/lit/ - Literature

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>You guys focus too much on the exoteric, saying you need rituals and a lineage of such exoteric ways in order for a path to be valid when it is always, as Evola correctly stated, the esoteric matters and symbolism of the myths that make the path open.
that's an understandable point of view and i am partial to Evola's view that personal initiation is possible.

But this is definitely something that most traditionalists didn't believe in, Guenon in particular has a sort of Deus Otiosus point of view where god directly intervenes in the world at the beginning of a cycle, establishing a new Golden Age, and then recedes. From there the world manifests and as it manifests becomes further away from god, more quantitative and less qualitative, all the way to the Kali Yuga, then at the lowest point of the Kali Yuga there is another divine intervention, so the lowest coincides with the highest and a new Golden Age is established.

and the only way to initiate yourself is to attach yourself to a tradition that links you back to that point of supernatural intervention, instead of having direct access to god at any point in time

btw, it is fun to apply Guenon's model (I guess it's the Hindu model, if he stayed true to it) to things like subcultures or imageboards.