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What does /lit/ think of Guénon ?

>> No.17076508

>>17076087
he was the most brilliant mind of the 20th century

>> No.17076584

>>17076087
>what does /lit/ think of the patron saint of /lit/?

>> No.17076606

>is born a christian bourgeois
>bears the name of the female ape
>gets bored with Christianity and secular Christianity, ie free masons, like any midwit low bourgeois
>dabbles in spiritualism, theosophy and perennialist mysticism
>becomes infatuated with vedism-mahayanism
>exactly the same retardation
>but it is exotic so it is true
>keeps shilling the idea that all religions are the same
>dies a muslism
>It's really only to make idiots feel righteous and like they are in the know
>"i am spiritual but not religious", says any generic whore
>100 years later, the people who spout the same nonsense are the bored midwit humanist bourgeois like soccer moms posting on Facebook craving for virtue signaling points

>> No.17076609

>>17076087
Unfortunate that he’s read and turned into memes by the spergs here

>> No.17076630

>>17076508
>>17076606
Haven't read him but he is very popular with a lot of "alt-right" people. What are his racial ideas like?

>> No.17076740

>>17076087
I don't

>> No.17076742

>>17076087
btfo'd by Alan Watts

>> No.17076780

>>17076630
He was not a racist and he condemned colonialism in his writings for imposing European laws and culture on foreigners

>> No.17076823

>>17076780
Why did he move to Egypt and convert to islam

>> No.17076852

>>17076087
why this image? guenon looks like a mentally disabled person on a rollercoaster here

>> No.17076911

>>17076823
Probably because while he had already been initiated into both Sufi and Taoist orders around two decades before he moved to Egypt, he still wanted to notch up his personal participation in eastern esoterism to the next level by moving somewhere where he could often participate in the real thing by attending the lessons of traditional Sufi teachers etc

>> No.17077384

>>17076742
how so?

>> No.17077432

>>17076609
/lit/ has made me unable to take a lot of writers seriously. Guenonfag is simultaneously hilarious and a complete intellectual disaster.