/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16113665]

So now that the dust has settled... what does /lit/ think of him?

[Anonymous No.16113752]

>>16113665
He is genius, I thank God for blessing me through causing me to learn of Guenon’s existence

[Anonymous No.16113758]

I prefer Evola but they're both good

[Anonymous No.16113861]

>>16113665
Believed in magic and Atlantis, hated calculus, and said that Hindus don't believe in reincarnation. Belongs on /x/

[Anonymous No.16113942]

>>16113861
>Believe believe believe
Ignoramus detected

[Anonymous No.16113949]

he is a nonentity

[Anonymous No.16114893]

I think that Iphones are overpriced scams that spy on you.

[Anonymous No.16114915]

>>16113752
>>16113758
>>16113942
Based Guenon(pbuh)noisseurs
>>16113861
Cringe hylic

[Anonymous No.16115407]

>>16113665
he's a scam

[Anonymous No.16116298]

>>16115407
in what way?

[Anonymous No.16116325]

>>16113665
Best pseud ever.

[Anonymous No.16116345]

>>16113665
Guenon (pbuh) has had an everlasting impact on this board that will never be forgotten.

[Anonymous No.16116358]

>>16113665
Literally who? Even if I read his work, why would I know what he looks like?

[Anonymous No.16116495]

What should is start with, never read anything from him.

[Anonymous No.16116506]

The dumb pieces of shit who think guénon is some kind of pseud. LMAO. He's a brilliant mathematician, knows his western philosophy better than anyone on this board. He also learned arabic, chinese and sanskrit. That puts him above pretty much anyone in the western world. But that would require you braindead morons to open one of his books. The state of pseuds makes me want to vomit. I don't even larp as an orientalist or a metaphysicist or whatever.. But I actually read shit and buzzwords like "traditionalism" and other nonsensical terms don't have the slightest effect on me.

I won't even dwelve into his life as a sufi muslim.

Plebian mentality should be violently repressed. 99% of people should not get near any form of book or knowledge.

[Anonymous No.16116537]

I never really got how he's a pseud desu, and I've read a lot of philosophy. Only read ITHD though. Why is he considered such a pseud?

[Anonymous No.16116539]

>>16116506
you sound so fucking serious. What makes you happy besides GUENON???

[Anonymous No.16116569]

>>16116298
metaphysics is a practic tool to change the material world, he just want to mantain structures, metaphysical and physical structures. These mystical brainlets always have to create myths and esoteric wankery to cope with the fact that they are afraid of life and other men, or women.

[Anonymous No.16116592]

>>16116495
with his first book inshallah

https://archive.org/details/reneguenon

[Anonymous No.16116610]

>>16116569
>metaphysics is a practic tool to change the material world,
No it's not, metaphysics means 'beyond physics', it refers to that which goes beyond the normal physical or material world

[Anonymous No.16116637]

>>16116358
>Literally who?
The patron saint of /lit/


>René Guénon 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 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, 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 was the chief influence in the formation of my own intellectual outlook (quite apart from the question of Orthodox Christianity). . . . It was René Guénon 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 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 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.16116645]

>>16116637
>“In a world increasingly rife with heresy and pseudo-religion, Guénon 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. 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, 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 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 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.16116728]

>>16116637
>>16116645
>posting 10 literally who's
who?

[Anonymous No.16116735]

>>16113665
Lovecraft is pretty neat

[Anonymous No.16116754]

>>16116728
must be embarrassing to be a burger

[Anonymous No.16116772]

>>16116754
I'm a yurofag and have never heard of any of those authors. Are they important?

[Anonymous No.16116782]

Schizo.

[Anonymous No.16116834]

>>16116645
>>16116637
https://vocaroo.com/hDOSRM644s3

[Anonymous No.16116864]

>>16116834
Learn English

[Anonymous No.16116867]

>>16116637
>>16116645
>Gai Eaton
some Sufi scholar
>Jean Borella
Christian theologian no one's heard of
>Whitall N. Perry
literally who tradboo
>Fr. Seraphim Rose
some Orthodox mutt
>Jocelyn Godwin
literally who pagan larper
>Walter Shewring
1 of hundreds of translaters
>Martin Lings
literally who tradboo
>Philip Sherrard
unknown bong translator
>Marco Pallis
literally who tradboo
>Harry Oldmeadow
literally who tradboo

I had to google all these people btw and I realized half of them were Traditionalists themselves, so it basically amounts to a trad circle jerk.

