/lit/ - Literature

>>21527137
That's where you're wrong, mleccha. Time is a double helix.

Here we are thinking especially of medicine considered as an Upavêda; and what we say about it applies equally to the traditional medicine of the Far East. Without losing anything of its practical character, this medicine is much more extensive than what we are accustomed to designate by this name; in addition to pathology and therapeutics, it includes, in particular, many considerations which, in the West, would be included in physiology or even in psychology, but which, naturally, are treated in a quite different way. The results which such a science obtains in application may, in many cases, appear extraordinary to those who have only a too inaccurate idea of it; we believe, moreover, that it is extremely difficult for a Westerner to attain sufficient knowledge in this kind of study, in which quite other means of investigation are employed than those to which he is accustomed.

General Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines


Traditional Chinese medicine, in particular, is in a way entirely based on the distinction between yang and yin: all disease is due to a state of imbalance, i.e. an excess of one of these two terms in relation to the other; it is therefore necessary to strengthen the latter in order to re-establish the equilibrium, and in this way the disease is reached in its very cause, instead of being limited to treating more or less external and superficial symptoms, as is done by the secular medicine of the modern Westerners.

The Great Triad


About Tamos, I received a letter from him a few days ago; he has been ill again this winter, but less seriously and especially for a shorter time than last year; it is true that this time he must not have been tempted to follow again the treatment by sulphonamides which had put him in a rather sad state and whose unfortunate effects had only dissipated after several months. This kind of medication, which is so fashionable, produces a real stupefaction and an almost childish mental state; I even wonder if it would not be made all purposely for that, because there are inventions in the current medicine which have a really diabolic character...

letter to Patrice Genty, 1949


The unfortunate thing is that here the old traditional medicine has completely disappeared before the invasion of modern medicine, which, for my part, I have always carefully refrained from using!

letter to Julius Evola, 1948


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>>20378018
He mathematically proved that Advaita Vedanta is real

>>20370818
In his review of the Protocols, Guénon said that the real counter-initiation wants people to believe in these scapegoats (jews, freemasons, etc.) so it will divert their attention. A good thing is that you also mentioned pseudo-spirituality, which even though it is related with counter-initiation, it's not the same thing.

Guenon:
>just go join an existing tradition bro
>hinduism? impenetrable to westerners if not by caste then by rite, too spoopy
>islam? abrahamic and somewhat similar once you get past the arabic and it has great esoteric paths still extant

downsides to islam:
>growing and prominent modernist Salafi/wahhabi movement that advocates the mass murder of conventional ashari-creed muslims and 'sufis'
>is a political unit as well as a personal religion. you are essentially casting away your old tribal/ethnic/racial filial piety to essentially help western muslim diaspora immigrants get what they want out of the dunya. ala paying zakat to import their economic migrant cousins under the guise of 'refugees' to your homeland
>you will never fit in as a white muslim unless you move to Bosnia or some shit
>the white/western converts are more than not xenophiliacs and exoticists
>no authenticity
>alienate all your family members and other euros look at you as a weird collaborator with no real identity

Was Guenon full of shit? You can say this should all be discounted by a person who seeks God/Truth, but it's a sad reality. To be legit you'd need to do what Guenon did and move to an Islamic country, but not everyone can do that.

>paganism doesn't exist anymore, any attempt to revive it is a tarp
>christianity is a dead, hollowed out husk
>catholicism especially
>orthodoxy is as big a LARP for westerners as islam, and the orthodox churches are corrupt facades. especially the Russian Stalin-founded one

Is there no hope?

It starts out with a Frenchmen in Paris who watches Napolean conduct a rally before setting off to Waterloo. Invigorated by the emperor's assurance of victory, he later bears a son hoping he could follow in his footsteps and become a renowned architect who would fashion skyscrapers that rivaled Gustave's masterpiece, the Eiffel tower. Unfortunately the Grandest of all Architects bestowed upon our hero a disproportionate facial structure which would haunt him most of his life. In a cruel twist of fate, this apish aesthetic would only be matched by our hero's mark of lineage: Guenon (monkey).

