The Gospels were written, not by members of the religious communities, but rather by a Greco-Roman cultural and intellectual class. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Rene Guenon
The True Myth
Mythology and Sacred History in C S Lewis, J R R Tolkien, Joseph Cambpell, and Rene Guenon. Continue reading
The Reality of Existence
At the intuitive stage, existence is not known as an object from the outside, but rather by the knower being inseparably existence itself. Continue reading
Men without Qualities
People described as Traditionalists … only have a sort of tendency or aspiration towards tradition without really knowing anything at all about it; this is the measure of the distance dividing the “traditionalist” spirit from the truly traditional spirit, for the latter implies a real knowledge, and indeed in a sense it is the same as that knowledge. Continue reading
Neo-Vedanta, Evil Spirits, and Don Quixote
Everyone else is like Don Quixote fighting imaginary battles in a world they no longer understand. Continue reading
Guénon lecteur de Nietzsche
Dans son roman, Soumission, Michel Houellebecq se réfère à une thèse de philosophie, soutenue à l’université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, signée Robert Rediger, et intitulée Guénon lecteur de Nietzsche. Au cours des derniers mois, j’ai fait de nombreux efforts pour traquer une copie. Continue reading
Guenon Reader of Nietzsche
In his novel, Submission, Michel Houellebecq refers to a philosophy dissertation, held at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, entitled Guénon lecteur de Nietzsche [Guenon Reader of Nietzsche] by Robert Rediger. Continue reading
Subration
Subration is the mental process whereby one disvalues some previously appraised object or content of consciousness because of its being contradicted by a new experience. A judgment about something is contradicted by a new experience when it is impossible to affirm both the previous judgment and what is learned or acquired in the new experience. Continue reading
Self-Realization through Knowledge
The being assimilates more or less completely everything of which it is conscious; indeed, there is no true knowledge in any domain whatsoever, other than that which enables us to penetrate into the intimate nature of things, and the degrees of knowledge consist precisely in the measure to which this penetration is more or less profound and results in a more or less complete assimilation. Continue reading
Why How What
Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought; But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory: ~ … Continue reading