/RG/ Rene Guenon(pbuh) General

[guenonposter !!ZaMilZJb7x4 No.14653259]

Brothers, the amount of Guenon(pbuh) support and fan art has been tremendous. Supremely based.

https://archive.org/details/reneguenon

[Anonymous No.14653262]

Peace be upon my ass

[guenonposter !!ZaMilZJb7x4 No.14653268]

>>14653262
This thread is for fruitful discussions of Guenon(pbuh) only.

[Anonymous No.14653312]

>"(...) Furthermore it is not surprising that the Anglo-Saxon passion for “sport” gains more and more ground every day; the ideal of the modern world is the “human animal” who has developed his muscular strength to the utmost; its heroes are the athletes, should they even be brutes; it is they who awaken the popular enthusiasm and it is their exploits that command the passionate interest of the crowd; a world in which such things are possible has indeed sunk low and would seem to be nearing its end."

René Guenon - A Material Civilization

[Anonymous No.14653339]

>>14653312
So Traditionalism is essentially the virgin philosophy? A sort of lashing out by the emasculated at the chad? Is this why the Nietzschean have always been an antithesis to the Guenonites?

[Anonymous No.14653343]

>>14653339
>this why the Nietzschean have always been an antithesis to the Guenonites
interesting, how?

[Anonymous No.14653352]

[Anonymous No.14653415]

>>14653259
Based thread, brother.
>>14653312
Based refutation of the animalistic Anglo by Shaykh René Guénon (pbuh).
>>14653339
>>14653352
>philosophy
>emasculation
>serrano
>Nietzschean
Retroactively refuted by Shaykh René Guénon (pbuh).

[Anonymous No.14653506]

>>14653339
>chad
A true chad is never animal-like in his nature as a proper traditional representative of the Kshatriya. The Guenonian (pbuh) refutation is correct, naturally.
>Nietzsche
A weak & petulant manchild who lashed out at the world, refusing to recognize his proper position as a mere slave of Allah (swt).
>antithesis
As a based Jivanmukti, Guenon (pbuh) was above and beyond all duality. Moreover, the profane notion of 'antithesis' has been retroactively refuted by Guenon (pbuh).

[Anonymous No.14653539]

>Why should I read Guenon (pbuh)
>What does Guenon (pbuh) have to offer?

“René Guénon (pbuh) defies classification. . . . Were he anything less than a consummate master of lucid argument and forceful expression, his work would certainly be unknown to all but a small, private circle of admirers.”
—Gai Eaton, author of The Richest Vein

“Guénon (pbuh) established the language of sacred metaphysics with a rigor, a breadth, and an intrinsic certainty such that he compels recognition as a standard of comparison for the twentieth century.”
—Jean Borella, author of Guénonian Esoterism and Christian Mystery

“To a materialistic society enthralled with the phenomenal universe exclusively, Guénon (pbuh), taking the Vedanta as point of departure, revealed a metaphysical and cosmological teaching both macrocosmic and microcosmic about the hierarchized degrees of being or states of existence, starting with the Absolute . . . and terminating with our sphere of gross manifestation.”
—Whitall N. Perry, editor of A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom

“René Guénon (pbuh) was the chief influence in the formation of my own intellectual outlook (quite apart from the question of Orthodox Christianity). . . . It was René Guénon (pbuh) who taught me to seek and love the truth above all else, and to be unsatisfied with anything else.”
—Fr. Seraphim Rose, author of The Soul After Death

“His mixture of arcane learning, metaphysics, and scathing cultural commentary is a continent in itself, untouched by the polluted tides of modernity. . . . Guénon’s (pbuh) work will not save the world—it is too late for that—but it leaves no reader unchanged.”
—Jocelyn Godwin, author of Mystery Religions in the Ancient World

“René Guénon (pbuh) is one of the few writers of our time whose work is really of importance. . . . He stands for the primacy of pure metaphysics over all other forms of knowledge, and presents himself as the exponent of a major tradition of thought, predominantly Eastern, but shared in the Middle Ages by the . . . West.”
—Walter Shewring, translator of Homer’s Odyssey

[Anonymous No.14653549]

“In a world increasingly rife with heresy and pseudo-religion, Guénon (pbuh) had to remind twentieth century man of the need for orthodoxy, which presupposes firstly a Divine Revelation and secondly a Tradition that has handed down with fidelity what Heaven has revealed. He thus restores to orthodoxy its true meaning, rectitude of opinion which compels the intelligent man not only to reject heresy but also to recognize the validity of faiths other than his own if they also are based on the same two principles, Revelation and Tradition.”
—Martin Lings, author of Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions

“If during the last century or so there has been even some slight revival of awareness in the Western world of what is meant by metaphysics and metaphysical tradition, the credit for it must go above all to Guénon (pbuh). At a time when the confusion into which modern Western thought had fallen was such that it threatened to obliterate the few remaining traces of genuine spiritual knowledge from the minds and hearts of his contemporaries, Guénon (pbuh), virtually single-handed, took it upon himself to reaffirm the values and principles which, he recognized, constitute the only sound basis for the living of a human life with dignity and purpose or for the formation of a civilization worthy of the name.”
—Philip Sherrard, author of Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition

“Apart from his amazing flair for expounding pure metaphysical doctrine and his critical acuteness when dealing with the errors of the modern world, Guénon (pbuh) displayed a remarkable insight into things of a cosmological order. . . . He all along stressed the need, side by side with a theoretical grasp of any given doctrine, for its concrete—one can also say its ontological—realization failing which one cannot properly speak of knowledge.”
—Marco Pallis, author of A Buddhist Spectrum

“Guénon’s (pbuh) mission was two-fold: to reveal the metaphysical roots of the ‘crisis of the modern world’ and to explain the ideas behind the authentic and esoteric teachings that still [remain] alive.”
—Harry Oldmeadow, author of Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy

[Anonymous No.14653579]

What did Guenon say about art? I know the quote about modern music from his correspondences with Evola, but did he have anything else to say on the matter?

[Anonymous No.14653588]

>>14653579
I remember him (pbuh) commenting somewhere on the anonimity of true traditional art and that the increasing focus on 'originality' and 'individuality' of the artist is a recent sign of profane perversion. Maybe a /lit-certified Guénon (pbuh) scholar knows more about his (pbuh) position.

[Anonymous No.14653598]

>>14653579
>I know the quote about modern music from his correspondences with Evola,
I have yet to see the actual letter it came from, I'm pretty sure it was fake although whoever wrote it did a good job of imitating his style of writing.

[Anonymous No.14654002]

>>14653259
based thread... (pbuh)

[Anonymous No.14654906]

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>>14654002
Supra-based.

[Anonymous No.14654928]

>>14653268
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>>14654906
hey bro(s), I would like to ask a question. Who exactly is Wahid Azal?

[Anonymous No.14654987]

how long will guenonfag keep up this charade I wonder? 2 years and no one apart from himself has read him (its even doubtful if he's read him at all). All he does now is create these cringey threads with a separate tripcode IP (notice how he only makes one or two posts) and then removes it when he continues bumping from multiple IPs with 'based haha refuted lol (pbuh) xD haha' and the same old copy pastas he's saved up on notepad.

[Anonymous No.14655054]

Would Scientology be considered to have Absolute Truth? How long until something is perennial?

[Anonymous No.14655058]

>>14655054
Muhammad is seal of the prophets.

[Anonymous No.14655310]

>>14654987
>no one apart from himself has read him
I guarantee with absolute certainty that at least two people have read him.
>>14655058
>>14654906
Based.

[Anonymous No.14655330]

>>14655054
>Would a form of protestantism literally with "Science" in its name be considered to have Absolute Truth?
take a wild guess...

[Anonymous No.14655465]

>>14654987
I read almost half of Guenon(pbuh)'s wiki page intro. Is this enough?

[Anonymous No.14655533]

>>14655465
No it’s not enough Wahid Azal, read more of him

[Anonymous No.14655766]

>>14654987
>NOOOOO YOU CAN'T KEEP MAKING GUENON (PBUH) THREADS!! I'VE DONE EVERYTHING TO STOP THESE THREADS, I'VE MADE COUNTLESS SCREENCAPS AND CAREFULLY ASSEMBELED IMAGES EXPOSING GUENONFAG, SO MANY HOURS HUNTING THROUGH THE ARCHIVES, I EVEN DOXXED SOME RANDOM SWEDE, IT CAN'T HAVE BEEN ALL FOR NOTHING!?! NO NO NO I CAN'T ACCEPT THAT, IT HAD TO MEAN SOMETHING!!! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO GET SCARED OFF FROM POSTING HIM ANYMORE, WHY DIDNT IT WORK!?!! DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT!! YOU HAVE TO STOP POSTING GUENON (PBUH) I BEG OF YOU! NOOOO! YOU CAN'T JUST RESPOND WITH MEMES MOCKING ME WHEN I POST MY BAIT AND SCREENCAPS!! NOOOO IT ALL HAS TO BE THE SAME PERSON, NOOOOO THERE CAN'T BE MANY REGULAR GUENON (PBUH) POSTERS, NOOOO PLEASE TELL ME I WASN'T PLAYING WHACK A MOLE FOR TWO YEARS FRUITLESSLY CHASING AFTER AND TRYING TO DOX A DOZEN DIFFERENT GUENON (PBUH) MEMERS AND POSTERS NONE OF WHOM CARED IN THE SLIGHTEST, NOOOOOO!! PLEASE TELL ME THAT I HAVNT WASTED COUNTLESS HOURS!!! NOOOOOO! *CRAPS PANTS* NOOOOOO MOMMMYYY!!?! NOOOOOOO!!

