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What's the justification for Guenon's insistence that you NEEEEED an initiation, and without one you basically cannot make spiritual progress. The only thing I gathered from him is that it confers some kind of vague woo woo "spiritual influence" which jumpstarts your spiritual journey. But if jnana yoga (the path of knowledge) is the highest yoga then why would knowledge be limited by some initiatic ritual. Why can't I just come to know metaphysical truths through contemplation without going through an initiation?