Guenonian metaphysics questions

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Guenonian metaphysics questions Anonymous Sat Feb 4 13:27:23 2023 No.21613058 [Reply] [Original]

So I'm reading this and I understood it well, until Guenon started talking about religion and metaphysics, a few things of which he said about them kind of filtered me. Mostly the wording of what he said was kind of unintelligible to me. Here are some questions I have:
1) In what way do 'social and sentimental elements preponderate over the intellectual', such as in the case of Protestantism?
1.1) In what way is Catholicism more 'intellectual' whilst Protestantism is more 'sentimental'? (i.e. What's the difference between Catholic dogma and Protestant dogma (or the absence thereof)?)
2) What does Guenon mean by 'universal order' in this passage?:
>It may now be stated that metaphysics, understood in this way, is essentially the knowledge of the Universal, or, if preferred, the knowledge of principles belonging to the universal order,
3) What is the Aristotelian and Scholastic 'pure intellect', and how does one attain such a faculty?
4) When Guenon says,
>[...] the most essential difference between a metaphysical doctrine and a religious dogma; whereas the metaphysical point of view is purely intellectual, the religious point of view implies as a fundamental characteristic the presence of a sentimental element affecting the doctrine itself, which does not allow of its preserving an attitude of entirely disinterested speculation;
what does he mean by 'does not allow of its preserving an attitude of entirely disinterested speculation'? What does this clause mean?
5) In this passage:
>It can now be seen that the theological point of view is only a particularization of the metaphysical point of view, implying a proportional alteration; it is an application of it to contingent conditions, one might say, the mode of adaption being determined by the nature of the conditions to which it must respond, since after all these special exigencies furnish the only reason for its existence.
5.1) What are the 'contingent conditions'?
5.2) What is a 'mode of adaption'?
5.3) What is 'the nature of the conditions'?
6) What is the reasoning behind this statement, and how is Guenon trying to critique it?:
>[...] the immediate metaphysical truth 'Being is', when expressed according to the religious or theological mode, will give rise to another proposition, namely that 'God exists'; but the two statements would not be strictly equivalent except on the double condition of conceiving God as Universal Being—which is far from always being the case in fact—and of identifying existence with pure Being, which is metaphysically inexact.
7) What is the 'sphere of applications', mentioned in Chapter 7 'Symbolism and Anthropomorphism'?
Thanks in advance.

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