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>>19214013

>As for Carl Jung, his influence unfortunately is gaining ground everywhere, in France as in Italy and Switzerland, and he seems to me still more dangerous than Freud because of his pseudo-spiritual pretense. Recently I had to write an article about the deformations of the very idea of Tradition provoked by his theory of the “collective unconscious”.

https://www.gornahoor.net/?p=4693

Letters from Guenon to Evola (X)
29 October 1949
Cairo, Egypt

>There is certainly something more than a mere question of vocabulary in the fact, very significant in itself, that present-day psychology considers nothing but the ‘subconscious’, and never the ‘superconscious’, which ought logically to be its correlative; there is no doubt that this usage expresses the idea of an extension operating only in a downward direction, that is, toward the aspect of things that corresponds, both here in the human being and elsewhere in the cosmic environment, to the ‘fissures’ through which the most ‘malefic’ influences of the subtle world penetrate, influences having a character than can truthfully and literally be described as ‘infernal’ (2). There are also some who adopt the term ‘unconscious’ as a synonym or equivalent of ‘subconscious’, and this term, taken literally, would seem to refer to an even lower level, but as a matter of fact it only corresponds less closely to reality; if the object of study were really unconscious it is difficult to see how it could be spoken of at all, especially in psychological terms; and besides, what good reason is there, other than mere materialistic and mechanistic prejudice, for assuming that anything unconscious really exists? However that may be, there is another thing worthy of note, and that is the strange illusion which leads psychologists to regard states as being more ‘profound’ when they are quite simply more inferior; is not this already an indication of the tendency to run counter to spirituality, which alone can be truly profound since it alone touches the principle and the very center of the being?

https://ignotascintilla.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/renc3a9-guc3a9non-the-misdeeds-of-psychoanalysis.pdf

>>18574088
>How easy to ignore is the nazi/fascist shit in this book?
Quite easy, Ananda Coomaraswamy had words of praise for it even while he critique certain errors it made, and he was a non-white person who was respected in the mainstream academic art-historian community
>Is it still a good read if you ignore all the anti semitic stuff
Yes, but just read some of the basic works of Rene Geunon (pbuh) first so you learn how to separate the wheat from the chaff

>>18540152
honestly it was reading Guenon that made me realize how foolish it all was

What does /lit/ think of Guénon ?

>>14964672
how can one man be so based?

>>14927196
>Jung
Retroactively refuted by Rene Guenon (pbuh)


https://www.gornahoor.net/?p=4693

>As for Carl Jung, his influence unfortunately is gaining ground everywhere, in France as in Italy and Switzerland, and he seems to me still more dangerous than Freud because of his pseudo-spiritual pretense. Recently I had to write an article about the deformations of the very idea of Tradition provoked by his theory of the “collective unconscious”.

the GOAT

>>14534890
Kant was refuted by Guenon (pbuh)

>>14439496
>tfw I posted my US passport proving I'm American but schizofag is so obsessed with me that he doesn't want to believe that the Swedebro isn't me because he wants to savor doxxing someone whom he imagines to be me
oh well, I feel sorry for my swedebro but I will continue shitposting on /lit/ all the same

Guénonfag keeps spamming Guénon because he thinks that it will encourage discussion. Yet, Guénon will eventually be banned from /lit/.

I think Guénonfag is actually the anti Gweenon schizo that he is talking about.

This breach with tradition calls for further comment, for it is precisely this that produced the modern world, whose characteristics could all be summed up under one single heading, namely opposition to the traditional spirit; and negation of tradition, once again, is the same as individualism. This, indeed, is in perfect accord with what has already been said, since it is intellectual intuition and pure metaphysical doctrine that constitute the very principle of every traditional civilization; once the principle is denied, all its consequences must be denied also, at least implicitly, and thereby everything that really merits the name of tradition is destroyed at one blow. We have already seen how this process has worked in the case of the sciences, and we shall therefore not return to them but pass on to another province, in which the manifestations of the anti-traditional outlook strike the eye perhaps even more immediately, since the changes produced have had a direct effect on the great mass of the people in the West.

Actually, the traditional sciences of the Middle Ages were confined to a not very numerous elite, and some of them were even a monopoly of strictly closed schools, and therefore constituted an esoterism in the true sense of the word; but there was also a part of the tradition that belonged to all without distinction, and it is of this outward part that we now wish to speak. At that time, the tradition of the West bore outwardly a specifically religious form, being in fact represented by Catholicism; it is therefore in the realm of religion that we shall have to consider the revolt against the traditional outlook, a revolt which, when it had acquired a definite form, became known as Protestantism; it is not difficult to see that this is a manifestation of individualism; indeed one could call it individualism as applied to religion. Protestantism, like the modern world, is built upon mere negation, the same negation of principles that is the essence of individualism; and one can see in it one more example, and a most striking one, of the state of anarchy and dissolution that has arisen from this negation.

traditionalism

>>14017388
>>14017396
>>14017413
Kekd

>when the opium kicks in

>>13979480
>*retroactively refutes processionism*

>>13898633
too late, every noteworthy and intelligent poster on on /lit/ has already read him

>>13740465
No, Guenon set us free

>>13740951
>He said that he had not converted to Islam but “moved into” it: “whoever understands the unity of traditions . . . ,” he wrote, “is necessarily . . . ‘unconvertible’ to anything.” Of his “moving into” Islam Guenon also wrote: “There is in it nothing that implies the superiority of one traditional form—in itself—over another, but merely what one could call reasons of spiritual convenience.”

>>13718233
Guenon! start with his first book

What is the praxis of traditionalism? Convert to Islam?

>when the opium is stronger than you expected

>when the opium hit like AYOOOOOO

>when the opium hits