/lit/ - Literature

In his earlier years, Guenon suggested that Westerners have three possible paths:
>Learn from Eastern Traditions and revive the Catholic Church
>Islamized Europe under a Sufi intellectual elite
>Barbarism

Why is the third path so unexplored?
Is /trad/lit/ afraid of embracing option 3?
Is barbarism not the true Western Tradition?
What does Guenonian barbarism look like?


>At the commencement, the noble caste was always the barbarian caste: their superiority did not consist first of all in their physical, but in their psychical power—they were more complete men
-Nietzsche

>Barbarism is the natural state of mankind
-Robert E. Howard

Barbarism is the true Primordial Tradition

>The traditional teaching is handed down under conditions that are strictly determined by its nature: to produce its full effect, it must always be adapted to the intellectual possibilities of each man to whom it is offered, and should be graduated according to the degree of understanding reached at any given moment, and this demands, on the part of a recipient who aspires to advance still further, an unremitting personal effort to assimilate effectively the teaching imparted to him. This is a natural consequence of the way in which the doctrine is treated as a connected whole, and it is this fact that makes necessary the oral and direct teaching which nothing else can replace; indeed, in its absence, the chain of regular and unbroken 'spiritual filiation' is bound to be broke, except in certain quite unusual cases, where continuity can be preserved by other means which it would however be too difficult to describe in a Western language for us to undertake to do so here.
-Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines, Chapter "The Traditional Teaching"

>continuity can be preserved by other means
what exactly is he talking about here? via text?

I used to think there had to be a strict transmission from guru to disciple for it to be valid from the Guenonian perspective but this small bit caught my eye the other day while re-reading Intro to Hindu Doctrines.

hypothetically speaking, why couldn't something like Norse Paganism be revived if it prophecized to enter a 'Dark Age'?