The first act has him enrolling into Catholic school where he excelled in mathematics. He would however be bullied by his classmates to no end, driving him to dark places. Everyday he walked up the entrance of the city's hall and gazed upon the words of the building 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'. Troubled by this adage was he, for how what is brotherhood among his tormentors? What is equality among his disfigurement? What is liberty among the prison of outward appearance?

'No more' he utters.

In the second act, he drops his previous ambitions and begins a new path. A path that would bring meaning into his world and answer the question: Why the long face? He delved into the Occult where he worshipped Satan himself. This though, still had him hungry for more. He went on to Gnosticism and then embarked on a study of Oriental traditions. Ever so close did he come to true nature of his being, he needed a spark. That spark would be in the form Theosophy. Guenon snuck into a grim mansion owned by Blavatsky in order to request the ultimate meaning. To his amazement, Blavatsky herself was summoned directly in front of him. She challenged him in a cosmic debate, to which Guenon agreed. Unable to outwit her, he concedes and tells her that he will leave immediately. However, he cunningly pilfers her sacred scrolls on his way out. Guenon knew what had to be done and modeled his ideas and framework after Blavatsky's stolen texts. This would later be known as Traditionalist School.

In the final act, he was greeted by Sufi spiritual leaders who were impressed by his analysis of Shankarian texts. They urged him to move to Cairo and join their order. However he would have to know for certain if this would be the right decision. He climbed the peak of the Eiffel tower, for elevators are modern inventions, and pleaded with God 'why have thou made me look like this O Creator'. God revealed himself and spoke unto him thus: 'I have made you monke because only you have the power to return to monke'. It was right then that Guenon came to the conclusion that western society will never be saved so long as they have proportional faces. Guenon realized that Cairo may be the only escape from this western hellish nightmare. And it was. For Guenon, Cairo was the promised land he was searching for all those years and for good reason: They looked like him.

post your rarest Guenon

Reading some of Guenon's books really made me interested in Taoism. Is there any possibility for a westerner to get initiated into it? Asking about the traditional stuff and I would even move to China for it, so please don't tell me about american new-age groups.

>and my refutation

Which philosophers were NEETs?

I am new to traditionalism, should I start with Guenon or should I read some basic ancient texts first? Also, what Guenon books should I start with?

>>16926864

>"Matter is essentially multiplicity and division; and this, be it said in passing, is why all that proceeds from matter can beget only strife and all manner of conflicts between peoples and between individuals."

- Rene Guenon (pbuh)

>>16928425

Whitehead was retroactively refuted by pic related (pbuh) and Parmenides (pbuh)

>>16851891
>Trad is just consoom
it's the opposite you stupid hylic, spirituality is antithetical to consumerism

"Matter is essentially multiplicity and division; and this, be it said in passing, is why all that proceeds from matter can beget only strife and all manner of conflicts between peoples and between individuals." - Rene Guenon (pbuh)

>>16524869
This man, Rene Guenon, may he rest in peace, was the most big-brained in all of western thought
>>16525163
Plotinus was BTFO for his incomplete metaphysical insight and attainment by the incomparable Rene Guenon

>"I never wrote anything on Plotinus, and admit that I never had the time to study him closely; but I know that there are many similarities to be made with oriental doctrines...Only there is one thing that has always shocked me: this history of states that Plotinus would have attained a certain number of times in his life, and, from which, seem to have left nothing permanent, which is poorly understood from the point of view of initiation; there would have been, in any case, something very incomplete in relation to his realization." - Rene Guenon, letter to Dr.Duby, 14 December 1936, Cairo

Such is his brilliant intellectual prowess that he was able to identify the fatal flaw and diagnose the problems in Plotinus without ever studying him closely.

>>10641509
doesn't seem that bad, he just has a long face which makes it seem relatively smaller