/lit/ - Literature

>"retvrn to tradition"
>is a freemason

>>23136913
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I'm still confused about what this guy even believed and why he converted to Islam. Why did he do that if he thought Tradition was impossible in the modern world?

This nigga is great and all but why does he never define in any of his terms? What exactly is metaphysics and “intellectual intuition”?

>>22866800
chill fucktard the core truths of all true religion are the same

>the west has been declining ever since the knights templar have been abolished
What did he mean by this?

Do Roman Catholics exist in the Traditionalist School?

Why doesn't anyone start a religion around Rene Guenon (pbuh)?

Is that Guenon guy the real deal or just a meme

Why is this guy so appealing?

Why did he consider christianity and islam to be valid traditions that preserved the "primordial truths"? Both religions go against all of his major premises, not to mention the contradiction in being christian/muslim while believing that other religions too possess the truth.

What was the significance of ritual to him? What did he believe the origin of religion to be? Why did he believe made-up religions to be invalid?

Where should i start with him? The crisis of the modern world?

>"The word varna in its original sense means 'colour,' and some people have attempted to see in this a proof, or at least an indication, of the supposed fact that the distinction between the castes was originally founded upon racial differences ; but this is not a tenable view, for the same word bears by extension the meaning of 'quality' in general, whence its analogical use to denote the particular nature of a being, or what might be called its 'individual essence' ; and it is in fact the latter which determines caste, racial considerations intervening merely as one of the elements capable of exercising an influence upon the constitution of the individual nature."
what did he mean by this?

What did he/would he have thought of bergson

1. The Crisis of the Modern World
2. The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
3. Introduction To The Study Of The Hindu Doctrines
4. Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta
5. The Symbolism of the Cross
6. The Multiple States of the Being

René Guénon discord server:
https://discord.gg/DaYYrYGX

So what does he exactly mean by the Primordial Tradition? Is it supposed to be a tradition like those that we have today (hinduism, islam, christianity, etc.) but just the first one or is it something different?

>>20021864
/lit/ is a traditionalist islamic board fuck off brainlet

Can someone summarize Guénon's critique of materialism for me? In what essay does he discuss this the most?

"The rudeness of which you speak does not surprise me; that goes with everything else; when people have lost their tradition, they can only stoop more and more and from all points of view, until it ends in a catastrophe if they cannot get up in time for it. 'to avoid. Yes, as you say, everything is rigged today; we want to force people to live artificially in order to change them more easily into some sort of machine, and medicine surely has a big role to play in the realization of this diabolical plan. I often regret having neither the time nor the facility to examine the said medicine more closely with all the required details; it would be good to wish that there was someone who could and dare to undertake this task."
letter from Rene Guenon to Louis Cattiaux

I wish he had written a book on medicine like than on the calculus. Guenon would probably refuse to take the vaccine.

If, as must be done in this instance, the word atom be taken in its true sense of “ indivisible,” a sense which modern physicists no longer give to it, it may be said that an atom, since it cannot have parts, must also be without area ; now the sum of lements devoid of area can never form an area ; if atoms fulfil their own definition, it is then impossible for them to make up bodies. To this well-known and more-over decisive chain of reasoning, another may also be added, employed by Shankaracharya in order to refute atomism 1 : two things can come into contact with one another either by a part of themselves or by the whole ; for atoms, devoid as they are of parts, the first hypothesis is inadmissible ; thus only the second hypothesis remains, which amounts to saying that the aggregation of two atoms can only be realized by their coincidence purely and simply, whence it clearly follows that two atoms when joined occupy no more space than a single atom and so forth indefinitely: so, as before, atoms, whatever their number, will never form a body. Thus atomism represents nothing but sheer impossibility, as we pointed out when explaining the sense in which heterodoxy is to be understood ; [...]

Guenon is brilliant on this topic. Any others like him?

Why did so many traditionalists convert to Islam, when Hinduism already supports perennial philosophy in the bhagavad gita?

Why does he make people seethe so hard? The way in which people react when his name is mentioned, really makes you think... Maybe he has a point... In any case, I want to see it for myself. With what book should I start?