#Rene guenon

[castilestateofmind]

"In Tradition, every authority is fraudulent, every law is unjust and barbarous, every institution is vain and ephemeral unless they are ordained to the superior principle of Being, and unless they are derived from the above and oriented 'upward'".

-Julius Evola.

[nousrose]

No exoteric teaching is capable of providing true knowledge, which man must find only within himself, for in fact no knowledge can be acquired except through a personal comprehension. Without this comprehension, no teaching can lead to an effective result, and the teaching that awakens no personal resonance in the one who receives it cannot give any kind of knowledge. This is why Plato says that 'everything that a man learns is already within him'. All the experiences, all the external things that surround him, are only an occasion to help him become aware of what is within himself. This awakening he calls anamnesis, which signifies 'recollection'.

Know Thyself

Rene Guenon

[entheognosis]

What the modern world has striven after with all its strength, even when it has claimed in its own way to pursue science, is really nothing other than the development of industry and machinery; and in thus seeking to dominate matter and bend it to their service, men have only succeeded, as we said at the beginning of this book, in becoming its slaves. Not only have they limited their intellectual ambition—if such a term can still be used in the present state of things—to inventing and constructing machines, but they have ended by becoming in fact machines themselves.

Rene Guenon

The Crisis of the Modern World

[raisongardee]

"[…] au fond, la philosophie proprement dite n'a pas toute l'importance que certains voudraient lui attribuer, ou que du moins elle en a surtout en tant qu'elle peut être considérée comme "représentative" d'une certaine mentalité, plutôt que comme agissant effectivement et directement sur celle-ci ; du reste, une conception philosophique quelconque pourrait-elle avoir le moindre succès si elle ne répondait à quelques-unes des tendances prédominantes de l'époque où elle est formulée ? Nous ne voulons pas dire par là que les philosophes ne jouent pas, tout comme d'autres, leur rôle dans la déviation moderne, ce qui serait certainement exagéré, mais seulement que ce rôle est plus restreint en fait qu'on ne serait tenté de le supposer à première vue, et assez différent de ce qu'il peut sembler extérieurement; d'ailleurs, d'une façon tout à fait générale, ce qui est le plus apparent est toujours, suivant les lois mêmes qui régissent la manifestation, une conséquence plutôt qu'une cause, un aboutissement plutôt qu'un point de départ, et, en tout cas, ce n'est jamais là qu'il faut chercher ce qui agit de manière vraiment efficace dans un ordre plus profond, qu'il s'agisse en cela d'une action s'exerçant dans un sens normal et légitime, ou bien du contraire comme dans le cas dont nous parlons présentement."

René Guénon, Le Règne de la Quantité et les Signes des Temps, 1945.

[chaoticflames]

Darya Dugina

[eternal-echoes]

Charles Coulombe bashing the two favorite philosophers of the alt-right.

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I feel like it's misleading to call them heretics because they've both abandoned the faith. So wouldn't it be more accurate to call them apostates?

[rogue762mm]

Guénon said that the more we delve into the matter, the more divisive and opposing elements take root, thus conflict emerges; however, the more we elevate ourselves on pure spirituality, the more we reach unity, something uniquely achievable via the consciousness of universal principles and its immutable and eternal metaphysical laws.

[rosario-aurelius]

Aiwass in Theory and Practice

Thelema is a living religion based on the pursuit of one’s will with measured steps of devotion. In terms of religion, it is a new religion that embodies the philosophies of religions past by raising them up, tearing them down and creating a new foundation out of the bones of religions past. Its more primary concepts were presented in The Book of the Law. The Book of the Law, channeled and…

[eyeoftheheart]

“Will the modern world follow this fatal course right to the end, or will a new readjustment intervene once more, as it did in the case of the Greco-Latin decadence, before it reaches the bottom of the abyss into which it is being drawn? It would seem that a halt midway is no longer possible since, according to all the indications furnished by the traditional doctrines, we have in fact entered upon the last phase of the Kali-Yuga, the darkest period of this “dark age”, the state of dissolution from which it is impossible to emerge otherwise than by a cataclysm, since it is not a mere readjustment that is necessary at such a stage, but a complete renovation.

