{"id":16567,"date":"2022-09-03T15:11:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T19:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=16567"},"modified":"2022-09-04T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T18:37:44","slug":"16567","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=16567","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Metaphysics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guenon\u2019s\u00a0Man and his Becoming according to the Vedanta<\/em>\u00a0will draw the attention of the well trained and qualified reader. Of course, it will also become the source of misunderstandings for a certain category of \u201cthird rate\u201d critics and intellectuals who oscillate between platitudes and political and spiritual fancies. ~ Julius Evola<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rene Guenon was not happy with Nicholson’s translation of Man and his Becoming<\/em>. A literal word for word translation of a text that may read well in French, may not result in smooth English. Many people have informed me that they have had trouble understanding Man and his Becoming<\/em>. That may be due, in part, not to the difficulty of the concepts but rather to the confusion of the translation. Hence, I have begun a slow-motion translation of the most important sections of his major works of metaphysics.<\/p>\n

This is the beginning of a slow motion translation, still in progress, of the fundamental texts of metaphysics as described by Rene Guenon. These texts are mostly found in the following books:<\/p>\n