/RG/ Rene Guenon General

[guenonposter !!ZaMilZJb7x4 No.14615888]

Absolutely shameful the lack of Guenon(pbuh) threads recently.

Lit used to be a Guenon(pbuh) board with great intellectuals discussing how a great scholar rose and retroactively refuted all of western philosophy.

Where to start?

In English: https://archive.org/details/reneguenon

Chart made by another great poster:
https://i.warosu.org/data/lit/img/0114/61/1531605382277.png

[Anonymous No.14616139]

based

[Anonymous No.14616298]

>when the opium hits

[Anonymous No.14616413]

>a great metaphysical mathematician
>well-versed in sacred geometry
>has deep knowledge of the entirety of the Canon, both East and West
>reinstituted true metaphysics in the West
>knows Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Sanskrit, Chinese, Latin, Ancient Greek and more
>single-handedly refuted centuries upon centuries of invalid Western thought
>is revered and venerated as a saint (or even more) by both Easterners and Westerners alike
>achieved Unity with God on his deathbed
Peace be upon him.

[Anonymous No.14616435]

>>14616413
A shame he was retroactively refuted by Whitehead

[Anonymous No.14616451]

>>14616435
Whiteheadians even divised a form of Perennialism dubbed 'ultimism'
https://www.iep.utm.edu/reli-div/#SH2d

[Anonymous No.14616544]

>>14616451
>ultimism
sounds like something a bugman named.

[Anonymous No.14616593]

Unfortunately Guenon is extremely focused on the Advaita Vedanta tradition, which is considered "cryptobuddhism" by most of his fellow Hindus and by all of modern scholarship. He is what is known as a "neovedantist."

He should be read with a grain of salt when it comes to Hinduism, but his cultural commentaries are interesting.

[Anonymous No.14616601]

>>14616593
Also beware, Guenon's primary disciple Frithjof Schuon is a bit of a weirdo -

On October 11th 1991, Frithjof Schuon, the leader of an international religious order, was indicted on the felony charge of child molestation. committed under "cult pressure and influence". The indictment, passed down by a five member Grand Jury, headed by Lucy Cherbas, stated:

"that Frithjof Schuon... did perform fondling or touching [on three girls] 15 years of age, 14 years of age and 13 years of age, respectively, with the intent to arouse or satisfy sexual desires of Frithjof Schuon, in violation of I.C. 35-42 43. [And that] said persons were compelled to submit to touching by force or imminent threat of force, to wit: by undue cult influences and cult pressures, in violation of 35-42-4-8."

Jesus Garcia Varela, a high ranking inner circle member of the cult, had been investigated by the Louisville Police in 1991 for nude photos of his 2 young daughters. He escaped prosecution of this episode by claiming that it was a common practice in Spain to visually record a girl's puberty.

Michael Fitzgerald's son was present at the Gatherings. The boy, then perhaps 14, had been made to watch his mother and her sister, Jennifer Casey, dance nude for Schuon at one of the Gatherings.

[Anonymous No.14616619]

Here's a painting of Schuon. He was obsessed with his own nudity. His ex-wife went public in 2018 with descriptions of the movements, saying he was an egomaniacal nudist who thought that it was a "blessing" for children and strangers to see his old man penis. And of course for him to rub up against those children and strangers with his penis.

Be careful about traditionalism, it's got some real weirdos in it!

[Anonymous No.14616732]

>>14616619
wtf is this picture...

[Anonymous No.14616768]

>>14616413
based

[Anonymous No.14616785]

>>14616435
Rene Guenon (pbuh) ended Whitehead's whole philosophical project in 5 paragraphs

The same trend is noticeable in the scientific realm: research here is for its own sake far more than for the partial and fragmentary results it achieves; here we see an ever more rapid succession of unfounded theories and hypotheses, no sooner set up than crumbling to give way to others that will have an even shorter life— a veritable chaos amid which one would search in vain for anything definitive, unless it be a monstrous accumulation of facts and details incapable of proving or signifying anything. We refer here of course to speculative science, insofar as this still exists; in applied science there are on the contrary undeniable results, and this is easily understandable since these results bear directly on the domain of matter, the only domain in which modern man can boast any real superiority. It is therefore to be expected that discoveries, or rather mechanical and industrial inventions, will go on developing and multiplying more and more rapidly until the end of the present age; and who knows if, given the dangers of destruction they bear in themselves, they will not be one of the chief agents in the ultimate catastrophe, if things reach a point at which this cannot be averted?