[Anonymous No.14655774]

Convince me non-dualist metaphysics like Shankara's Vedanta or Ibn Arabi's akbarian non-dualism is better than Thomist metaphysics.

I don't hate non-dualism, I just find it overrated and I'm not convinced it can really be described properly with words.

Put it another way, what's wrong with simply being a Thomist?

[Anonymous No.14655793]

>>14655766
lmao its nice to know that these images still haunt you

[cunt No.14655796]

>>14655793
And people shit on me for calling out idealists baka

[Anonymous No.14655797]

>>14655766
simply based

[Anonymous No.14655798]

>>14655766
>NOOOO IT ALL HAS TO BE THE SAME PERSON, NOOOOO THERE CAN'T BE MANY REGULAR GUENON (PBUH) POSTERS
What are the odds that all these people have suddenly used the exact same posting patterns, replied to each other with 'based' and only recently used (pbuh) for the same people in unison?

[Anonymous No.14655801]

>>14655774
>I'm not convinced it can really be described properly with words
Why would you assume it to be describable with words? Not even a non-dualist, but this seems like a very retarded standard to hold.

[Anonymous No.14655804]

>>14655798
>>all these people
>he does not see beyond all duality
OH NO NO NO

[Anonymous No.14655809]

>>14653259
This Guenon renaissance is simultaneously the most based and cringe thing I've seen on this board since I started coming here.

[Anonymous No.14655813]

>>14655796
fixed your image >>14654002

[Anonymous No.14655816]

>>14655804
I like how you've recently embraced the monkey persona to avoid the 'haha guenon means monkey' meme via ironic self deprecation, it really ticked you off didn't it?

[Anonymous No.14655822]

will guenonfag kill himself after this? He can't recover

[Anonymous No.14655831]

>>14655801
Because guys like Guenon, Ibn Arabi, Shankara wrote a ton of books on the topic trying to explain how the One *is* both Being and non-Being.

[Anonymous No.14655834]

>>14655816
>gave his elegant visage and blessed name to create a highly traditionalistic animal having an important symbolic place in all of the traditions of the world
>as above, there are based Guenonian-Jivanmuktis, so below there are Guenon-like monkeys
Based!

[Anonymous No.14655847]

>>14655831
From what little I have read on this, they pretty much admit that no words can fully describe non-duality in the sense you seem to want them to. The aphorisms and rational discourse they use are merely meant as a supplement for someone on the path to realizing it.

[Anonymous No.14655859]

>>14655766
B A S É

[guenonposter !!ZaMilZJb7x4 No.14655860]

>>14655822
The Guenon(pbuh) Renaissance has only begun.

[cunt No.14655903]

>>14655859
I have to admit that quote is based

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[Anonymous No.14655928]

>>14655847
So what's the disadvantage of adhering to an orthodox Thomist metaphysics, rather than non-dualism?

Guenon says that Aquinas didn't go far enough into the realm of non-Being but I honestly don't see what advantages this would have.

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[Anonymous No.14655952]

>>14655928
>advantages
Anglo detected. Take you utilitarianism and get out.

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[Anonymous No.14655989]

>>14655928
>what's the disadvantage
thomist metaphyics would just ultimatelly be "not real" under a non-dualist view.
the situation is unironically quite similar to pic related.

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[Anonymous No.14656004]

>>14653259
Those interested in Julius Evola, I highly recommend Guénon(pbuh)

Rene Guénon - The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times

>This book analyses the metaphysical roots of the crisis of this age, explaining the causes of the present condition to lie in modern civilization's rebellion against tradition -- not just one tradition, but the recurring and perennial tradition of every premodern civilization. The author's penetrating insight into modern science and the results of its monopoly over our age is fascinating. His critique of modernity is grounded in the traditional religious view which views human temporal existence not as an evolution, but a degression culminating in the "signs of the hour" and the emergence of the dajjal or the anti-christ (not necessarily understood in religious sense).

Rene Guénon - The Crisis of the Modern World
>Guenon begins by noting that the modern world has brought about a crisis, conceived by many in terms of apocalypse and the "end times" (the coming dark age of the Kali Yuga in terms of Hindu cyclical cosmology), which can only be resolved by a return of the West to the traditional outlook. Taking off from what he had written earlier in a book entitled _East and West_, Guenon notes that the worldviews of West and East are profoundly different from each other, the East maintaining its traditions, while the West creeps towards degeneracy in the form of modernism and materialism

Recommended reads for the Evola fanboys.

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[Anonymous No.14656108]

>>14655952
>>14655989
Stop coping and answer the question. Guenon thinks Aquinas needed to go farther but I don't see the point. I can't see the real argument in it, it's really just "Non-dualism is better. To become a non-dualist you need to go further than Aquinas did into the realm of the non-Being (which I'm totally not making into a thing, and thus Being ; ) )"

If you can't explain why oriental metaphysics are better and make a difference in your life then why shill Guenon 24/7?

[Anonymous No.14656162]

>>14656108
Metaphysics is not supposed to be "useful", you filthy angl*id. It's about the search for truth, something for which humans have an inborn desire for, according to Aristotle, while beasts and angl*ids don't.

[Anonymous No.14656206]

Are there any Traditionalists that wrote about Shinto?

[Anonymous No.14656221]

>>14656206
My diary desu

[Anonymous No.14656237]

>>14656162
So you have no argument for the superiority of non-dualism over Thomism? Also, I'm literally french.

[Anonymous No.14656261]

>>14656206
As far as i have seen, traditionalists usually disregard japanese and chinese culture because it's not the tradition they want to focus on. Although, at the same time, they do have an obsession with the pajeets because of muh cast system. It's really retarded, desu.

[Anonymous No.14656283]

Shankara has been considered a crypto-buddhist for over a thousand years, not only by his enemies but by advaitins themselves.

[Anonymous No.14656288]

>>14656261
>chinese
Actually Guenon wrote about Taoism and was initiated IIRC. The problem with Shinto is the lack of a speculative metaphysical textual or at least oral tradition that we know of. It's the same problem with Norse and Germanic traditions. We have the Eddas which are the mythologies, but we know nothing about doctrine. But you don't say that hurr durr they wuz racist towards Northern European do you?

[Anonymous No.14656289]

Reminder that this posted was outed as a major Guenon spammer on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.14656319]

>>14656261
>Chinese tradition
>Japanese anime religion
Same shit, different label.

[Anonymous No.14656385]

>>14656206
I believe Frithjoth "the Bodhisattva of Booty" Schuon writes about Shinto in "Language of the Self" which is on lib-geb

[Anonymous No.14656396]

>>14656385
careful with schuon, he's got some unfortunate associations

>On October 11th 1991, Frithjof Schuon, the leader of an international religious order, was indicted on the felony charge of child molestation. committed under "cult pressure and influence". The indictment, passed down by a five member Grand Jury, headed by Lucy Cherbas, stated:
>"that Frithjof Schuon... did perform fondling or touching [on three girls] 15 years of age, 14 years of age and 13 years of age, respectively, with the intent to arouse or satisfy sexual desires of Frithjof Schuon, in violation of I.C. 35-42 43. [And that] said persons were compelled to submit to touching by force or imminent threat of force, to wit: by undue cult influences and cult pressures, in violation of 35-42-4-8."

>Jesus Garcia Varela, a high ranking inner circle member of the cult, had been investigated by the Louisville Police in 1991 for nude photos of his 2 young daughters. He escaped prosecution of this episode by claiming that it was a common practice in Spain to visually record a girl's puberty.

>Michael Fitzgerald's son was present at the Gatherings. The boy, then perhaps 14, had been made to watch his mother and her sister, Jennifer Casey, dance nude for Schuon at one of the Gatherings.

[Anonymous No.14656421]

>>14656206
I will write on it anon do not worry.

[Anonymous No.14656427]

>>14656108
Have you ever tried reading any Shankaracharya or Ibn Arabi? Maybe you should just try reading them yourself to make up your own mind instead of demanding that other people convince you of the answer

[Anonymous No.14656438]

>>14656427
>reading a cryptobuddhist

[Anonymous No.14656472]

>>14653339
Perennialists are hyper masculine. However, they see feats of strength worthy of celebration when conducted in a manner that upholds order. Their ideal athlete would be a well read warrior, a true Kshatriya, as opposed to some literal 78 iq brute like Cassius Clay being adored by the masses

[cunt No.14656487]

>>14656206
>Shinto
are you Japaneses

[Anonymous No.14656558]

>>14656013
All of Kant’s ideas sucked dick though

[cunt No.14656573]

>>14656558
>muh Rene

[Anonymous No.14656580]

>>14656573
I’m not even a Guenon fan; Kant was just an assclown.

[Anonymous No.14657007]

>>14656438
Shankaracharya btfo Buddhism in his writings

[Anonymous No.14657125]

>>14656013
Ok, I'll bite. Where is a good place to start with Kant?

[Anonymous No.14657191]

>>14656427
I've read Ibn Arabi. He gets tiring after a while. Apparently Guenon didn't read much of him.

[Anonymous No.14657445]

>>14657191
Well, then I recommend reading some Shankaracharya, who is a much better read IMO (although I still enjoy Arabi) insofar as his writing is much more logical and lucid, and he doesn't have to encode the doctrine he is writing about for fear of being executed by his coreligionists.

