/lit/ - Literature

>>23134743
Yea, you could try The Crisis of the Modern World by Rene Guenon. It's only 120 pages and it was written in a way that makes it accessible to a general audience.

In the sixth century before the Christian era considerable changes took place for one reason or another among almost all peoples, changes which however varied in character from country to country. In some cases it was a readaptation of the tradition to conditions other than those previously prevailing, a readaptation that was accomplished in a rigorously orthodox sense. This is what occurred for example in China, where the doctrine, primitively established as a single whole, was then divided into two clearly distinct parts: Taoism, reserved for an elite and comprising pure metaphysics and the traditional sciences of a properly speculative nature, and Confucianism, which was common to all without distinction, and whose domain was that of practical and mainly social applications. Among the Persians there seems also to have been a readaptation of Mazdaism, for this was the time of the last Zoroaster. In India on the other hand this period saw the rise of Buddhism, that is to say of a revolt against. the traditional spirit, amounting to a denial of all authority and resulting· in a veritable anarchy, in the etymological sense, of 'absence of principle', both in the intellectual and social realms. It is a curious fact that there are no monuments in India dating from before this period, the orientalists having tried to make this fact tell in favor of their tendency to find the origins of everything in Buddhism, the importance of which they strangely exaggerate. The explanation of the fact is nevertheless quite simple; it is that all earlier constructions were of wood and have therefore left no trace. Such a change in the mode of construction must have corresponded however to a profound modification of the general conditions governing the existence of the people concerned.

>finish pic related
holy shit why didn't i read this sooner

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/viewpdf/default.aspx%3Farticle-title%3DA_Material_Civilization_by_Rene_Guenon.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwinsM-JifPzAhXWiv0HHYj7D_8QFnoECAUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2tho1f_sQS68BUb6N2VqFo

>>19314230
just read it... I know that is not directly related but all of these kind of questions would not exist if people would understand the deeper problems of our modern civilization and craft is related to all of this.

>>19257296
"Those who will succeed in overcoming all these obstacles, and triumphing over the hostility of an environment opposed to all spirituality, will doubtless be few in number; but let it be said once more that it is not numbers that count, for we are here in a domain whose laws are quite different from those of matter. There is therefore no cause for despair, and, even were there no hope of achieving any visible result before the modern world collapses under some catastrophe, this would still be no valid reason for not undertaking a work whose scope extends far beyond the present time. Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error, and darkness can win the day only in appearance and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibriums must perforce contribute toward the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of ·truth; their motto should be the one formerly used by certain initiatic organizations of the West: Vincit omnia Veritas."

>>19213858
here is the starting point of your path

His works have potential to turn the whole modern age upside down. Really loved his ideas about modernity and religions.
Gai Eaton and him are enough to understand religion and modernity

Who can I read that's like Guenon but without the magic and Eastern shit?

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>>18632086
No but I have one that can refute your thesis

Is there anything like Guenon for atheists? I like his ideas but I can't take the spiritualism shit seriously

I have a copy of nick land coming in soon as well. Considering ordering Gadaffi’s green book and anti-oedipus as well

>>17760779

Is it basically an earlier and or inferior version of Revolt Against The Modern World?

I've already read that one, I need to know if it's a useful supplement to have Guenon's break down as opposed to just having Evolas.

>start reading pic related
>think Guenon was ahead of his time with this book
>Guenon argues that we live in the dark age denominated as the Kali Yuga
>For Guenon, the Greeks had the most important and advanced civilization in the history of the Western world
>Guenon BTFOs historians who deny previous ancient Eastern civilizations for being labelled as "legendary" and not "classical" like the Romans
>To Guenon, the so called "Dark Age" which were the Middle Ages was a normal effect in time caused by the expansion of the Judeo Christian religion and its people to Europa
>To Guenon, the Middle Ages was the last time that Europe had a strong sense of tradition and spirituality in its people
>The so called Age of enlightenment was the beginning of the modern crisis, since society focused on practice over observation creating a disbalance, and thus killed the previous traditional spirit of the people leaving reason as the ultimate goal in life
>Reason was also the cause behind profane philosophy
>To Guenon modern philosophy is nothing but mere speculations which are based on pure rational thinking. And not from "supra-human" (from that which is beyond human reason) knowledge which can only be acquired with tradition

What should I expect from this?

>I could say more but now is not the time
>there's more to this but there's no space in this book for that
>the end is nigh
>Atlantis was real
>sports are bad
>let's go back to the middle ages