/lit/ - Literature

>>14768276
Again I'm asking -- why Guenon? Why traditionalism? How is this any different from any new age (for a lack of a better word) sectarianism? "hubris is the highest of human folly" -- but anon, why is reading the divine texts by thyself should be considered hubris? And isn't Guenon full of hubris himself if we follow that logic?

>>14768281
>Guénon (pbuh) retroactively refuted the entirety of the so-called "new-age" cults
Ok, cool. But how does that make Guenon's teachings and traditionalism in general a non "new age cult"? From what I've seen it looks very similar if not just like it.

Why would you want and\or need to read into a philosophy that is proceeded from false premises?
Why would you want and\or need to read into a philosophy that is anti-historical?
Why would you want and\or need to read into a philosophy that is unverifiable?
Why would you want and\or need to read into a philosophy that incorrectly interprets "tradition"?

As I assumed in my previous post might be some petty aesthetical reasoning. But that is some fascist-kshatriyas type of aesthetics. If you're into it, just go masturbate to the Italian army uniform, wild tigers and ancients statues while reading some actually good books.

If you want to read something that is similar to traditionalism -- read german romanticists (Novalis, Schlegel, Franz Hoffman). Guenon (like a huge number of modern neopagans by the way) was essentially inspired by them, adopted a lot from them, in fact, the very tone of traditionalism comes precisely from romanticism.
You can read ancient Icelandic literature, eddic songs and skaldic poetry, sagas, read academic studies on runology, mythology, history of Germanic peoples.
You can read Russian religious philosophy.
Or, if you want something radically different, start to study mathematics and logic.
If you normally master at least one of these topics, you can already develop your own metaphysics, which, believe me, will be much deeper and more original than the screwy shit of traditionalism, while being based not from scratch.