/lit/ - Literature

What does he mean by ‘metaphysics’

Why did he convert to Islam?

still unrefuted

Je plaisantais, chérie. honhonhonhon. ai-je attiré votre attention ? retour à la tradition. retour au singe.

return to monk

This guenon fellow seems highly opinionated. What did he say about Schopenhauer?

Title is self-explanatory. Was he a fan? Would he support the studying and practice of it?

What are the essentials of Rene Guenon?
In what order should they be read?
Do I have to have any prior knowledge before reading?

Was Guenon an anti-masker?

Am I late to the party?
Seems like most Traditionalists just like to stroke their own cock above anything else.

Did /lit/ unironically become a Sufi after reading Guenon?

Why the long face?

Why did Guenon dislike Theosophy? It seems like he fully recognizes a legitimacy behind Western occultism, but he disliked Theosophy so much that he wrote a whole book on it. Why is that?

Why didn't he like Evolutionism?

What is the best book to start with Rene Guenon, assuming that I am very familiar with the works of Carl Jung, and somehow familiar with the works of Freddy Neech.

how will materialists ever recover?

I'm well aware Guenon is kind of a meme around here, but I want your serious opinions. Is he a real philosopher, or just some pseud? Is it worth my time to read some of his works? From some cursory reading his ideas seem... interesting, to say the least. What do you more philosophically knowledgeable anons think about his ideas, or Traditionalist philosophy in general?

Physiognomy thread

what would guenon say about /lit/'s obsession with him?

the consistent perfidiousness of /lit/ Buddhists was a mystery to me until it dawned on me that most of them are Anglos

Why the long face?

based or cringe?

>"There is a whole ritual related to anal penetration through the narrow door that opens on the labyrinth (in the man, the intestine). In Tantric Yoga, the center of Ganesha, the guardian of the gates, is in the region of the rectum. The male organ, if it penetrates directly into the zone of the coiled energy (Kundalini), can allow to awaken it brutally and to cause states of illumination and sudden perception of transcendent realities. This is why this act can play an important role in initiation. "This explains a rite of male initiation, widespread among primitive peoples, though rarely reported by Western observers ..., in which adult male insiders have sex in the anus with novices ... The custom of this kind can be very much at the basis of the homosexual eroticism encouraged so strongly by the Greeks in the classical period. This act is one of the accusations made against the Dionysian organizations by their detractors, and against certain initiatory groups in the Christian and Islamic world"
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