I had a different topic in mind, but I decided to address this thoughtful comment first: I think the issue some take with Christianity lies in the third of your criteria. The Christian religion seems to have been the fountainhead of a large number of subversive movements – though even … Continue reading
Category Archives: Tradition
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
Manu: The kingdom will surely perish
From the laws of Manu. Continue reading
Tradition and Orthodoxy
We added T. S. Eliot’s lectures titled After Strange Gods to the library because it is based on the theme of Tradition and Orthodoxy. It is interesting as far as it goes, but we prefer Guenon’s use of the same themes since Guenon develops them in a more thorough and … Continue reading
Spiritual Attitudes
One must live as one thinks, under pain of sooner or later thinking as one lives. ~ Paul Bourget In The Individual and the becoming of the World, Evola describes certain spiritual “attitudes”, a concept that will be developed and expanded in his later works as “spiritual types” and then … Continue reading
Orientations: The Religious Question
The nature of man is to be a cognitive, religious and sociable animal. All experience teaches us this; and, to my knowledge, nothing has contradicted this experience. ~ Joseph de Maistre, Study of Sovereignty Evola regarded Joseph de Maistre as standing on the same side of the barricade as himself. … Continue reading
Know Thyself
From the essay Know Thyself by Rene Guenon: We see that real knowledge is not based on the path of reason, but on the spirit and the whole being for it is none other than the realization of this being in all its states, which is the culmination of knowledge … Continue reading
The “Prophecies” of Rene Guenon (2)
See Part 1 It might seem odd that the concluding chapter on a book about Hindu doctrines is all about the “West”. Obviously, the intent is not for the West to become Hindu, but rather for the West to use the traditional doctrines as revealed in the Vedanta in order … Continue reading
The “Prophecies” of Rene Guenon
In the conclusion of Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines, originally published in 1921, Rene Guenon offers some predictions, which he emphasises are not to be considered “prophecies”, for the spiritual direction of the West. Continue reading