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Anonymous Mon Feb 22 12:05:56 2021 No.17617107 [Reply] [Original]

Is there any fiction that can be described as Guenonian?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 12:08:56 2021 No.17617128 >>17617107 No

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 12:10:30 2021 No.17617140 File: 11 KB, 645x773, 1558194754261.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Guénon's books are fiction

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 12:11:15 2021 No.17617147 >>17617107 Guenon was an antimodern antisemite and you're reading him? YIKES

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 12:12:14 2021 No.17617155 >>17617147 >Guenon was an antimodern antisemite Based, I don't see the issue? >>17617140 No

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 12:40:08 2021 No.17617444 >>17617107 Hypothetically what sort of story would that even be like? Some hero with mystical powers goes on a quest to defeat a homosexual robot army bent on world conquest?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 12:42:40 2021 No.17617471 >>17617107 I kind of gather something like Hesse, but with more literal religious themes, like Goethe's lily thing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 12:46:51 2021 No.17617512 The Invisibles might be Guenonian. It's chaotic and dissolute like the Kali-Yuga itself, but it all leads to the next phase of the cosmic cycle in the end.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 12:48:21 2021 No.17617530 File: 3.81 MB, 6161x5009, guenon.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17617444 I don't know, did Guenon ever write anything about how the transition of Kali-Yuga to Satya-Yuga would look like? Haven't finished Reign of Quantity.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 12:51:18 2021 No.17617568 Henri Bosco was supposedly big into Guénon. So was Daumal (but also into Gurdjieff...).

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 13:01:47 2021 No.17617687 >>17617155 probably also a white supremacist, that is why he was a muslim and believed that "aryans" aren't a race

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 13:02:50 2021 No.17617701 >>17617147 >>17617687 oops, it was for the other one

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 13:03:21 2021 No.17617710 >>17617687 Even the best get it wrong sometimes

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 13:04:38 2021 No.17617730 >>17617710 Making a big deal of race is materialism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 13:05:50 2021 No.17617744 >>17617730 But the good kind

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 22 14:00:22 2021 No.17618265 >>17617107 Yeah DC comics