Disorder and confusion prevail in every domain and have been carried to a point far surpassing all that has been known previously, so that, issuing from the West, they now threaten to invade the whole world; we know full well that their triumph can never be other than apparent and transitory, but such are the proportions which it has reached, that it would appear to be the sign of the gravest of all the crises through which mankind has passed in the course of its present cycle. Have we not arrived at that terrible age, announced in the Sacred Books of India, “when the castes shall be mingled, when even the family shall no longer exist”?

It is only necessary to look around in order to be convinced that this state is truly that of the world of today, and to see on all sides that profound degeneracy which the Gospel terms “the abomination of desolation”. The gravity of the situation cannot be minimized; it should be envisaged such as it is, without optimism but also without pessimism, for as we have already said, the end of the old world will be also the beginning of a new one.

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the point at which the “descent” is completely accomplished, where “the wheel stops turning”—at least for the instant marking the passage from one cycle to another—it is necessary to conclude that, until this point is actually attained, it is impossible that these things should be understood by men in general, but only by the small number of those who are destined to prepare, in one way or in another, the germs of the future cycle.”

― René Guénon, The Essential René Guénon: Metaphysical Principles, Traditional Doctrines, and the Crisis of Modernity

After Ragnarök by Emil Doepler  (1855–1922) 

[urmuzii]

[castilestateofmind]

"Myth is a reflection of the deepest layers of the soul. It is a cosmic mirror that shows us our place in the world and our connection with the transcendent".

- Ernst Jünger.

[nousrose]

Modern man, instead of attempting to raise himself to truth, seeks to drag truth down to his own level.

The Crisis of the Modern World

Rene Guenon

[raisongardee]

"[…] les matérialistes, avec tout leur "bon sens" tant vanté et tout le "progrès" dont ils se considèrent fièrement comme les produits les plus achevés et les représentants les plus "avancés", ne sont, au fond, que des êtres en qui certaines facultés se sont atrophiées au point d'être complètement abolies. C'est d'ailleurs à cette condition seulement que le monde sensible peut leur apparaître comme un "système clos", à l'intérieur duquel ils se sentent en parfaite sécurité ; il nous reste à voir comment cette illusion peut, en un certain sens et dans une certaine mesure, être "réalisée" du fait du matérialisme lui-même ; mais nous verrons aussi plus loin comment, malgré cela, elle ne représente en quelque sorte qu'un état d'équilibre éminemment instable, et comment, au point même où les choses en sont actuellement, cette sécurité de la "vie ordinaire", sur laquelle a reposé jusqu'ici toute l'organisation extérieure du monde moderne, risque fort d'être troublée par des "interférences" inattendues."

René Guénon, Le Règne de la Quantité et les Signes des Temps, 1945.

[radiogornjigrad]

RENE GUENON – SIMBOLIKA KRSTA [GRADAC – ALEF 38]

Nema sumnje da u duhovnoj istoriji Evrope XX veka Rene Genon, sa svojim učenjem „integralnog tradicionalizma“, predstavlja sasvim jedinstvenu, iznimnu pojavu. Ne možemo označiti njegove učitelje i prethodnike, tim pre što i sam Genon, na jednom mestu, izričito odbija da nas obavesti o pravim izvorima svojih saznanja („ni na jedan način nismo skloni da obavestimo publiku o našim realnim izvorima,…

[eternal-echoes]

I’ve only seen two Catholics read him so they’re probably in the minority (and it was a long time ago so it’s possible they’ve changed since then). But in case you come across people who read Guénon to shape their worldview, they’re probably heretical.

[la-femme-en-rouge]

as I read into Renee guenon I sense great satisfaction from the hate he has for modern science & scholastic thought