/lit/ - Literature

>>18370555
"Yet since the wise should know all that is to come, it is right
that you should not be ignorant of something else. A time will
come when it appears that the Egyptians have worshipped God
with pure mind and sincere devotion in vain. All their holy
worship will turn out to be without effect and will bear no fruit.
For the gods will withdraw from earth to heaven and Egypt will
be deserted. The land which used to be the seat of religion will
be abandoned by the gods and become void of their presence."
>As the whole of nature is akin, and the soul has learned everything, nothing prevents a man, after recalling one thing only—a process men call learning—discovering everything else for himself, if he is brave and does not tire of the search, for searching and learning are, as a whole, recollection. We must, therefore, not believe that debater’s (Guenon) argument, for it would make us idle, and fainthearted men like to hear it, whereas my argument makes them energetic and keen on the search.
By seeking, like the Righteous Sufferer, all the gates shall be opened.
>‘‘No, no! It is I myself who fashioned a vessel to cross to the precinct of God; And there, I shall launch the thousand-foot ship and sail to the Staircase of Fire!

I'm not talking about Protestantism or your own (idiotes) truth but the death and revival of rites and theurgy (humanly guided initiation), the intellectual tradition is perfectly alive in the PERFECT preservation of Plato's works and the Exegatai, and all the doctrines of the Gods are persevered in stone and the inspired books. To read Plato and the Enneads and all the Platonists is even itself the greatest Initiation, and to do exegesis is prayer, for God will guide he who directs his eye to the heart's most deepest intuition. Like, wtf do you think Teletarchs are Guenon? Imhotep was not initiated by a man, nor was Orpheus or Zoroaster.

>>15818556
has your arguments ended
are only you left with Cyrilian insults because you have no real arguments against Julian?
But yes, if you stick to Maximus the Confessor and throw out the pseud guenon, and actually read the "neo"platonists directly, maybe you'll become a based christian like he and the Areopagite. You're clearly knowledgeable and could perhaps influence the church to a better direction.

>>15758267
>dialectic
>constrained
God is the Unity of the Same and the Other, of the Limited and Unlimited, of the Monad and the Dyad, of Love and Strife.
With only the Monad there would only be him.
With only the Dyad there would be nothing, not even him.
Without the Unified there would be no reconciliation, no redemption, only unending strife; that is true dialectic. Life IS movement/change, the nature of Soul is the freedom to fall and the mercy of god is for us to rise again and lift others up with us, if you Will it. Freedom to love, not its compulsion (because that is not love, nor is it life), is at the heart of creation.

no homo

>>14256428
>He was the Jordan Peterson of his time.
this is unironically true
it is true because Peterson actually had some nice things to say before he started talking politics and bloody postmådernists, likewise Guenon invalidated himself in becoming Muslim, and he was poorlyread in actually ancient myths (especially European and far eastern religion).
He, like peterson, sit in-between idiots like "theoSOPHISTS", or Huxley, and actual sages of our age like Algis Uždavinys.
Peterson's intellectual cowardice his is greatest flaw, he regurgitates the same shit nonstop because he's afraid to step into the void, he has both feet in familiar light.

In time this cycle of time will dissipate, just like the one before, and the one before that, and to be reborn, forever.

>>13763889
it likely means (discounting 95% of trannys who are just delusional) that their soulmate is a tranny too, but of the other sex

it has been done before

read the eddas
embrace the last path

Why?
he's admitting to have been an edgy fedora tipping cunt as a kid
how is this bad
tbhfamalam

>At 11 years old I didn't have fucking clue wtf was going on
I watched and fapped to "porn" (too retarded to actually find anything good on the internet) by age 9
euphorically bullied christians on youtube at age 10 while autistically learning everything about cosmology (everything but the actual math); drawn to youtube philosophy and skim-reading the ancients on wikipedia around age 11-12 onwards
full blown commie (naive post-scarcity "technocrat") at age 13
then around the same time came the oneitis, insomnia, and existential nihilism
rip adolescence

what I'm trying to say is, who the fuck knew nothing at age 11
i was ready to kill myself cause of muh capitalism, starving kids, and relativistic existential dread before I even knew how to spell properly

were you some Mormon not allowed to play video games or watch movies?

>tfw the goal of all mystical traditions is liberation from the rounds of earthly existence
Only for those unwilling to sacrifice what it takes.