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What authors should one read before starting with Guenon?

>> No.16596858
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>>16596850
Idk but this is very funny desu

>> No.16597029

>>16596850
Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas mainly

>> No.16597082

>>16596850
Read Upanishads
Adi Shankara
Lao Tzu
Plato
Aristotle
Plotinus
Proclus
Pseudo-Dionysius
Augustine
Ibn Arabi
Aquinas
Meister Eckhart
Henri Bergson
There's a good book by the Classics of Western Spirituality on Sufism worth reading too
They also have Dionysius and Eckhart

>> No.16597099

>>16597082
This is an excellent reply. There is alot there, and it will take time to clear through that, but to get the most out of guenon, this is the list.

>> No.16597319

>>16596850
Don't read gaynon

>> No.16597518

>>16596850
What is he about

>> No.16597524

>>16597518
Refuting all comers

>> No.16597689

HENRI
MASSIS