Be that as it may, one has the general impression that, in the present state of things, there is no longer any stability; but while there are some who sense the danger and try to react to it, most of our contemporaries are quite at ease amid this confusion, in which they see a kind of exteriorized image of their own mentality. Indeed there is an exact correspondence between a world where everything seems to be in a state of mere ‘becoming’, leaving no place for the changeless and the permanent, and the state of mind of men who find all reality in this ‘becoming’, thus implicitly denying true knowledge as well as the object of that knowledge, namely transcendent and universal principles. One can go even further and say that it amounts to the negation of all real knowledge whatsoever, even of a relative order, since, as we have shown above, the relative is unintelligible and impossible without the absolute, the contingent without the necessary, change without the unchanging, and multiplicity without unity; ‘relativism’ is self-contradictory, for, in seeking to reduce everything to change, one logically arrives at a denial of the very existence of change; this was fundamentally the meaning of the famous arguments of Zeno of Elea.

[Anonymous No.14616792]

>>14616785
However, we have no wish to exaggerate and must add that theories such as these are not exclusively encountered in modern times; examples are to be found in Greek philosophy also, the ‘universal flux’ of Heraclitus being the best known; indeed, it was this that led the school of Elea to combat his conceptions, as well as those of the atomists, by a sort of reductio ad absurdum. Even in India, something comparable can be found, though, of course, considered from a different point of view from that of philosophy, for Buddhism also developed a similar character, one of its essential theses being the ‘dissolubility of all things ’. These theories, however, were then no more than exceptions, and such revolts against the traditional outlook, which may well have occurred from time to time throughout the whole of the Kali-Yuga, were, when all is said and done, without wider influence; what is new is the general acceptance of such conceptions that we see in the West today.

It should be noted too that under the influence of the very recent idea of ‘progress’, ‘philosophies of becoming’ have, in modern times, taken on a special form that theories of the same type never had among the ancients: this form, although it may have multiple varieties, can be covered in general by the name ‘evolutionism’. We need not repeat here what we have already said elsewhere on this subject; we will merely recall the point that any conception allowing for nothing other than ‘becoming’ is thereby necessarily a ‘naturalistic’ conception, and, as such, implies a formal denial of whatever lies beyond nature, in other words the realm of metaphysics— which is the realm of immutable and eternal principles. We may point out also, in speaking of these anti-metaphysical theories, that the Bergonian idea of pure duration’ corresponds exactly with that dispersion in instantaneity to which we alluded above; a pretended intuition modeled on the ceaseless flux of the things of the senses, far from being able to serve as an instrument for obtaining true knowledge, represents in reality the dissolution of all possible knowledge.

[Anonymous No.14616798]

>>14616792
This leads us to repeat an essential point on which not the slightist ambiguity must be allowed to persist: intellectual intuition, by which alone metaphysical knowledge is to be obtained, has absolutely nothing in common with this other ‘intuition’ of which certain contemporary philosophers speak: the latter pertains to the sensible realm and in fact is sub-rational, whereas the former, which is pure intelligence, is on the contrary supra-rational. But the moderns, knowing nothing higher than reason in the order of intelligence, do not even conceive of the possibility of intellectual intuition, whereas the doctrines of the ancient world and of the Middle Ages, even when they were no more than philosophical in character, and therefore incapable of effectively calling this intuition into play, nevertheless explicitly recognized its existence and its supremacy over all the other faculties. This is why there was no rationalism before Descartes, for rationalism is a specifically modern phenomenon, one that is closely connected with individualism, being nothing other than the negation of any faculty of a supra- individual order. As long as Westerners persist in ignoring or denying intellectual intuition, they can have no tradition in the true sense of the word, nor can they reach any understanding with the authentic representatives of the Eastern civilizations, in which everything, so to speak, derives from this intuition, which is immutable and infallible in itself, and the only starting-point for any development in conformity with traditional norms

[Anonymous No.14616809]

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[Anonymous No.14616844]

>>14616809
nailed it