Guenon’s conversion and relationship to Islam, from the man himself. Continue reading
Guenon and Islam
Entheogens
It should be clear that the theory behind the use of enthogens for spiritual “enlightenment” is deeply flawed. It assumes that such enlightenment involves a particular experience, or set of experiences, that are somehow to be distinguished from all other experiences. This idea comes from the confusion of the psychic and the spiritual. ~ Rene Guenon, The Reign of Quantity Continue reading
Letters from Guenon to Guido de Giorgio (I)
This is the first of Rene Guenon‘s letters to Guido de Giorgio . It shows how things were done prior to Internet blogs and e-mail. The letters were written in French; Guenon was not fluent enough in Italian to write in that language. The criticism of Evola is pretty severe, … Continue reading
Changing of the Guard
The third dimension of history understood as the impact of imaginal world on human history. Wars, migrations, expansions, conversions, and so on, need to be seen in the light of this higher dimension, above and beyond the material, biological, economic, and ideological causes. We have seen that Julius Evola attributes … Continue reading
The Tangible Immediacy of the Present
This is final section of an article by Guido de Giorgio, titled The Instant and Eternity, first published in Diorama Filosofico in 1939. How many of Dante’s admirers are there who are not content in glorifying his verses or expression—something absolutely exterior and superficial—but who in applying the doctrine, the … Continue reading
The Meaning of the Past
This is third section of an article by Guido de Giorgio, titled The Instant and Eternity, first published in Diorama Filosofico in 1939. I am constantly struck by so many people today who only perceive darkness, ignorance, or intolerance in the past. They tell me about dictators oppressively their people, … Continue reading
Evola: The Second Rumi?
Some souls learn nothing except from human masters; others have learned everything from invisible guides known only to themselves. ~ Shihaboddin Yahya Sohravardi Fr. Frank Gelli, a Roman by birth, now an Anglican priest living in a predominantly Muslim section of London, recently made available on Amazon an e-book, Julius … Continue reading
The Past as Death and Life
This is the second section of Guido de Giorgio‘s essay The Instant and Eternity. Here de Giorgio compares modern and traditional man. He brings in many themes previously covered here: the continuity of the past; the notion of depth in the flow of history, i.e., “subterranean history”; the past understood … Continue reading
The Myth of the Future
This is part of an article by Guido de Giorgio, titled The Instant and Eternity, first published in Diorama Filosofico in 1939. We can say that the sacred is distinguished from the profane in what is essentially oriented toward the past to fix the stages of a procession which necessarily … Continue reading
Hell and other lovely thoughts
I decided to leave, neither forgiven nor condemned. Perhaps it was Minos, trying to determine my place in hell. Continue reading