This pdf has 4 of Shankaracharya's Upanishad commentaries, if you read through the whole pdf it should become much more clear to you why Guenon takes the position that he does.

https://estudantedavedanta.net/Eight-Upanisads-Vol-1.pdf

[Anonymous No.14657524]

>>14653259
>Guenon(pbuh)
guenon would cringe at this blasphemy

[Anonymous No.14657671]

>>14657445
WHY should I read him instead of reading more Aquinas? I've seen you post the same walls of text every day. Tell me WHY I should care about the allegedly superior non-dualism metaphysics.

Also, I like what I know about Ramajuna.

[Anonymous No.14657849]

>>14657671
>It has been taught for a long time that there are things which are not discussed ; one must limit oneself to presenting the doctrine as it is, for those who are able to understand it, and this is what we try to do to the extent of our capacities. To the one who truly seeks knowledge, we must never refuse to provide the clarifications for which he asks, if it is possible to supply them to him, that is to say, if they do not concern something which is absolutely inexpressible ; but if someone turns up with a critical and arguing attitude, “the doors of knowledge must be closed before him” ; besides, what would be the use of explaining something to someone who does not want to understand?

- Rene Guenon (pbuh), "REGARDING HINDU METAPHYSICS: A NECESSARY RECTIFICATION", published in L’Idealismo Realistico

[Anonymous No.14657874]

>>14657849
Didn't he spill the beans in The Multiple States of Being?

[Anonymous No.14657882]

>>14657849
Also, doesn't Shankara suggest you only need to read the texts/commentaries and you don't need to actually do the rites?

[Anonymous No.14657937]

>>14656206
There really isn’t much about Shintoism. It was mostly the cult religion of the lower classes historically while the more high minded metaphysical and philosophical tradition was largely dominated by buhdism. It was rehabilitated and gained more focus in the late 1800’s though due to rising nationalism and the intelligencia wanting something that was more purely “Japanese”. I would recommend puck related for info.

[Anonymous No.14657972]

>>14657882
That’s not his position. You can do the rites to earn stuff from the gods and good karma, but these are impairment and don’t lead to moksha.

Rituals -> stuff
Meditations -> liberation

[Anonymous No.14657983]

>>14657972
>good karma
To reincarnate in a good social status or even as a god
>impairment
Impermanent

[Anonymous No.14658035]

>>14657972
I mean, does Shankara think you need a guide?

[Anonymous No.14658050]

>>14658035
Why yes. A guru. He’s not a Buddhist anarchist.

[Anonymous No.14658114]

>>14657849
>How dare you just not accept what I am saying as truth set in stone?
That is legitimately pathetic.

[Anonymous No.14658698]

>>14653539
sick quotes bruh

[Anonymous No.14658793]

>>14653579
My guess, he'd consider the symbolist, surrealist, expressionist movements as good, no? Considering he likes symbolism.

[Anonymous No.14658908]

>>14658114
I gave him the resource to find the answer to the question he wants answered if he wants to go down that road, I can't go down that road for him but only he can

[Anonymous No.14659204]

>>14658908
>I gave him the resource to find the answer to the question he wants answered if he wants to go down that road, I can't go down that road for him but only he can
That is not what that french monkey is saying.
He is flat out stating that only he and those like him have the only valid answer, and refusing to uncritically accept it means that you should be kicked out.

[Anonymous No.14660487]

based Rene Guenon (pbuh) bump

[Anonymous No.14660608]

>>14659204
>He is flat out stating that only he and those like him have the only valid answer, and refusing to uncritically accept it means that you should be kicked out.
Source? can you cite the passage where he writes that? It sounds like a massive strawman. If there is such a 'group' it is simply the people who have both the patience and curiosity to do a deep study of the relevant texts, admittance into it or lack thereof into it comes down to one's own initiative and is not the fault of exclusion by anyone else. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but the opinion on such a matter by someone who hasn't read through the relevant texts is useless.

[Anonymous No.14660639]

>>14655996
Looks like a nice young boy.
Sincerity and cringe are brothers, and hold close company. One should be grateful for the sincerity of youth, and value it's cringe in turn.

[Anonymous No.14660775]

>>14653259
Guenon is a traitor to the West. Plain and simple. I wish I could travel back in time so I can refute him then hang him by a rope.

[Anonymous No.14660827]

>>14660775
Your deluded fantasies were retroactively refuted by Guenon (pbuh) who also among many other glorious achievements showed how the west can be saved from its present catastrophe.

[Anonymous No.14660842]

>>14660827
>showed how the west can be saved from its present catastrophe
you mean esoteric Hitlerism right? not some sandnigger sufi bullshit

[Anonymous No.14660879]

>>14653259
What if I don't believe in a primordial tradition? How will you convince me?

[Anonymous No.14660941]

Rene Guenon is a piece of shit
This anon >>14660775 gets it

[Anonymous No.14660982]

>>14660879
By showing how successful it was as a movement: >>14656396

[Anonymous No.14661030]

>>14654928

Wahid Azal is a chronically online lunatic. He used to be a Baha'i and then had some falling out with them and was spurned by the Maryamis from what I know in the 90's. Now he has spent twenty years online harassing Baha'is and traditionalists. He claimed to have some sort of special position with God and was supposed to resurrect the Babi religion that all but died out like in the late 1800's. Now he runs his own far-left Evola/Corbin/Guenon inspired Azali Babi Ayahausca syncretic Sufi order which consisted of him and his wife who died recently and rabidly hates white people despite being Iranian and apparently living in Germany. It's all very hard to keep up with and no, none of this makes any lick of sense.

https://4threvolutionarywar.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/what-if-god-is-a-troll-the-mendacity-of-n-wahid-azal/

[Anonymous No.14661167]

>>14660639
pedo

[Anonymous No.14661555]

>>14660842
>esoteric Hitlerism
such a wording has been retroactively refuted by Guenon (pbuh). perhaps you mean "Hitleric esoterism", which has also been refuted by Guenon (pbuh) in the same writing.

[Anonymous No.14661560]

>>14660982
>successful
>movement
retroactively btfo notions.

[Anonymous No.14661769]

What did Guénon think of women?

[Anonymous No.14661782]

>>14657671
>WHY
You shouldn't.
>Also, I like what I know about Ramajuna.
That's fine. The bluepill will suffice for you for the time being.

[Anonymous No.14661786]

Did Guenon write anything on Yoga?

[Anonymous No.14661791]

>>14661769
He thought that they should be veiled and occasionally beaten.
He also thought that you could have more than one if you could afford it.

[Anonymous No.14661796]

>>14661786
>Tantra
Isn't that about using coom for lower-tier practices like magic? Also,
>Julius Evola (a non-initiate) writing on the "secret way"

[Anonymous No.14661804]

>>14661560
>>14661769
he cute!

[Anonymous No.14661805]

>>14661796
this is evolas coom work

[Anonymous No.14661815]

>>14661805
What is the Evolan view on homosexuality and wasting one's seed?

[Anonymous No.14661859]

>>14661815
kill with fire

[Anonymous No.14661865]

>>14661859
we already knew that... does he have anything interesting to say on why precisely it is so degenerate and harmful?

[Anonymous No.14661872]

>>14661865
Because it's gay.

Jk I never read him.

[Anonymous No.14661875]

>>14661865
read the book

[Anonymous No.14661885]

>>14661875
No... I do not trust it to not be satanic so it's best if I keep away from it.

[Anonymous No.14662132]

>>14653259
>Rene Guenon(pbuh) General
Based...

[Anonymous No.14662524]

Is there a collection of Shankara quotes utterly destroying and refuting Buddhist doctrine? I have a few classmates who are into Westernized Buddhism and I want to destroy their worldview using nothing but Shankara quotes. Might record the epic debates and put them onto YouTube if it turns out to be fun.

[Anonymous No.14662578]

>>14662524

[Anonymous No.14662698]

>>14662524
This image >>14662578 is from Shankara's commentary on the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Pic related is a more lengthy refutation of Buddhist doctrines from Shankara's Brahma Sutra commentary. It was too long to compile into one image and so I had to make two separate images.

[Anonymous No.14662704]

>>14662698
part 2

[Anonymous No.14662851]

>>14662704
>>14662698
>>14662578
And here is a summary of some of these arguments from a book by a scholar

[Anonymous No.14662882]

>>14661796
no that's low level tantra shit. real tantra is the ultimate NoFap anti-coomer. Basically the point is to not coom while unleashing female orgasms.

[Anonymous No.14662893]

>>14661815
Evola said Homosexuals are utterly useless to society

[Anonymous No.14662931]

alright you bastards, I just bought the following
>Introduction to Hindu Studies
>Upanishads
>The Mahabharata
>Ramayana
>Bhakti Yoga: Tales and Teachings from the Bhagavata Purana
>Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
>Brahma Sutra Bhasya Of Shankaracharya

What's the best reading order here?

[Anonymous No.14662985]

>>14662931
Based, I hope you enjoy them
>What's the best reading order here?
for the metaphysical/philosophical works:
1) Introduction to Hindu Studies
2) Upanishads
3) Yoga Sutras
4) Bhakti Yoga: Tales and Teachings from the Bhagavata Purana
5) Brahma Sutra Bhasya of Shankaracharya

The Mahabharata and Ramayana are literary epics and can be read at any point after Introduction to Hindu Studies. Shankaracharya's Brahma Sutra Bhasya is fairly advanced and lengthy, and so it is best read only after one has read all of the primary Upanishads which the Brahma Sutras and his bhasya reference countless times, in his Brahma Sutra Bhasya he cites the Chandogya Upanishad alone 810 times for example.