[Anonymous No.16116871]

>>16116867
Based

[Anonymous No.16116874]

>>16116834
Based mutt

[Anonymous No.16116890]

>>16116637
WHO

[Anonymous No.16116919]

>>16116867
did you took the time to search those authors? who are they!!!??

[Anonymous No.16117261]

>>16116610
imagine being this retarded and illiterate

[Anonymous No.16117280]

>>16116537
Because of shit like >>16116637

Believe it or not there was a time where threads about perennialism and guenon were good on /lit/, before Guenonfag showed up and started turning every fucking one into an autistic schizo argument, then spending another 2 years of his life spamming shit like pic related every day for months and months on end

All he cares about is "refuting" a handful of groups he dislikes. Look here -
>>/lit/image/fG9nvXFvjBzGFskbe5usYg
This goes on for pages, and this is only one of the images he posted for just this one thing he was obsessed with, for years

He never progressed beyond reading and shilling basic Guenon texts, the most he did was force himself through Shankara's commentaries and the principal upanishads which anyone can do. The highlight of the guenonfaggotry saga was when anons mixed up some other poor asshole with him and it was immediately obvious that it was not in fact him, because that other anon actually knew his shit.

There's nothing wrong with Guenon or Shankara, it's just that one faggot.

[Anonymous No.16118218]

>>16117261
>Imagine being so full of yourself

[Anonymous No.16118587]

>>16116728
>Seraphim Rose
>"literally who"
I'll give you the rest, though

[Anonymous No.16118605]

[Anonymous No.16118610]

>>16116834
based

[Anonymous No.16119152]

>>16116506
The dumb pieces of shit who think guénon is some kind of pseud. LMAO. He's a brilliant mathematician, knows his western philosophy better than anyone on this board. He also learned arabic, chinese and sanskrit. That puts him above pretty much anyone in the western world. But that would require you braindead morons to open one of his books. The state of pseuds makes me want to vomit. I don't even larp as an orientalist or a metaphysicist or whatever.. But I actually read shit and buzzwords like "traditionalism" and other nonsensical terms don't have the slightest effect on me.

I won't even dwelve into his life as a sufi muslim.

Plebian mentality should be violently repressed. 99% of people should not get near any form of book or knowledge

[Anonymous No.16119171]

>>16119152
>He's a brilliant mathematician
The guy wouldn't be able to pass a freshman level calculus class

[Anonymous No.16119332]

>>16119171
The dumb pieces of shit who think guénon is some kind of pseud. LMAO. He's a brilliant mathematician, knows his western philosophy better than anyone on this board. He also learned arabic, chinese and sanskrit. That puts him above pretty much anyone in the western world. But that would require you braindead morons to open one of his books. The state of pseuds makes me want to vomit. I don't even larp as an orientalist or a metaphysicist or whatever.. But I actually read shit and buzzwords like "traditionalism" and other nonsensical terms don't have the slightest effect on me.

I won't even dwelve into his life as a sufi muslim.

Plebian mentality should be violently repressed. 99% of people should not get near any form of book or knowledge.

[Anonymous No.16119437]

>>16116637
>>16116645
This has to be at least the 10th time I've seen these exact same quotes posted. What the hell is wrong with you?

[Anonymous No.16119517]

>>16119437
The dumb pieces of shit who think guénon is some kind of pseud. LMAO. He's a brilliant mathematician, knows his western philosophy better than anyone on this board. He also learned arabic, chinese and sanskrit. That puts him above pretty much anyone in the western world. But that would require you braindead morons to open one of his books. The state of pseuds makes me want to vomit. I don't even larp as an orientalist or a metaphysicist or whatever.. But I actually read shit and buzzwords like "traditionalism" and other nonsensical terms don't have the slightest effect on me.

I won't even dwelve into his life as a sufi muslim.

Plebian mentality should be violently repressed. 99% of people should not get near any form of book or knowledge.

[Anonymous No.16120190]

>>16116637
I can feel his eyes gazing into my soul

[Anonymous No.16121153]

>>16113665
As a man working in a STEM laboratory, I found a lot of truth in the criticisms her makes in Crisis of the Modern World.

[Anonymous No.16121166]

>>16113665
I prefer Serrano, desu.

[Anonymous No.16121245]

>>16117261
unironically this but to this one here >>16116569

[Anonymous No.16121264]

>>16116569
>tool to change the material world
>mantain structures, metaphysical and physical structures
you are really retarded arent you

[Anonymous No.16121608]

>>16116834
The background music makes it more based than already is

[Anonymous No.16122663]

>>16116637
>All of these people use big words so they're obviously correct!

[Anonymous No.16122906]

>>16113861
>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