Four sample chapters from the new translation of Man and his Becoming by Rene Guenon. It includes a brief introduction, an appendix, and a glossary. Continue reading
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Defects and Accidents
Most contemporary thought in the West consider the individual to be the entire the human being, and the understanding of the “Person” is restricted to the individual. Continue reading
Astral Symbolism
It must be clearly understood, that when mention is made of the Spheres of the Sun and of the Moon, it is never the sun and the moon as visible stars, belonging purely to the corporeal realm, that are referred to, but rather the universal principles which these stars represent after their own fashion in the sensible world. Continue reading
The Rectification
If our contemporaries as a whole could see what it is that is guiding them and where they are really going, the modern world would at once cease to exist as such Continue reading
Everyone Else Knows Better
The Enlightenment liberal believes that if the disputing parties engage in a rational discussion of ideas, then they will come to a satisfactory conclusion. However, everyone else knows better. Continue reading
The Experience of Existence
Signs of deliverance: imperturbability, detachment, impassibility, the Eternal Now, the Presence of God. Continue reading
Principial Origin and Final Destiny
The final, and most difficult constraint to overcome, is ignorance. As a rational animal, there is ultimately one choice, the most important choice: the choice between good and evil. Since freedom is to act in accordance to one’s true nature as rational, only choosing the “good” is a free choice. Continue reading
Schuon vs Guenon
The true essence of everything always abides, though unmanifest in the inner depths of very Being, while its sensory qualities appear outwardly. For it is impossible that the Divine Ideas included in the intelligible world should be evanescent: to pretend that the content of Divine Science is evanescent would imply atheism. Continue reading
German Influence on Indology
When one is incapable of doing metaphysics, it is certainly better not to be concerned with it. Positivism seems to us still much preferable to the rantings of pseudo-metaphysics to the rantings of pseudo-metaphysics. The greatest mistake of the German orientalists is therefore to be unaware of their incomprehension, and to carry out works of interpretation which have no value, but which are imposed on all of Europe and very easily succeed in doing making themselves authoritative Continue reading
Laura and the Fedeli d’Amore
The Fedeli d’Amore represent Sophia — the transcendent intelligence, Madonna Intelligenza. or Divine Wisdom — under the guise of romantic poetry Continue reading