[Anonymous No.14663001]

>>14662985
Ok thanks anon, I have a follow up question. Where should I slip in some additional Guenon? Such as Studies in Hinduism?

[Anonymous No.14663130]

>>14663001
I enjoyed reading Studies in Hinduism but it's just a bunch of random essays by him on different ideas in Hinduism, you can skip it and read it later as there is nothing that's super important in it IMO. Guenon's book 'Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta' is a good introduction to the metaphysical concepts in the writings of Shankaracharya, It would probably be helpful to read it before his Brahma Sutra Bhasya, although I would consider Shankaracharya's Upanishad commentaries to be a better preparation for reading the Brahma Sutra Bhaysa then any book by Guenon or anyone else, if you don't want to read through all of his 10 or 11 Upanishad commentaries first though then reading Guenon's book and a modern translation of the Upanishad with notes by an academic first before the Brahma Sutra Bhasya should suffice

[Anonymous No.14663139]

>>14663130
ok good stuff thanks. I will see you back in a Guenon thread in about a month

[Anonymous No.14663155]

>>14662931
supra-based.

[Anonymous No.14663268]

"The unquestioned authority of the Vedas;
the belief in a world-creator;
the quest for purification through ritual bathing;
the arrogant division into castes;
the practice of mortification to atone for sin—
these five are the marks of the crass stupidity of witless men." - Dharmakirti

[Anonymous No.14663333]

>>14663268
>these five are the marks of the crass stupidity of witless men." - Dharmakirti
It's ironic that Dharmakirti would accuse others of being witless when Dharmakirti's own ideas were completely BTFO by Shankaracharya for being illogical and contradictory to our actual experience, the second half of this >>14662851 image provides a summary of how and why Shankaracharya btfo Dharmakirti if you'd like to read about it. Under the Vijnanavada Buddhism section of that picture which begins about halfway down you'll find a refutation of Dharmakirti.

[Anonymous No.14663337]

>>14655943
Wtf

[Anonymous No.14663353]

>>14663333
Shankara stole 90% of his ideas from Buddhism, see >>14655793

[Anonymous No.14663360]

>>14663353
Wrong, all of those notions are already in the Upanishads, those images just ignore and don't mention those verses which talk about them of which there are dozens

[Anonymous No.14663367]

>>14663333
based quads of retroactive refutation

[Anonymous No.14663377]

>>14663333
Basé

[Anonymous No.14663379]

>>14663360
No, those images cite scholars and non-Advaita (i.e. by far the majority of) Hindus to the effect that Advaita's interpretations of the Upanishads are in fact later Mahayana interpretations, projected onto the Upanishads.

The only people who think those interpretations are "already in" the Upanishads are the most brainwashed midwit Advaitins, but they are a small minority of mostly westernized Hindus. Even many Advaitins acknowledge the huge similarities to Mahayana buddhism. Including several who came right after Shankara.

[Anonymous No.14663398]

>>14663379
Forgot to post pic. It's been a running joke for a thousand years that the Advaita crowd are cryptobuddhists, and the best kind of joke too because it's 100% true. After hundreds of years of other Hindus laughing at Advaitins for being cryptobuddhists, as soon as modern scholarship arose, it came to the same conclusions too. Even within India.

The only people who still care are internet mystics like that theosophist guenonfag.

[Anonymous No.14663413]

Isn't Guenon just a popularize to traditional ideas like a pop science writer? Why should I read him, not just the traditional writers themselves that he recommends?

[Anonymous No.14663435]

>>14663398
>Forgot to post pic.
If you hadn't remembered and never posted it you would have saved yourself from embarrassment because the image you posted was retroactively refuted

[Anonymous No.14663454]

>>14663413
Guenon is a neovedantist, he can be worth reading if you want a light introduction to that westernized worldview of the Vedas, similar to Vivekananda. It's quite dated now however, it was basically the Indian national revival movements wanting to present Indian religion to the world as a great and coherent philosophical tradition.

It's just a shame that neovedantists picked the Advaita aspect of Hinduism, simply because it's the one Westerners most admired, alongside Buddhism. Westerners only admired it because it was protestant-like in its impersonalism & neoplatonic seeming in its metaphysics. That's why Guenon liked it too, he was a child of the fin de siecle who wanted to see the whole world as following the same "perennialist" metaphysics in different forms. Just the same old ideas Schleiermacher and everybody else had.

You should read the sources themselves definitely, but you should be aware there are more than you can read in a lifetime. That's why commentaries and summaries are necessary. Try reading a decent history of Indian philosophy, ideally a few of them, and getting a sense of the history of their development. An anon in this thread >>14649817 is arguing with the neovedanta/theosophy cultist about whether advaita is "the only correct interpretation of the vedas" so it might be a good place to get an introduction to how thorny these issues can be. Especially since many of the people writing on them are of course religious believers.

>>14663435
I told you, the images I'm posting are referring to scholars and other Hindu interpretations. If people want to read your Advaita dogma interpretations, which amount to "Advaita is right because its interpretations are right because Advaita interprets them as right" then they can do whatever they want. I only want to talk to you if you can do something other than repeating how right you are, you're acting like a bible-thumper.

[Anonymous No.14663463]

>>14663454
Forgot to describe the image I posted. That's Frithjof Schuon (described here >>14656396). He forced his followers to draw him naked and brush up against his penis, including children. He's often considered Guenon's principal follower or even successor, and his own student, Hossein Seyyed Nasr, is often considered the current "leader" or "head" of the traditionalist movement.

These are the people you'll be associating with if you get deeply into Guenon. Just be aware of that. They're theosophists with different leaders, and they excuse child predator behavior because it's okay when their guru does it.

[Anonymous No.14663484]

>>14663413
Guenon makes a point of saying that he doesn’t expound nothing new. He is a mere transmitter of traditional knowledge, a popularizer like you said. So if you already know the sources, by all means, skip the intermediary. Keep in mind that he wrote in an era without internet, where the mass of oriental texts was still beginning to be translated. You didn’t have access to them as you do now, let alone bona fide masters from the east itself. And the few translations that were available were being distorted by positivist-minded orientalists on the one hand and occultists and theosophists on the other. So his job was to set things straight. Is the job done? Well, there are still many new age charlatans and “critical” skeptic academics handling and middle-manning eastern philosophy to the western world to this day, many charlatan eastern gurus even, there is still much ignorance and bigotry concerning other religions, etc., so I say Guenon is still relevant.

[Anonymous No.14663495]

>>14663413
>Why should I read him, not just the traditional writers themselves that he recommends?
It's good that you are asking this question because it seems that I sometimes see people get too hung up on them and never read much of the source material which often goes way deeper into metaphysics etc than Guenon et al ever do in their books. I would say that Guenon and the other traditionalists have interesting and insightful things to say about the present world, and also that just reading a few of their books can often be a good introduction to and a springboard for getting deep into the writings of the various traditions. Things like reading a few of Guenon's books before studying Hinduism, reading Burckheart before reading Sufi stuff, reading Borella before the Christian metaphysicians and mystics medieval era and antiquity, and so on.

[Anonymous No.14663502]

>>14663484
Guenon was a product of the same occult and theosophy movements. He thought Hinduism was the same as Islam and dabbled in occultism and esotericism for years. He was friends with Mircea Eliade and Julius Evola, huge occult dabblers, and accused Eliade of stealing his ideas.

The proof is in the pudding. What Hindus in India would recognize their traditions in Guenon's reading of the Vedas? Barely any, only westernized elites who are more European than Indian. They would see him as a dangerous heretic and a Muslim enemy (he converted to Islam). To them he is the most typical Westerner, trying to come in and tell Indians what their "true" tradition is. Surprise, it's apparently Islam and neoplatonism!

[Anonymous No.14663519]

>>14663502
Oh boy. The “Guenon was an occult theosophist” poster. You’re a Christian right? What do you care?

[Anonymous No.14663531]

>>14663519
It's strange that you think you have a rogue's gallery of enemies on /lit/. This is what killed your traditionalism threads in the first place, you perceive everyone who criticizes traditionalism as some kind of nefarious enemy. It's possible to both admire and criticize something, in order to actually understand it.

Stop trying to confront people who disagree with you by slotting them into categories. Not even for my sake, but for your own. I've seen you obsess over "are you that Whitehead poster?? ARE YOU???" for months and so on. Chill out.

[Anonymous No.14663549]

Better question would be, if Perennialism is Advaita Vedanta, why not just practice Advaita Vedanta?
>Oh but you should pretend to practice an orthodox religion adapted to the place where you were born
That may have made sense back in the day, but globalization has thrown that out of the window. We have Hindus living in the USA, Americans living in China, which is a communist atheist state, Europe is barely Christian anymore, etc. everything is fucked up. Why not assume Advaita Vedanta regardless of the religion you were born into?

[Anonymous No.14663556]

>>14663531
>I've seen you obsess over "are you that Whitehead poster?? ARE YOU???" for months and so on. Chill out.
Funny thing you just did the thing you accused me of doing. I have no idea what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous No.14663557]

>>14663502
>evola
>occult dabbler
Do you get all your information from Wikipedia?

[Anonymous No.14663560]

>>14663549
Because it's cryptobuddhism and has very little to do with real Hinduism or the Vedas. See >>14656283

>>14663556
That is a fair criticism, I suppose I did assume you were the guy who does that. No I'm not Christian, to answer your question.

