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How do I get into Guenon?

What should I read while reading him?

Also any good audiobooks of him?

>> No.11760582

>>11760579
Also good follow up books or prelude books please.

>> No.11760585

>>11760579
i'm gay btw, if that matters

>> No.11760593

There's a poster here people have derogatorily begun calling "Guenonfag" who can help you. He knows everything there is to know about Guenon and consistently makes informative posts full of links and references about Guenon, Hinduism, and Sufism.

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>>11760585
OP here, I'm not gay.

>> No.11760611

>>11760579
Look ma, I posted it again! We just had this discussion, >>>11737207
Go read the original source material and quit hanging off the cock of Jordan-Peterson-from-a-hundred-years-ago.
Get this Lovecraft looking third-stringer off the board.

>>11760593
t. Guenonfag

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>>11760611
lol k

>> No.11760638

>>11760579
Start with 'Intro to Hindu etc' and then read in the order that interests you, generally following the chart more or less. It's a decent idea to also read primary eastern texts inbetween or alongside Guenon if you want to understand his books well. That way you can actually cross-reference what he is talking about with eastern texts and be like 'oh so this is what he's talking about' instead of taking everything he says about them as a given. Some shorter eastern texts that you can read inbetween/alongside him would be Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad-Gita, Dhammapada, Enclosed Garden of the Truth, Amitabha Sutra and the Heart Sutra. His books are great and there is a wealth of interesting and valuable information in them but he is best viewed as a gateway to the study of the actual texts/doctrines themselves instead of being the end-point himself IMO. If you like Guenon, Coomaraswamy is great too.

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>>11760579
>posts infograph on how to get into guenon while asking how to get into guenon
>what should i read while reading him ???
>how can i shirk reading him and do something easier?

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>>11760651
oy vey you caught me

nice image tho. never seen it before.

Also I didn't mean it to try and not read the books, I just wanted stuff to make me get more out of reading them for the first time, as well as follow up stuff for if I go back to read them again.

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>>11760582
Marty Glass is good to bridge the gap between the Traditionalists, and the Marxists and Postmodernists.

>> No.11761657

>>11760671
give us some of the main highlights

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>>11761657
It's kinda hard to give you highlights since he goes all over the place, but he pretty much says the assimilation of everything into Capital (Marx), the subversion of the real by the unreal (Baudrillard), and the mutation into Machinery (Ellul), along with the Reign of Quantity and the Fall into Time are all signs and manifestations of the Kali Yuga. I'll go ahead and post a chapter.
1/7

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>>11761776
2/7

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>>11761781
3/7

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>>11761785
4/7

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>>11761788
5/7

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>>11761800

>> No.11761854

>>11761776
I've never read Baudrillard. How does he distinguish between real/unreal? Is he more-or-less some sort of materialist that identifies the real with the "facts of life", with nature, and the unreal with the ideological presuppositions of consumerist/capitalist society, basically a kind of Rousseauan way of seeing things?

>> No.11761857

Start with the Upanishads