In the article “Conversions”, included in the collection Initiation and Spiritual Realization, he explains that the word can be taken in two totally different senses. Continue reading
The Conversion of Rene Guenon
Guenon and Tradition
Tradition, in the Guenonian sense, has nothing to do with the past in itself. Just because it happened yesterday does not make it therefore traditional. And it is not a reaction against modernity, nor a nostalgia for the past. Its expression today may appear that way, but that is because … Continue reading
Nietzsche and life-affirming religion
Nietzsche has done as much as anyone in undermining the Traditional spiritual roots of Western man in his division of religion into life-denying as exemplified in Christianity and life-affirming as exemplified in Paganism. The destruction of Christianity has not led to a life-affirming paganism, but rather to a paganism that … Continue reading
Manu: The kingdom will surely perish
From the laws of Manu. Continue reading
Pagan Philosophers and Church Fathers
The precise nature and even, in some senses, the width of the chasm which separated the [Pagan and Christian] religions can easily be mistaken if we take our ideas solely from political or ecclesiastical histories: still more, if we take them from more popular sources. Cultured people on both sides … Continue reading
All Soul’s Day
Around the second of November, I would like to avoid naming here the living, or rather to be concerned with them only insofar as they themselves are concerned with men who had already departed from life. A melancholy memory is not a simple dream, and nothing deep down is more … Continue reading
Evolution and the Order of Being
The fact the higher forms and types are manifested or revealed following the inferior ones by no means proves that they are the product or creation of the inferior realm. The order of being is not identical to the order of phenomena. The higher, more positive and fuller types and … Continue reading
Woman is the bearer of the sex-element
Woman is the bearer of the sex-element in this world. In man sex is more differentiated and specialized: in woman it is diffused through the whole tissue of the organism, through the whole structure of the soul. In man sexual attraction demands more immediate satisfaction than in woman, but he … Continue reading
Scientific Clarity and Assurance
What our fathers did through custom and feeling, we ourselves pursue it through reason and will, with the assurance and clarity of science. Continue reading
Tao and Logos
My teachings are very easy to understand and to practice; yet there is no one in the world who is able either to understand or to practice them. This is because my teachings have an originating principle and arise from an integrated system. This is not understood, so I am unknown. ~ Lao Tzu Continue reading