/lit/ - Literature

>>14956940
yes, there is an eternal divine metaphysical truth which manifests itself in various religions and metaphysical schools according to various degrees of closedness or openness and under various modes and terms of expression more or less befitting to that culture, language and their history

>>14381743
He thought that the caste system more or less is fit for all time as it reflects the divine hierarchy of the cosmos or planes of existence. It would be inappropriate for outside civilizations to adopt it but things like Sharia law he would have considered to be a similar reflection of the divine order specific to Islamic civilization. Guenon heaps praise upon medieval European civilization, the feudal and manor/serf system that was followed for much of the medieval was practically the western equivalent of the caste system. He would probably have preferred if western civilization would have returned to it, but only if accompanied by the relevant understanding and metaphysics otherwise it would pointless and doomed to unravel.

>>13909084

>>13614342
Uh-huh