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Here is a "Guénonian" "proof" of God it is not exclusive to him, and it isn’t an original argument. It is an adaptation from several different arguments, or rather another perspective on them. Schuon uses the same language, so does Coomaraswamy, but the argumentation has been inspired by the ideas explicated by Guénon, who gives a clearer explanation of this particular use of “infinity” in several places.

The infinite is “supra-rational” in that logic itself leads “beyond itself” (not “beneath itself”) into infinity. The idea of infinity having “no limits” is not a “negation” in the sense of combining two contrary concepts (a square and a circle) into one (also limited) concept, it is that which, in Guenon’s words:

“…nothing can be denied, and is therefore whatcontains everything, that outside of which there is nothing; and this idea of the Infinite, which is thus the most affirmative of all because it comprehends or embraces all particular affirmations whatsoever,can only be expressed in negative terms by reason of its absolute indetermination. In language, any direct affirmation is in fact necessarily a particular and determined affirmation-the affirmation of something particular-whereas total and absolute affirmation is no particular affirn1ation to the exclusion of others since it implies them all equally”

The argument(s) can be put like this:

1.The infinite is that which has no limits.
2.The infinite can be conceived in the mind.
3.Whatever can be conceived in the mind exists in the mind,
4.The infinite can either exist only in my mind or in reality outside the mind.
5.The infinite, by definition, has no limits, including limits of existence.
6.Therefore, the infinite also exists outside my mind.
7.The infinite is greater than all things with limits.
8.The universe has limits.
9.The infinite is greater than the universe.
10.There is either one infinite or more than one infinite.
11.If there is more than one infinite, they are limited in that they are not one another (i.e they exclude each other).
12.The infinite cannot be limited in any way.
13.Exclusion is a limitation.
14.Therefore, there is only one infinite.
15.There is either something greater in some quality than the infinite or the infinite is the greatest in all qualities.
16.For something to be greater than the infinite, it means the infinite is limited in that respect.
17.The infinite cannot be limited in any respect.
18.Therefore, the infinite is the greatest in all qualities.

Source: https://theosymmetry.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/the-guenonian-proof-of-god-the-metaphysical-infinity/

Updated with more precisely formatted arguments:
https://theosymmetry.wordpress.com/2020/08/13/guenons-infinity-some-more-clarifications/