/lit/ - Literature

What were his views on race?

Many people ask what Guénon thought of it, there is not much but I found this in one of his letters:

"TheSunnis, theShiitesand theKhawarijdiffer mainly on the question of the modalities of theCaliphate;there is no heterodoxy in that, and moreover it is far from being as clear-cut as one imagines in Europe;there are so many nuances and degrees that it is almost impossible to draw clear boundaries.What is heterodox are thefirâq, that is to say the sects;it is true that most of them came out ofShiism, including the most recent ones (such asBehaism, for example, which has, so to speak, nothing more Islamic);one must therefore believe that there is something there that favors their appearance, but, in any case, that is no longerShiismas such."

Is gay sex traditional?

Climate change proves Guénon (pbuh) right. This year we had an absolutely crazy winter in Europe, (I was trapped in Madrid for almost a week due to a blizzard like there hasn't been in a century) and now observing the models it seems that there will be a boiling summer in America. Contrarily to the materialistic theories, climate change from the traditional perspective (the only one that matters) is caused by the dispersive forces of modernity that dissolve the great wall that protects us from the penetration of the sub-material world. In the end the dissolution will be such that there will be a literal summoning of hell on Earth. This is found in the scripture for example when the prophet writes:
>The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire.

Why does he look microcephalic?

what would a phrenologist have to say about this bizarre specimen?

Why are there no contemporary guenonian philosophers?

Have any of you joined any tradition after reading Guenon?

I don't see the point of it, even though I'm interested in symbolism, and have a background in philosophy (analytic/continental)

>finally start reading Guenon
>realize that a big source of misery in today's society is due to the entirely materialistic view of man thought the lens of evolutionary psychology and scientific empiricism
Based

Rene Guenon was a crypto-accelerationist the whole time. The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times is the q/acc manifesto, or Quantity Accelerationism.

>>12931581
I will as soon as you stop calling the Absolute God and syncretizing religions, and for the last time, stop misinterpreting what I've said, my failed student!

His psychologization of symbols makes him a Satanist.

>>12156398
Way ahead of you.

Does esotericism have a phenological impact on your face?

What the fug was wrong with his face lmao he looks like a lion lmao

>>10927715
>Spiritual Universalist
In other words, a cucked Perennialism.

Hi /lit/, how do I into René Guénon? The subject matter really consists of my main interests (Traditionalism, religion and metaphysics) but I can't over the feeling of how impenetrable his work feels. Maybe I'm just too much of a brainlet. Can someone please suggest a good order in which to read his works?

>All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old wants, satisfied by the production of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes. In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations. And as in material, so also in intellectual production. The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.

What do you think about this, cultural Marxists? Will you finally accept that you've been BTFO?

>“It is doubtless true that the masses have always been led in one way or another, and it could be said that their part in history consists primarily in allowing themselves to be led, since they represent a predominantly passive element, a materia in the Aristotelian sense of the word; but in order to lead them today it is sufficient to possess oneself of purely material means, taking the word matter this time in its ordinary sense, and this clearly shows to what depths the present age has sunk; and at the same time these same masses are made to believe that they are not being led, but that they are acting spontaneously and governing themselves, and the fact that they believe this to be true gives an idea of the extent of their unintelligence.”

start with the hindus