>>14663557
I like Evola. But he was an occult dabbler for sure.

[Anonymous No.14663660]

>>14663549
>Better question would be, if Perennialism is Advaita Vedanta, why not just practice Advaita Vedanta?
Because they can't. Traditional Advaita is an even stricter form of ascetic renunciation than Buddhist asceticism. Shankara is really clear on that you have to become a sannyasin; with all its many ascetic rules, and you need a actual guru for moksha.

All these Traditionalists on /lit/ are actually followers of Neo-Advaita which is not even 100 years old. So much for tradition.

They picked Advaita(crypto-Buddhism) over Buddhism because they read Guenon and Guenon did not understand Buddhism. Interestingly enough Buddhism actually believes a layman can reach the Deathless.

[Anonymous No.14663692]

>>14663549
Perennialism is buffet-style spiritual dabbling. Despite it's own self-conception, it's ironically an outworking of Western rationalism wherein there begins a metaphysical project that then seeks to interpret various traditions in terms of that project and wherever incompatibilities arise with those traditions those incompatibilities are then arbitrarily dismissed as 'exoteric' despite what the those traditions actually teach and believe. Guenon reading Sufism through Hinduism through Hellenism is Western through and through.

[Anonymous No.14663749]

>>14663660
>>14663560
How do you feel about Evola's readings of tantrism and Buddhism? I talked to a specialist recently who told me Evola is not even close but still interesting as its own thing

[Anonymous No.14663750]

>>14663549
>if Perennialism is Advaita Vedanta, why not just practice Advaita Vedanta?
Because according to how it is traditionally practiced, one is supposed to give up all of one's possessions and live the rest of one's life as a monk in order to attain liberation, as is described in the Upanishads; some Hindus wait until old age until after having a family to do so. If you travel to India at any point you are free to do this though, the actual monastic orders like the Dashnami Sampradaya which trace their founding to Shankara admit anyone willing to become a monk regardless of nationality, caste etc.

For people who don't want to become a monk, very similar metaphysical teachings that point to the same truth are found in wide range of other traditions according to the Traditionalists such as certain other Hindu schools, Sufism, Taoism, some Mahayana, Neoplatonism, and certain Christian esoterism. Not all of these have actual traditions with long histories going back which you can personally join and be instructed in though. The actual orders going back many hundreds of years which a westerner can join and be instructed in the esoteric metaphysical teachings are mostly Sufism, Mahayana (some Mahayana is kinda garbage though watch out!), and the non-Advaita but still nevertheless non-dual Hindu schools like Vishishtadvaita and Shaivite schools like Lingayatism. With Christianity there is the teaching of Heychasm in Eastern Orthodox hermitages etc but to get deep into that you would probably have to become a sort of monk anyway.

>>14663660
>All these Traditionalists on /lit/ are actually followers of Neo-Advaita which is not even 100 years old. So much for tradition.
Lol have you even read Guenon ? He carefully distinguishes his ideas from NeoVedanta/NeoAdvaita and btfos the latter.

[Anonymous No.14663779]

>>14663750
>He carefully distinguishes his ideas from NeoVedanta/NeoAdvaita and btfos the latter.
In which book?

[Anonymous No.14663797]

>>14663750
>shankara fanboys (minority) say they "btfo" buddhism, scholars and practicing hindus say shankara was crypto-buddhist
>guenon fanboys (internet LARPers) say guenon "btfo" neovedanta, scholars and practicing hindus say he was still neovedantist

Hmmm

[Anonymous No.14663813]

>>14663779
In 'Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines' he has a chapter on NeoVedanta where he explains the problems with it and where it differs from traditional Advaita

[Anonymous No.14663837]

>>14653259
>/RG/ Rene Guenon(pbuh) General guenonposter !!ZaMilZJb7x4

This is getting out of hand

[Anonymous No.14663899]

>>14663797
>they "btfo" buddhism
are you trying to say that Buddhism wasn't btfo? lol goodluck with that, just about every major Indian school of it has been refuted

[Anonymous No.14663919]

>>14663899
See >>14656283

You don't "btfo" something by plagiarizing its entire framework, which the vast majority of Hindus think Advaita did to Buddhism. Hence them calling Advaita cryptobuddhist.

[Anonymous No.14663943]

>>14663919
>You don't "btfo" something by plagiarizing its entire framework,
That's not what they did, in that picture it explains how all the major schools of Indian have illogical ideas that don't make any sense when subjected to critical scrutiny. Advaita doesn't accept any of those dumb ideas held by Buddhism which are explained to be illogical, but rather sources it's ideas from the Upanishads. Other schools calling them crypto-Buddhist is just a cope by later Hindu schools because all the major Upanishads dating from before and after Buddha all talk about maya, illusion, ignorance, monasticism and other ostensibly 'cryptop-buddhist' ideas which actually all predate Buddhism and were taken by it from Hinduism.

[Anonymous No.14663959]

>>14663943
This is Advaita dogma. As I said, most Hindus and essentially all scholars agree that Advaita is a massive ripoff of Mahayana Buddhism with Brahman added at the end. They even stole Buddhist monasticism.

Try reading the image before you react to it. Even leading Advaita followers agree about this.

[Anonymous No.14663973]

>>14663959
>most
>all advaita is crypto Buddhism posters post the same few anthros with a dildo up their ass about Muh brahmanical oppression which is what every mainstream branch of vedantic thought is to them

[Anonymous No.14663992]

>>14663973
Huh? Read the image you rambling schizo. The president of India said it.

[Anonymous No.14663997]

>>14663959
>They even stole Buddhist monasticism.
Monasticism is taught and praised in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad which predates Buddhism by 200-300 years

[Anonymous No.14664008]

>>14663992
>The president of India said it.
But Radnakrishnan himself was a NeoVedantist and therefore had a skewed version of Vedanta according to your logic, therefore we should reject or take with caution what he writes.

Radhakrishnan was one of the most prominent spokesmen of Neo-Vedanta.[33][34][35]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarvepalli_Radhakrishnan

[Anonymous No.14664020]

>>14664008
>only the advaitins I, random internet guy, approve of are real advaitins

Jesus.

>>14663997
Asceticism takes different historical forms. It is scholarly consensus that Advaita monasticism is essentially Buddhist monasticism transposed.

Why can't any of the Guenon theosophists read basic English?

[Anonymous No.14664062]

>>14655766
>yfw the guy being mocked in this post made half the posts in the thread again as usual
>yfw he is actually helping to spread enlightenment by keeping Traditionalism threads bumped with constant replies from his trolling and the replies to it, thereby causing everyone on /lit/ to become aware of and read about Guenon (pbuh), and then read his books
BASED

[Anonymous No.14664071]

>>14653415
fucking keek

[Anonymous No.14664147]

[Anonymous No.14664215]

Advaita - Based.
Buddhism - Cringe, but based if one realizes it is just a weaker form of Advaita.

[Anonymous No.14664273]

>>14653259
Fuck Rene Guenon. Damn frenchie

[Anonymous No.14664314]

>>14661815
Here you go, anon
http://www.juliusevola.net/excerpts/On_Homosexuality,_Platos_Inappropriateness_%26_Sex_at_the_Level_of_%22Mutual_Masturbation%22.html

[Anonymous No.14664334]

>>14664215
agreed

[Anonymous No.14664427]

>>14663692
Can you recommend any books or articles on this topic?

I've often recommended Raymond Schwab's Oriental Renaissance here but it's a big thick book and it stops in the mid-late 19th century. I'd like to see a continuation that extends to the perennialists. Said's Orientalism is garbage.

[Anonymous No.14664460]

>>14653259
Where should I start with Guenon, and where do I go from the beginning? Is there a list to follow, or should I just read chronologically?

[Anonymous No.14664474]

>>14664460
Thank you for asking, brother. Use the following chart crafted by the local Guénonian scholars.

[Anonymous No.14664515]

>>14664460
You should read him alongside other writers on the topic, ones who aren't simply his followers or enthusiastically approved by his followers.

This list >>14664474 is fairly good but I wouldn't recommend starting with the Hindu Doctrines unless you are specifically interested in his neovedanta brand of Hinduism. If you are more interested in him as a 20th century thinker in his own right, or you're interested in "traditionalism" but don't really give a shit about Hinduism or Sufism per se, it's easier to start right away with Crisis of the Modern World. I think his best work is Reign of Quantity.

Sedgwick's book is good too as a starting point if you're simply curious about the movement.

If you are interested in the neovedanta side of things, Radhakrishnan's sourcebook of Indian Philosophy is a classic of this "school" and is still used with reservations simply because of its convenient breadth. There are some digestible histories of Sanskrit literature that tend toward neovedanta/perennialism, but I think Dasgupta Surendranath's massive four-volume history is one of the best for getting an overview of the development of Indian thought that isn't credulous or biased in any one direction. A bit like Copleston's histories of Western philosophy, Dasgupta also has shorter, abstracted versions of his giant 4-volume history of Indian philosophy, but you may have to dig around for these.

[Anonymous No.14664666]

>>14663660
>>14663692
>>14663750
>>14663560
OH NO GUENONBROS WE GOT TOO COCKY!!!

Anyone got the Shankara crying Wojak? I looked all over the place for it.

[Anonymous No.14664734]

>>14664474
>Cracks in the Great Wall
I want to get into UFOs and Jacques Vallee so badly but I don't know where to start... Help me UFO/lit/!

