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Was Guenon a flat-earther?

>> No.17190246

>>17190241
Yes

>> No.17190291

>>17190241
No, but he was a no-negative-numberer. He may also have been a (symbolic) geocentrist.

>> No.17190339

>>17190241
He was a hollow-earther (Agartta)

>> No.17190399

>>17190246
>>17190291
>>17190339
He would say that the three could be true (sybolicaly) at different levels.

>> No.17190404

>>17190241
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HIS FACE IS SO DUSGUSTING I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE HIS MOUSTACHE IS LIKE A SLUG AND HIS EXPRESSION IS EATING MY SOUL GO AWAY GO AWAY GO AWAY GO AWAY

>> No.17190405

>>17190241
No.

>> No.17190417

>>17190339
Are you sure, I thought that he thought that Agartha was symbolical of traditional knowledge itself that had become hidden during the Kali Yuga. Not an actual place in the centre of the physical Earth.

>> No.17190452

>>17190241
>and if we consider the implications, it is perhaps not so strange after all that those who control the modern public discourse insist on the exclusive validity of the spherical conception of the terrestrial surface (we have spoken elsewhere of gradations of symbolism, which, far from ruling each other out in fact are complementary); to strictly delimit one's conceptions it to cut one off from the Unlimited and its manifold manifestations in whatever mode. Indeed, the ancients were well aware that a certain spiritual (we must strictly distinguish such terms from "Neo-spiritualism") gateway exists around the planets periphery, and that the planets farthest reach of traversable land forms a hallowed place as it were, forming the site of the Hyperborean revelation, and certain Akkadian texts speak of a connection to the southernmost continent as well. "The Gate of Auspiciousness, is found where heaven, ice and land meet" says one Taoist text1. Likewise in the Hindu tradition, it is said in one of the Itihasas that the earth is wide and four-cornered like a carpet or hide2, this itself lending it to a deeper symbolism, the domain or rug of Hiranyagarbha (the manifested contingent world), being that which men of Knowledge "rolls up as if it were piece of hide" in order that "there will be an end of misery"3

>1) Fso-Hing, Wojujuan-Gaguo, IV, 6
>2) Rāmāyaṇa, Sundara Kanda
>3) Śvetāśvataropaniṣad 19-20

>> No.17190637

>>17190241
No, he was a long-facer.

>> No.17191488

>>17190452
kek

>> No.17192960

>>17190452
I knew it. Guenon was a postmodernist.

>> No.17193263

>>17190417
Where does he discuss this?

>> No.17193276

>>17193263
The King of the World

>> No.17193304

>>17193276
Thx anon, been wanting to read that. Do you need to have read the Ossendowski book before it, or it just helps?

>> No.17193330

>>17193304
It probably helps but I did fine without it. I had read about some of the subjects discussed before though.

>> No.17193340

Why did he believe gemstones were more common in the past?

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17193455

>>17190241
Both bro.
Behold, Bhu-Mandala

>> No.17193564

>>17193304
You should read the Ossendowski book anyway, because it's pretty amazing.

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17193611

>>17192960
that's not Guénon's writing but some anon aping his style

>> No.17193616

>>17193564
So I heard, I had a phase where I was fascinated with the White Army / russian civil war and had my eye on it. Passed on an old edition translated into my mother tongue that I found in a used bookstore long ago, and now I can’t find a used copy of the book translated into my language anywhere (and I refuse to read it in english). Feels bad man.

>> No.17193627

>>17193611
*apeing