/lit/ - Literature

>>20270235
You should of called him an Islamophobe for hating Guenon

>>20270235
>What do I do now, /lit/? Is it worth reading?
It's Theosophy, meaning that it has no history before Blavatsky made it up and its sort of a haphazard jumble of different eastern ideas, some of which have little relation to the eastern idea they reference, it's mostly popular among boomers. Guenon BTFOs it pretty hard in his book on Theosophy, read it if you want the counter-theosophy perspective, you can check it out here

https://archive.org/details/reneguenon/1921-Theosophy-HistoryOfAPseudo-religion/

Its maybe worth checking out as a curiosity or oddity, but there are much better writers on esoterism (Guenon or Hanegraaff), and the actual eastern source writings are better too.

>>Talks about how Guenon is an alt-right influence(?) and how his thought is influencing Putin through Dugin, and how Putin's evil because he "obviously doesn't believe in Karma"
Both people on the left and right have appreciated and been influenced by Guenon, maybe people on the right tend to like him more but he's not any sort of 'alt-right ideologue', his perspective is kind of antithetical to all modern politics

Esoteric bookstores are the best, it's shame you got a more leftie one since the best ones are the ones that flirt with fringe shit for the sake of fringe

I would read it, TS is fun and worth mining for insights. More people should read HPB just for fun.

>>20270295
I'm more interested in Evola's book on theosophy

>>20270235
>Feel bad
>Want to leave
>Buy his cheapest book as an apology and run
You coward like a bitch, OP. You should have called him a fag, turn 360 degrees, and walk out.

Theosophy is pretty cool to read about now. They helped popularize all that Hyperborea and Atlantis stuff, and the idea of "root races" like the Aryans, and combined it with (distorted, inaccurate) information from Eastern religions, which people were learning about for the first time. It was like the prototype of the New Age movement and the 60s counterculture with hippies getting into Hinduism and shit, and also kind of feels like the prototype of geek culture, influencing all the fantasy fiction and RPGs and video games since.

>>20270564
>which people were learning about for the first time.
>in the late 19th century

>>20270583
He's not far off, oriental studies really only picked up mid century and only became widely available and a craze in the late 19th

Deussen's floruit was 1870s and on, Muller's really popular stuff wasn't that much earlier, Sacred Books of the East publication started 1880 or so

>>20270295
Tbh I DO like Atkinson at the very least

>>20270592
Maybe anon's talking about Eurocentrism in which he's pedantic and nobody on 4chan gives a fuck about being problematic.

>>20270406
I just got an image of some late millenial kid with a Beatle haircut moon walking out of a bookstore. Thanks.

>>20270564
Could've been a kino religion if they dropped all the autism about the masters and took more from Neoplatonism