[Anonymous No.14664758]

>>14664666
It's literally in the thread already. It appears all the guenonfags are gonna have to find a way to be able to post multiple crying Shankara wojaks now that they're starting to be chased off this board by the superior; in both intellect and beauty, Buddhists.

[Anonymous No.14664787]

>>14664758
Whoever made the crying Shankara wojak deserves my thanks for making me laugh, it's really well done

[Anonymous No.14664797]

>>14664787
grug Shankara is not so bad either

[Anonymous No.14664906]

Louis Massignon retroactively refuted Guenonian-Akbarian esoterism.

[Anonymous No.14664913]

>>14664906
Time to pack it up, lads. Stay off the opium and do something for others.

[Anonymous No.14664940]

>>14664906

[Anonymous No.14665064]

>>14664906
>>14664940
>Qarmathians' syncretist monism
>the Hellenistic syncretist vocabulary would dominate
>al-Hallaj as "anti-Qarmathian"
>unverifiable cosmogonies and "ideogonies"
>the Qarmathian discipline of the secret

holy shit, massignon sounds fucking amazing, what is this from?

[Anonymous No.14665315]

>>14653259
How did he not get executed for reading Hindu literature in Cairo?

[Anonymous No.14665359]

>>14663997
>which predates Buddhism by 200-300 years
are all scholars in agreement with this or is it just Olivelle?

[Anonymous No.14665404]

>>14665359
>>14663997
I just found this. Seems that Olivelle is by no means the sole authority on the subject.

In any case, Guenon's "asceticism is mentioned in a Veda therefore any subsequent monasticism in India is VEDIC" argument is retarded. Shankara implemented Buddhist monasticism with a Vedic twist in India.

[Anonymous No.14666046]

>>14655859
Based

[Anonymous No.14666160]

>>14653259
What was his view on 'bugmen'? Did he predict them and retroactively refute their doctrine?

[Anonymous No.14666278]

Where do I start with metaphysics?

[Anonymous No.14666544]

>>14663463
>These are the people you'll be associating with if you get deeply into Guenon. Just be aware of that. They're theosophists with different leaders, and they excuse child predator behavior because it's okay when their guru does it.

You don't have to be involved with the Maryamis to be a traditionalist. Based on what I've been told, it's a good idea to stay away from them as group for reasons other than what Schoun did or did not do, but what has gone on with this group in the past decade.

I think there's convincing evidence it's essentially a cult. So, you can read the books, but don't join them and separate the author from their actions. On an individual level, the ones I've known have been very nice people.

[Anonymous No.14666554]

pssst
(Evola is superior)

[Anonymous No.14667118]

>>14666278

https://estudantedavedanta.net/Eight-Upanisads-Vol-1.pdf
https://estudantedavedanta.net/Eight-Upanisads-vol2.pdf

[Anonymous No.14667540]

How the mighty have fallen!

I can’t believe the guenonbros were beaten so easily, and in their own thread. So this is the power of traditionalism?

[Anonymous No.14667576]

>>14664062
>and then read his books
Now if only this is actually happening...

[Anonymous No.14667588]

>>14665064
Massignon's Essay on the Origins of the Technical Language of Islamic Mysticism.

[Anonymous No.14667594]

>>14665315
No one knew about him. His estate keeps a lot of his unpublished work hidden.

Reminder that he was "initiated" into Sufism in 1911, and only started the LARPing part in the 1930s, and started doing rmental gymnastics about how you need an exoteric aspect of the tradition.

[Anonymous No.14667596]

>>14667540
Guenonfag actually can't refute attacks or debate his positions. All he can do is repost the same links and the same walls of text.

[Anonymous No.14667656]

>>14667596
Oh no no no

[Anonymous No.14667662]

Maybe Guenon was wrong...
Maybe Whitehead is the better philosopher...
Maybe Shankara did rip off Buddhism...

[Anonymous No.14667747]

>>14667540
>>14667596
>>14667662
rent-free

[Anonymous No.14667848]

I tried reading his Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines but I started feeling like a brainlet when he started talking about Metaphysics, it all went right over my head – how was I just supposed to take his vague explanation of what it was at face-value? I feel like there were some pre-requisite readings I should have done. Any recommendations so I can eventually understand the Traditionalism-pill?

[Anonymous No.14667891]

>>14667848
Introduction to the Study of the Buddhist Doctrines

[Anonymous No.14667935]

>>14667848
Try reading the Bhagavad-Gita and the Tao Te Ching
>>14667891
yikes and cringe-pilled

[Anonymous No.14669144]

>>14663454
ye, that's basically my take on the matter
btw, can you recommend any "decent history of Indian philosophy" ?

[Anonymous No.14669309]

>>14669144
Nooooo! But! But! But! Saint Guenooooon! Retroactively! Right?

How the mighty have fallen! Guenonposters have probably degraded him by turning him into a meme. Nice job!

[Anonymous No.14669401]

>>14667662
>Maybe Shankara did rip off Buddhism...
Buddhism did not exist before Shankaracharya (pbuh) gave them a coherent doctrine to copy and adapt to their needs, which they ended up perverting in the process due to their incompetence.
>>14669309
>Saint Guenooooon! (pbuh)
Based!

[Anonymous No.14669424]

>>14667594
>No one knew about him.
So did he hide his Sanskrit texts from others and did not speak about Advaita at all? How did he even obtain them without getting killed for supporting idol-worship?

[Anonymous No.14669463]

>muh No-Self
>muh Void
No; I Am whom wrote this post; So Self;
No; I Am whom read this post; So No-Void;

[Anonymous No.14669667]

>>14669463
Cringe

[Anonymous No.14669697]

>>14669667
Cringe, Nagarjuna was refuted, emptiness isn't true
>>14669463
based

[Anonymous No.14669720]

>>14669463
>>14669697
Based.

>>14669667
Cringe.

[Anonymous No.14669782]

>No-Self
>Void
Cringe.

>>14669667
Cringe.

>>14669463
>>14669697
>>14669720
Holy based...

[Anonymous No.14669821]

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

[Anonymous No.14669833]

>>14669463
>>14669667
>>14669697
>>14669720
>>14669782
>>14669821
based love you all

[Anonymous No.14669946]

It was interesting when he shat on the west, but all his metaphysics talk is so gay. Fuck India.

[Anonymous No.14670150]

>>14669463
>>14669697
>>14669720
>>14669782
>>14669833
Absolutely based...

[Anonymous No.14670249]

>>14669424
Who knows. His Egyptian wife was illiterate.

>>14669946
Crisis of the Modern World and The Reign of Quantity are the only must-reads of Guenon.

[Anonymous No.14670261]

>>14670249
>His Egyptian wife was illiterate.
Based... As all women should be.

[Anonymous No.14670262]

>>14670249
>His Egyptian wife was illiterate.
Based. Traditional wives should be deprived of education and income, and occasionally beaten for good measure. This is why Islam is so based.

[Anonymous No.14670270]

posting in a based thread

[Anonymous No.14670284]

More like GAYnon (penis be upon him)

[Anonymous No.14670326]

>>14670270
isn't that a quote from plato, or maybe plotinus?

guenon didn't like either

[Anonymous No.14670334]

>>14653312
B A S E D

[Anonymous No.14670412]

>>14670261
>>14670262
Baste.

[Anonymous No.14670415]

What should I do if I want to follow the Traditionalist path and still want to coom and read fiction and listen to music?
Is there a Path allowing one pleasures while still being Traditionalistic?

[Anonymous No.14670625]

>>14670415

Kind of doubting whether this is a serious question, but I know Christianity in particular has a long tradition of liturgical music. In Islam it was less common because many Muslims viewed music as haram, but it was still a thing in the Muslim world and is today. Music is quite a universal expression and tradition, in fact I think banning music is almost anti-tradition because only reactionary groups like Wahabis and some Baptist sects ban music.

[Anonymous No.14670646]

>>14670415
>coom
See >>14663463

Seriously though. Traditionalist like Coomaraswamy, Buckhart, and yes, Schuon wrote extensively about sacred art and music. I don't know about literature though.

[Anonymous No.14670690]

>>14666160
This essay predicts and retroactively refutes bugmen, Guénon (pbuh) was blessed with insight of a Vedic sage.

http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/viewpdf/default.aspx?article-title=A_Material_Civilization_by_Rene_Guenon.pdf
>>14666278
Guénon (pbuh), Śaṅkarācārya (pbuh), Lao-tzu (pbuh), Plato (pbuh), Plotinus (pbuh) Sanai (pbuh)
>>14666554
refuted by Guénon (pbuh) and Śaṅkarācārya (pbuh), Knowledge is superior because only knowledge can destroy ignorance whereas action is not mutually opposed to ignorance like knowledge is. The only way to reach the infinite Immortal is via knowledge because an action (like meditation) can only produce limited, non-infinite effects whereas knowledge is capable of ending the ignorance of and non-perception of He who has always existed and been true eternally.
>>14667540
t. hylic
>>14667576
It fills my heart with joy to be able to share the news with you that Guénon's (pbuh) pièce de résistance 'Le Règne de la Quantité et les Signes des Temps' was successively voted onto the unedited original version of the latest /lit/ top 100 books
>>14667848
read this essay by Guénon (pbuh) on metaphysics

http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/viewpdf/default.aspx?article-title=Oriental_Metaphysics_by_Rene_Guenon.pdf
>>14667891
cringe
>>14667935
based
>>14669401
based
>>14669463
supra-based
>>14670326
Wrong, Guénon (pbuh) cites from Plato occasionally and doesn't criticize him, he also wrote that Neoplatonism and Hermeticism are Traditional and align with the eternal metaphysical truth, but he just expressions reservations about Plotinus's (pbuh) works being a fully complete system with their seeming lack of a clear path taught in them to permanent liberation and union, although in the works of later Neoplatonists they go deeper than Plotinus (pbuh).
>>14670415
If you don't want to become an acestic you can still be initiated as a householder and even as a westerner into certain orthodox traditions with long histories and which are practiced by householders such as those within Sufism, Vishishtadvaita, Lingyatism, Kashmir Shaivism, Nath Yogis and (some) Vajrayana. Some other traditions like Neoplatonism, Hermeticism and Daoism are not really active anymore as actual initiatory orders or at least they are super hard to find and not available to most people. Advaita Vedanta and the Hesychasm tradition in Eastern Orthodoxy are really only for the people who pursue the path of monasticism within those religions it seems, although it's still always very illuminating and beneficial to study and read the literature of the various schools that you haven't been or cannot be initiated into, since their essential writings are usually written for their fellow initiated and don't conceal anything.

