Part II ⇒ In La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition], Guido De Giorgio dedicates a section to the question of the reestablishment of a traditional society. It includes four chapters: The Priests, The Warriors, The Workers, and The King. This is the first part of the chapter on the priests. … Continue reading
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The Poet and the Sacred
The most ancient Traditions are expressed in the form of poetry as, for example, in the Hindu Mahabharata, which includes the Bhagavad Gita, or the poems of Homer. These poems were originally sung, rather than read, by the priests or wandering cantors. As we have pointed out, poetry reaches a … Continue reading
Letters from Guenon to Guido de Giorgio (VIII)
I was happy to see that you are completely in agreement with everything that I wrote in my last book; furthermore, the contrary would have really astonished me. The coincidences that you pointed out to me with the things that you yourself had written earlier are actually very remarkable; these agreements are certainly not the result of chance (besides which, I don’t believe at all). Continue reading
Letters from Guenon to Guido de Giorgio (VII)
What he takes for strength and lucidity, to our eyes impairs the value of too extensive knowledge. We are frightened that in a hundred small tidy pages, he claims to reveal the ultimate knowledge on the swastika, Aum and Manu, the luz and the Shekinah, the Graal, the Mages, and the Old Man of the Mountain, and enigmas without number. Even if he divines something correct here or there, what does the result matter without demonstration? And the proof that there is only one symbolic among the diversity of religions and philosophies? Continue reading
Letters from Guenon to Guido de Giorgio (VI)
In spite of everything that I know of Evola, especially from you, I was a little surprised by his refusal to use your article [for Ur]. I ask myself, under these conditions, why he is so insistent that I send him something, because he must certainly think what I would write would also be totally traditional, and consequently, would not satisfy him at all. Continue reading
Letters from Guenon to Guido de Giorgio (V)
the use of symbols comparable to Hermetic symbols is also totally general, and these symbols are not opposed at all to natural symbols, but, on the contrary, they are connected very normally. Furthermore, the symbolic character of all manifestation permits us to give to historic facts, as well as to all the rest, a value completely different from what they have in themselves. Continue reading
Letters from Guenon to Guido de Giorgio (III)
As for what Evola wrote you, I agree with him that there used to exist a Western initiatic tradition; but, unfortunately, I strongly doubt that it can be considered as still currently living. I certainly encounter, from time to time, the assertion of the existence of spiritual centres in this or that region of Europe, but, up until now, I have had no proof that that assertion is justifiable. Continue reading
Letters from Guenon to Guido de Giorgio (II)
It is clear here that we speak of the East and the West as two ideal types which, if they belong to the general character of the two cultures, cannot belong to their details. 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
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