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>>15099495
>What the hell is the deal with this guy?

“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

>>15024845
In Hindu non-dualism God exists, and it's not true that you cannot know anything, since God is the ultimate knowledge that you come to know in the end through spiritual instruction; as the self-shining awareness which is the basis of all-knowledge God in non-dualism makes knowledge possible by His existence, and the ultimate knowledge is a realization or recollection of oneself's true nature as God. Also there are schools of non-dualism which don't regard the world as being unreal in some way. Absolutely brainlet-tier chart, for someone who has pretenses of being an intellectual Jay should know better.
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these
>>15024874
Christ was a non-dualist who was misunderstood by later Christians who fell for Paulism instead
>>15024909
"I and my Father are one" - John 10:30

>>15023818
pic related

>>15024221
BASED

Alright what's his best book?

hardmode: why

>>14998591
*forever retroactively refutes you beyond all possible disputation"

nothing personal hylic

>>14991335
>This is precisely what modern Westerners overlook: they admit nothing higher than rational or discursive knowledge, which is necessarily indirect and imperfect, being what might be described as reflected knowledge; and even this lower type of knowledge they are coming more and more to value only insofar as it can be made to serve immediate practical ends. Absorbed by action to the point of denying everything that lies beyond it, they do not see that this action itself degenerates, from the absence of any principle, into an agitation as vain as it is sterile. This indeed is the most conspicuous feature of the modern period: need for ceaseless agitation, for unending change, and for ever-increasing speed, matching the speed with which events themselves succeed one another. It is dispersion in multiplicity, and in a multiplicity that is no longer unified by consciousness of any higher principle; in daily life, as in scientific ideas, it is analysis driven to an extreme, endless subdivision, a veritable disintegration of human activity in all the orders in which this can still be exercised; hence the inaptitude for synthesis and the incapacity for any sort of concentration that is so striking in the eyes of Easterners. These are the natural and inevitable results of an ever more pronounced materialization, for matter is essentially multiplicity and division, and this-be it said in passing-is why all that proceeds from matter can beget only strife and all manner of conflicts between peoples as between individuals. The deeper one sinks into matter, the more the elements of division and opposition gain force and scope; and, contrariwise, the more one rises toward pure spirituality, the nearer one approaches that unity which can only be fully realized by consciousness of universal principles.

>>14988695
Dangerously based....

>>14988788
Crying is very based, anon....
Many prophets cried when contemplating upon Allah (swt) as Guenon (pbuh) taught them to do, such as David (pbuh).....

>I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
>Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
>Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.
>The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer.
>Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

>>14984794
spam him with Rene Guenon (pbuh) memes on twitter

>>14975723
>As I originally wrote this post in sanskrit
holy..... baaased....

A U M........

>>14967793
I was merely trying to help the hylics by engaging them with material more suitable to their own level, fear not brother

>The Eastern doctrines are unanimous, as also were the ancient doctrines of the West; in asserting that contemplation is superior to action, just as the unchanging is superior to change. Action, being merely a transitory and momentary modification of the being, cannot possibly carry its principle and sufficient reason in itself; if it does not depend on a principle outside its own contingent domain, it is but illusion; and this principle, from which it draws all the reality it is capable of possessing-its existence and its very possibility can be found only in contemplation, or, if one will, in knowledge, for these two terms are fundamentally synonymous, or at least coincide, since it is impossible in any way to separate knowledge from the process by which it is acquired. 4 Similarly change, in the widest sense of the word, is unintelligible and contradictory; in other words, it is impossible without a principle from which it proceeds and which, being its principle, cannot be subject to it, and is therefore necessarily unchanging; it was for this reason that, in the ancient world of the West, Aristotle asserted that there must be a 'unmoved mover' of all things. It is knowledge that serves as the 'unmoved mover' of action; it is clear that action belongs entirely to the world of change and 'becoming'; knowledge alone gives the possibility of leaving this world and the limitations that are inherent in it, and when it attains to the unchanging-as does principial or metaphysical knowledge, that is to say knowledge in its essence-it becomes itself possessed of immutability, for all true knowledge essentially consists in identification with its object.

>>14917409
>They represent the metaphysical point....
Holy... based....
these point(s) are One and Many, brothers!...

>>14914803
Baaaased baased baaased

>>14846840
>influence from heidegger
OH NO NO NO

>>14842558
Highly based. (pbuh).

>>14818199
>>liberalism/the modern west is good because it makes people individuals
>>each individual now creates their own metaphyiscs
>>this is good because we get lots of material things
May Guénon ﷺ illuminate that God-forsaken country and soften their hearts to His ﷺ magnificent teaching.

>>14816408
>retroactive argument

>>14803583
>I'm interested what you would define that is.

>>14795888
Relation is neither internal nor external. If it inheres in one of the two terms, it would not relate it with the other term; the same relation cannot inhere in both the terms as it is indivisible; and if it falls outside both the terms, it becomes a third term which requires another relation to relate it with the first two terms and so on ad infinitum. And without a real relation there is no real causation.

>>14768344

Holy based.
I vow to keep the Guenonian (pbuh) bloodline strong.
I shall sire children with an Egyptian woman after I do enough Dawah to convert her to Guenonianism (pbui).
Brothers, if any of you are from Egypt, we should trade Egyptian wives and multiply and spread all across the Holy Land brining the Eternal World of Guenon (pbuh) along with us. It will sustain us in the desert and shall be our lifeblood.

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>>14761119
>Guenon literally believed there are more natural numbers than even numbers.
Holy based....

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>>14737097
Very based, brothers!
I have established a monastery for Guenonians (pbuh) in a barn near my house.
If anyone happens to pass it by, you are all welcome inside to stay and non-profanely study the Master (pbuh) for as long as necessary.

>>14726768
>refute Guenon
What folly. Truly a fool's errand.
Guenon (pbuh) is retroactively eternal and retroactively irrefutable.

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>>14726728
Supra-based.

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>>14726750
t. infra-intellectual hylics.