[Anonymous No.14670803]

Guys, the Jesuits are based. Look at Pierre Johanns, for example.

[Anonymous No.14671116]

>>14653259
What would she think of René Guénon (pbuh)?

[Anonymous No.14671232]

>>14670690
cringe

[Anonymous No.14671243]

>>14670690
based

[Anonymous No.14671287]

>>14670690
Supra-based.
>>14671232
Infra-cringe.

>>14671116
She would consider him based for retroactively refuting Hitler.

[Anonymous No.14671628]

Plug for Muslim-oriented traditionalist website with PDFs of books

http://traditionalhikma.com/

[Anonymous No.14671710]

>>14653259
>246 posts
>only 59 IPs

[Anonymous No.14671729]

>>14653259
>did not believe in (((evolution)))
>believed in Hyperborean primordial man
Based... What was his opinion on the age of the universe?

[Anonymous No.14671912]

>>14671710
>>only 59 IPs
half of those were mine.

[Anonymous No.14672024]

>>14671912
we know

[Anonymous No.14672046]

>>14655943

what a lad

[Anonymous No.14672078]

>>14672046
I know right, that based OP baiting guenonfag like that and making him look like a fool

true lad

[Anonymous No.14672161]

>>14655943
Reminder that Guenonfag is a Brazilian monkey (no wonder he feels such kinship to guenon) living in Sao Paulo. Seguro is a word in both Spanish and Portuguese.

[Anonymous No.14672446]

>>14670690
>although in the works of later Neoplatonists they go deeper than Plotinus (pbuh).

Which Platonists? He dismissed the Platonic dialogues as being banal in Intro to Hindu Doctrines.

[Anonymous No.14672910]

Assalamuailakumwarahmutallahiwabarakatuh
why dont we start every thread with a recitation of a du'a brothers? I am sure Sheikh Al-Wahid (PUBH) would agree with me here

[Anonymous No.14673464]

If initiation is so important than who initiated Muhammad? Wouldn't he be considered a mystic (which Guenon thinks is bad and feminine)?

[Anonymous No.14673763]

>>14671628
based, should be added to the OP post of further Rene Guenon (pbuh) generals along with

https://www.gornahoor.net/

http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/home.aspx

>>14671729
He agree with the Hindu view that there is an eternal cycle of the universe(s) emanating from, being sustained by and then dissolving back into the Supreme Being where it remains in a latent unmanifest state until being made manifest again at the start of a new stage of the cycle.
>>14672446
Damascius, Iamblichus, Eirugena and Nicholas of Cusa (the latter two of whom Guenon (pbuh) cites approvingly in his books on metaphysics). Eirugena's metaphysics are possibly the closet European thought ever came to Advaita Vedanta at least in terms of a systematized metaphysical framework
>>14673464
Guenon (pbuh) speculates in some of his writing that when the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) traveled to Mesopatamia with his uncle on trading excursions that he may have come into contact with and been initiated by Nestorian Christians who were known to reside in that region and who represented an earlier initiatic current in Christianity. Jason Jorjani in one video talks about how some esoteric Shia groups believed that Salman the Persian initiated the Prophet (pbuh). It's not really necessary though at the stage of divine revelation to be initiated because this act of revelation can include within itself something equivalent to initiation or it can constitute a initiation. For example in the Upanishads it says that Brahman taught the truth to the Demiurge-like Prajapati who then taught it to the line of human sages who then passed it down in succession.

[Anonymous No.14673825]

>>14673763
>It's not really necessary though at the stage of divine revelation to be initiated because this act of revelation can include within itself something equivalent to initiation

So how does that not apply to every mystic? The only thing separating the mystic (bad) from the initiated (good) is that the latter created a system out of his mysticism.

I've always found this strange in Guenon. At the beginning of every traditional system there's someone who wasn't initiated.

[Anonymous No.14674252]

did guenon take his words back on buddhism

[Anonymous No.14674283]

>>14674252
It appears he sort of did but was too smug to admit it clearly. Marco Pallis and Coomaraswamy went to Egypt to visit him and convince that Buddhism was good and not degenerate and he seemed to have accepted.

There's also letters with Jean Tourniac where Tourniac provides evidence that Guenon's take on the history of Christianity is wrong and Guenon again seems embarrassed at being wrong.

[Anonymous No.14674317]

>>14655054
Guenon praised Mormonism which is practically a cult.

[Anonymous No.14675295]

>>14674317
no he didn't, there is a chapter in the 'miscellaneous' book where he btfos mormonism

[Anonymous No.14675296]

>>14672910
based.
>>14673763
based.

[Anonymous No.14675428]

>>14673825
>So how does that not apply to every mystic?
Because mysticism doesn't imply initiation, as they do not receive direct divine revelation and are merely opening themselves to all sorts of influences of the subtle order.
>The only thing separating the mystic (bad) from the initiated (good) is that the latter created a system out of his mysticism.
The only difference is that one is initiated and the other is not. It's literally that simple. The first initiate might not even have "created" any system yet, but he'd still be orders above a mystic in the Guenonian view.
>At the beginning of every traditional system there's someone who wasn't initiated.
These people were initiated directly by supra-human entities, which is something not available to the vast majority of us.

[Anonymous No.14675455]

>>14675428
>These people were initiated directly by supra-human entities, which is something not available to the vast majority of us.
How does one differentiate between a mystic and someone who has been initiated by supra-human entities?

[Anonymous No.14675511]

>>14675455
One would ask the "higher ups" of the initiated world if it wouldn't be immediately obvious (which it probably would be, as the latter case is extremely exceptional).

[Anonymous No.14675518]

>>14675511
how does one vet which "higher ups" to trust if the question is their trustworthiness in the first place?

[Anonymous No.14675544]

>>14675518
the same way one determines the traditionality/orthodoxy of any tradition. just make sure he is part of a traditional organization and that he does not preach obvious heresy.

[Anonymous No.14675551]

>>14675544
but the question is whether that tradition is legitimate in the first place, how do you determine which traditions have actual access to metaphysical knowledge? one man's thousand year old religion is another man's heresy

[Anonymous No.14675576]

>>14657125
start with the refutation of Kantian sophistry conceived by Shaikh Guenon (pbuh)

[Anonymous No.14675601]

>>14675551
>the question is whether that tradition is legitimate in the first place
These days it's unironically enough to check their stance on Anglo-bugmanist-moralism and gay anal sodomy. If they strictly ban both and have a long enough history, they're traditional.

[Anonymous No.14675606]

>>14675601
While amusing, you're not really addressing anon's central point are you. Are we to use old religious texts as the benchmark for tradition?

[Anonymous No.14675635]

>>14675606
>Are we to use old religious texts as the benchmark for tradition?
not him, but what do you mean by that? following their own texts and not denying their divine origin (where applicable) would be a good signifier of traditionality.

[Anonymous No.14675647]

>>14675551
>how do you determine which traditions have actual access to metaphysical knowledge?
Any tradition with a great influence that has existed since before the time of the Seal of the Prophets (SAW).

[Anonymous No.14675734]

>>14675606
this, it's not really answering my question. there are lots of religions that are quite old and that don't like western modernity and so forth. but many of them are horrible, and also they all have mutually contradictory metaphysical schemes (personal gods, strict dualism, etc).

it seems like there's no criterion for traditionalists about what counts as a valid tradition? all that matters is they claim divine revelation, but some traditions don't even do that

[Anonymous No.14675808]

>>14675734
>mutually contradictory metaphysical schemes
Just read Guénon (pbuh)'s writings, he answers your questions. Under a Guénonic (pbuh) view these contradictions only exist in a level lower than that of pure metaphysics.

[Anonymous No.14675821]

>>14675808
but the question is how to tell which tradition to trust in, including guenon. eliade has totally
different views of what "pure" metaphysics entails, so does evola. which one of these three do i believe and why?

[Anonymous No.14675845]

>>14675734
>but many of them are horrible
in what sense?
>criterion for traditionalists about what counts as a valid tradition
supra-individual supra-human origin is the only necessary criterion for Guenon. methods of establishing this are a different topic altogether and involve deep scholarship and a profound study of sacred symbolism. follow the Guenon chart and read the first few chapters of "perspectives on Initiation" to understand what Guenon's view of tradition is.

[Anonymous No.14676366]

>Guénon
Based.

[Anonymous No.14677976]

>The [unmarried] woman or [unmarried] man found guilty of sexual intercourse - lash each one of them with a hundred lashes, and do not be taken by pity for them in the religion of Allah, if you should believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a group of the believers witness their punishment.

