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
Category Archives: 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
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
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
Evola and Guenon
In an interview conducted in the mid 1960s—Julius Evola: A Justified Pessimism—Evola provided a précis of his life’s work. He answered all the questions very simply and it demonstrates how little his ideas changed in the preceding 40 years. This is how he answered the question about the influence of … Continue reading
Homage
It seems appropriate to pay homage to some esotericists and mythologists of the XXth century for their erudition and the examples they set. René Guénon was an early student of Theosophy as well as Gnostic and Masonic teachings. He eventually turned to the traditional spiritual paths, discerning the Primordial Tradition … Continue reading