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>if a small Western elite attains true principles, the modernization process can be reverted
>time's cycle of manifestation is an inevitable descent from the pole of Essence (or forma) toward the pole of Substance (or materia).
How does Guénon reconcile these opposite views? If the process of modernization is inevitable and inherent to the cycle of manifestation, how can be reverted?

WTF the principles are. WTF an elite is supposed to do!!! Why everything has to be so ambiguous and unclear, come on I need to save the West!!!!!!

Are Guenon and the perennialists legit or is it all just a meme?

>>15023981
René Guénon (pbuh)

>>15018674
>Guénon was a brainle-
He was proficient at Greek, Latin, English, Italian, German, Spanish, Sanskrit, Hebraic, 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 heaped praise on him include Carl Schmitt, Georges Bataille, Aleksander Dugin, Antonin Artaud, Olavo de Carvalho, André Breton, Mircea Eliade, Alain Danielou, Julius Evola, 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

Good morning, brothers. May peace be upon him.

>>15009986
Imagine if Guenon (pbuh) was around when Feynman started the anti-philosophy - pop sci movement. He would've been utterly refuted.

>>15009763
*blocks your path