HOLY (swt) BASED

[Anonymous No.14678588]

So Guenonfag has absolutely no argument for distinguishing initiates from mystis, apart from. "Uh, uh, uh r-read Guenon!"

I see no reason why one should believe Muhammad wasn't simply opening himself up to all sorts of influences of the subtle order.

I mean, the origin of the Quran is Muhammad isolating himself in a cave. Isn't the isolation exactly what Guenon equates with mysticism and sees it as anti-initiation because it doesn't proceed from a chain of initiation?

That Guenonians can't explain this isn't surprising. Guenon himself barely draws on the Quran and Islamic sources. He didn't know classical Arabic but only conversational Egyptian Arabic (yike). He was initiated as a sufi in 1911, and didn't live as a Muslim for over 20 years afterwards. Only when he moved to Egypt did he realize that he needed a firm exoteric tradition, yet the focus of his writings always remained on Hinduism and some scholastics.

As far as Traditionalism goes, I think Evola is more lucid and less contradictory. Initiation is overrated and retreating from the political and social into exoteric traditions that you've psyopped yourself into thinking cohere with your romanticized notion of an anti-modern metaphysics isn't gonna help anyone. Guenon turns out to be extremely cringe.

[Anonymous No.14678616]

>>14653259
Recursively retroactively self-refuted by Guénon (pbuh).

[Anonymous No.14678624]

>>14678588
Also, Guenon was NEVER initiated into Hinduism. He only read a bunch of texts and got praise for them by an English mutt (Ananda Coomaraswamy).

[Anonymous No.14678688]

>>14678624
Ramana Maharishi called him the great sufi

[Anonymous No.14678705]

>>14678688
Care to address the point?

[Anonymous No.14678717]

>>14678588
If I'm not mistaken, there's a view in the Guenon corpus that the initiated, having reached a certain metaphysical presence, become that presence, which is not the case for the mystics, apparently. Where is Guenonfag when we need him? The initiation "problem" is, without a doubt, the most important and interesting aspect of Guenon's writings.

[Anonymous No.14678721]

>>14674283
>Guenon's take on the history of Christianity is wrong and Guenon again seems embarrassed at being wrong.

He was critiqued heavily on this by his successors, such as Frithjof schuon, Marco Pallis and Jean Borella, even his most conservative follower Valsan conceded this point.

[Anonymous No.14678741]

>>14678705
>Around this time (according to indications reproduced by his biographer Paul Chacornac),[9] it is possible that René Guénon became acquainted with Hinduism, specifically via the initiatic lineage of Shankarâchârya,[10] and with Taoism, due to his friendship with Georges-Albert Puyou de Pouvourville, alias Matgioi. It is likely that Guénon learned to use opium from de Pouvourville, and Guénon later described the use of opium as an aid to meditation.[11] He met Léon Champrenaud, alias Abdul-Haqq, and John-Gustav Ageli, alias Abdul-Hadi who had been initiated by Abder-Rhaman el Kébir in Cairo.

[Anonymous No.14678742]

>>14678717
>that the initiated, having reached a certain metaphysical presence, become that presence, which is not the case for the mystics, apparently.

Why? There's no actual reason for that.

[Anonymous No.14678747]

>>14678741
... >In 1910,[14] Guénon was initiated into the Sufi Shadhili order by Ivan Aguéli

[Anonymous No.14678752]

>>14678741
I know Guenon loved to do opium and would abandon his niece to go smoke it with his theosophist buddies.

The point is WHO initiated Guenon into Hinduism? No one. I already knew that he was initiated into Sufism by an anarchist vegetarian Swede, and didn't begin practicing Islam for another 20 years. But no one initiated him into Hinduism.

[Anonymous No.14678758]

>>14678742
He was critiqued heavily for that and for his understanding of the initiatic nature of Christian sacraments. Its a controversial topic within traditionalist circles. See:>>14678721

[Anonymous No.14678760]

>>14678752
Does it matter? he was initiated into multiple nonduaistic traditional forms and knew Sanskrit.

[Anonymous No.14678764]

>>14678752
>Guenon loved to do opium and would abandon his niece to go smoke it with his theosophist buddies.
Source? Otherwise you're just a troll.

[Anonymous No.14678765]

>>14678760
Yes it does matter because of the emphasis he put on initiation and the emphasis he put on Hinduism. He was never initiated into Hinduism. Period.

[Anonymous No.14678773]

>>14678764
Read any biography. He would leave his niece alone in their apartment and go to his little hipster seances at night to smoke opium and talk esoterism and return home early in the morning with a cup of coffee to not appear totally baked out of his mind.

His niece wanted out but was too shy and polite to tell it to him so she wrote to her mother. The mother knew very well what was going on and took custody of her daughter and the daughter ended up becoming a Catholic nun.

Guenon, delusional paranoid that he was, took this as some kind of attack against him rather than the reality that he was a shitty guardian who only cared about his navel-gazing contemplation. A consequence that is all too common with non-dual metaphysics. Renouncing responsibilities is seen as the peak of enlightenment.

[Anonymous No.14678774]

>>14678765
He said you needed to be initiated (he was multiple times) to achieve spiritual realization, not to write upon the elementary doctrines of said traditions which is a matter of erudition.

[Anonymous No.14678778]

>>14678773
Source pls, page numbers and chapters

[Anonymous No.14678808]

>>14678778
It's in the Chacornac and Sedgwick biographies.

>>14678774
It's still quite cringe that what he loved the most in life he was never initiated into. And yes, he could write about things which he had no experience of, like writing about the orient in East and West before ever setting foot there.

[Anonymous No.14678861]

>>14678808
>>14678808
I read the Sedgwick biography and it's not there. Troll.

>According to Paul Chacornac, Guénon chose a conversion to Islam rather than to Hinduism because the Hindu ritual life is not compatible with the Western way of life, whereas following Islamic rituals is compatible with modern Western life. He believed that Islam is the only traditional religious world that is practically accessible to Westerners.

Remember this was before mass communication and international air travel.

[Anonymous No.14678892]

>>14675821
Guenon is right, Eliade is just a weird blend of Jungianism, Guenon and academic reductionism. Most of Evola's writings on metaphysics are plagued with basic errors.

[Anonymous No.14678924]

>>14678742
>Why?
Because in initiation a realized teacher confers that realization upon the disciple, which instills a much deeper level of understanding of the truths involved than the passive experience of the mystic. The mystic may suddenly finds himself in the midst of the ocean and then just as suddenly he is back where is was to begin with; the experience remains an unexplainable mystery. the initiated has a map of how to get there and an understanding of what the significance and purpose of the ocean and the map are.
>>14678808
In the biographies it doesn't specifically say that he was smoking opium while he niece was at home.
>loved the most in life
You are heavily mistaken if you think a jivanmukta and ah-insan al-kamil such as Rene Guenon (pbuh) still had not moved past the duality of aversion and attachment, you merely reveal your own spiritual ignorance with such freudian slips.

[Anonymous No.14678932]

>>14678861
>I read the Sedgwick biography and it's not there. Troll.

It is there...esoterically.

; )

[Anonymous No.14678947]

>>14678924
> Because in initiation a realized teacher confers that realization upon the disciple blah blah

Why isn't Muhammad a mystic?

> In the biographies it doesn't specifically say that he was smoking opium while he niece was at home.

But it's quite obvious that's what he's going out to do, especially when he's hanging out with people who biographers literally state "initiated him into opium use."

[Anonymous No.14678966]

>>14678924
>You are heavily mistaken if you think a jivanmukta and ah-insan al-kamil such as Rene Guenon

Syncretic bullshit. Guenon is just slightly more elitist and right-wing theosophy. A based critique of modernity but everything else he did was cringe and armchair history.

[Anonymous No.14678978]

Reminder that Guenon dislike of academics comes from having his thesis rejected by his teacher of Sanskrit, Sylvain Levi, who outright rejected his idea of a primordial tradition.

Rene Guenon: not initiated into advaita vedanta and rejected by his teacher of Sanskrit.

[Anonymous No.14679045]

>>14678978
His writings were approved by coomaraswamy, mircea eliade, Alain Daniélou, Huston Smith, and probably much more, all who were initiated into Hinduism at one point, a kind of postactive validation.

[Anonymous No.14679052]

>>14678947
Because he received a revelation- he was a Prophet; a law giver.

[Anonymous No.14679064]

>>14678947
>Why isn't Muhammad a mystic?
No he was initiated by Allah (swt) himself via the angel Gabriel. In any case a mere mystic would have never been able to come up with and memorize on his own a text as poetic and grandiose as the holy Qu'ran.
>>14678966
t. hylic deluded by maya

[Anonymous No.14679075]

>>14679045
Alain danielou showed the orthodox Hindi pandits Guénon's works on Hinduism to them and they said that out of all the works of westerns only he had really understood their meaning.

[Anonymous No.14679145]

>>14679052
>>14679064
So the only criteria to separate an initiate from a mystic is that the former sets up a tradition. But there's nothing in that that proves that the initiate isn't teaching degenerate stuff influenced by the "subtle order." And in fact there's a lot in the Quran to indicate that Muhammad was.

> t. hylic deluded by maya

You resort to ad hominems because that's all you have. For a supposed Traditionalist who has achieved permanent union with the One you sure do spend a lot of time on 4chan and have an adolescent posting style. DUDE, SUPREMELY BASED!

This is the fruit of the Guenonian tree.