/lit/ - Literature

>>18370856
In the article "christianism and initiation", Guénon clearly says there is no initiation in catholicism but that it doesn't apply to orthodoxy. That there is clearly initiation with hesychasm and on the Mont Athos. He says a good indicator of this is the absence of mysticism in the orthodox church (and also repetitive prayer learned from a spiritual father,...). He also talks about that in his letters.
>I seem to recall some criticism of Orthodox mysticism as well
He said the opposite, the mystics he criticize are only catholics or protestants. Of course he says mysticism is a degeneration of a similar path of devotion initiatic in essence.

I think the disciple he talks about was Michel Valsan, who went into it in detail about hesychasm and also clearly stating, as a sufi, that only orthodoxy was alive, from an initiatic standpoint.

In fact it was one of the critics of the sad Schuon when he sperged out against Guénon.

>>18370898
same bro