
Marxism and capitalism are merely two sides of the same diabolical coin. It's like you guys don't even read Guenon (pbuh).

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>>14593785
>In the 19th century
>Renaissance and enlightenment marked the beginning of the Dwapara Yuga
Retroactively refuted by Guenon (pbuh).

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Based guenonposters.

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