/lit/ - Literature

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"What also surprised me a great deal was the regret that I had no biographical information about myself; this is something I have always formally opposed, and above all for a reason of principle, because, according to traditional doctrine, individualities count for nothing and must disappear entirely ... But, in spite of this, I am obliged at least to rectify erroneous assertions when they occur; For example, I cannot let it be said that I am "converted to Islam", because this way of presenting things is completely false; anyone who is aware of the essential unity of traditions is by this very fact "unconvertible" to anything, he is even the only one who is; but he can "settle down", if it is permitted to express himself in this way, in this or that tradition according to circumstances, and especially for reasons of an initiatory nature. I would like to add in this regard that my links with Islamic esoteric organizations are not something more or less recent as some people seem to think; in fact, they are almost 40 years old...".
- Letter from René Guénon to A. Daniélou, August 27, 1947, my translation - i'm french and my English is bad so sorry if there are mistakes

Retarded Muslims who try to grab his glory must get out. Guénon was Sufi at the end of his life, for purely practical reasons: he already had links with Sufi organizations and he wanted to leave France. The closest and most convenient was the Maghreb.

99.99% of the Muslims who try to seize Guénon's genius by saying "he converted to Islam lol" are refuted by the master himself in this letter and probably never read it, because they would make apostate any Muslim having 1/10th of Guénon's beliefs. Some points of his belief in brief:

1. that all religions are currently valid to lead to God and that Islam is only the most practical path of our time for a European
2. that deliverance (union with the Absolute, death of the ego, al-fana' ) is superior to salvation (entry into paradise), the latter being there for the masses when deliverance is the way of the elites
3. that the world is a part of God and that there is an Absolute superior to the personal God.
4. that it is desirable to achieve supra-individual states through intiation
5. that there is an esoteric path that transcends religious divisions

The Sufi Islam of Guénon is: yes.

The exoteric Islam of 99.99% of the Muslims on earth: it's no, it's shit, and it's probably the worst exotericism still alive.

Small message to the islamists who play the guenonfags to convert naive people to their shitty sect

I need some good books on the mythology and the gods of various countries. Is there a collection that I can get where each book in the collection is on a different country's mythology

>>14616706
Lovecraft is just guenon without a mustache

Guenon is peak aesthetic physiognomy traditionalism.

>>14480274
he looks like guenon

uhhhhh have you ever heard of
"Guenon"???

Are there any logical-empiricist positivsts here who have a strong respect for Guenon's claims on the possibility of there being eternal, objective truths about the universe?

Is guenon actually worth reading?

>>13556364

This is /trad/ general.

Here we discuss Guenon, Evola, and the intervention of the 'non-human' into the life of Man.

Discussion question 1: is meditation /trad/?

Discussion question 2: what's with all the 'scare quotes' in Guenon's writing?

...that don't involve converting to Islam? Hoping to find something near me, but I'm not about to become a Sufi.

FUCK Guénon (and jannies), Abd al-Wāḥid Yaḥyá is where it's at

What does this french flovor-of-the-month faggot you retards are spamming have to say about the immortal Marx?

Where do I start with this man? And is he relevant if I don't care about eastern metaphysics?

>>11116004
I don't see many sick pictures of guenon in his youth, but if you were in the last thread you did see the triangles = squares chapter guenon wrote towards the end of his life. Besides that, he still looks like a normal guy