Louis Claude de Saint-Martin separated men into four categories. Man of Torrent The Man of Torrent is caught up in the world process. He accepts things as they appear. He identifies with his thoughts, feelings, likes, dislikes, and desires. However, since they are so variable, he lacks a stable identity, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Rene Guenon
Have you ever drunk the Silence?
Concentration without effort … is your life tossed to and fro by random events, thoughts, feelings? Or do you live life consciously? It begins with Silence … Rene Guenon claimed that at times when the authorities had lost the inner meaning of things, initiates would pose as jugglers or horse … Continue reading
The True Man
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” … Continue reading
The French Hermetic Tradition
Valentin Tomberg explains why he wrote his meditations on the major arcana of the Tarot in French: These letters were written in French, which is not the mother tongue of the author, because it is in France, and in France only, that a living literature on the Tarot has been … Continue reading
Finding Agarttha
In King of the World, Guenon documents Christianity’s loss of its primordial Tradition as the gradual break of the link to its spiritual centre. This break occurred in stages following the period called the Middle Ages. The first break came with the destruction of the Templars, since the Orders of … Continue reading
True Diversity
In East and West, Rene Guenon makes this fundamental claim: So long as western people imagine that there only exists a single type of humanity, that there is only one ‘civilization’, at different stages of development, no mutual understanding will be possible. The truth is that there are many civilizations, … Continue reading
The Triple Foundation of the Social Order
Rene Guenon assigned a triple foundation to the social order and political power: Metaphysical, Cosmological, Sociological Continue reading
Three Amigos
We recently mentioned Guenon’s role in bring awareness of Tradition to the West, but there are two other very important figures: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (AKC) and Julius Evola. Operating on three different continents, they kept in contact with Guenon via post, exchanging letters and even books. That was the precursor … Continue reading
The Absurdity of Traditionalism
The terms “Traditionalism” and “Traditionalist” have been gaining currency, reflecting an unfortunate and misleading trend. Presumably used to describe the intellectual ideas promulgated by Rene Guenon, then further developed by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Julius Evola, it instead treats those ideas as merely another perspective or school of philosophy. As such, … Continue reading