/lit/ - Literature

>>17505909
Okay, relativist. Not only is that not actually a Traditional viewpoint but the man himself also maintained that certain valid Traditions were nonetheless totally disagreeable to certain people. It’s not a matter of picking and choosing what fits your fancy and literally never has been.

René Guenon and Julius Evola are probably the two biggest voices in and around the Traditionalist circles, with much of the credibility we lend to René Guenon actually coming via Julius Evola but if you actually read his letters it becomes plainly obvious that Guenon was rather confused himself and frankly, not at all willing to engage with the most serious of scholarship to benefit his readers. Guenon will lead you in a whole array of directions except for one very obvious one and that in and of itself is telling. The fact that a Westerner, raised in the West, who proclaimed himself to be in search of a valid Tradition belonging to the West, absolutely refused to engage with the Orthodox form of his own Western Tradition is the greatest disservice he could have ever given his readers.

> The politically motivated destruction or the Templars led to the diminution of esoteric knowledge in the West. Those who maintained such knowledge were forced to do so clandestinely. Thus the alchemists had to disguise their true purpose. The Rosicrucians, who also continued the tradition, had to hide behind the story that they had all scattered to the East. That describes their state of consciousness, not their physical locale. Guenon claimed to trace some evidence of esoteric teaching in Protestantism, although even Jacob Boehme ran afoul of the authorities. From there, the trail went dark, apart from occasional clues. Nevertheless, the Tradition can never disappear; there will always be a remnant. Since Guenon’s death, there have been other developments, of which he was unaware, that alter the picture. First of all, there is the remarkable case of Vladimir Solovyov who had his own realizations of Divine Sophia.

>>16851866
Vladimir Soloviev debunked Buddhism by observing that it's identical to nihilism

Redpill me on Vladimir Solviev

Anyone know where to start with Solovyov? He seems like a very interesting thinker but I have no familiarity with his works. Anybody have any thoughts on his philosophy and religious/mystical ideas?