Category: Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Letter from Guenon to AKC 24VI1935
It is well understood that all people are or have been in possession of traditions derived from a single source, but in a more or less distinct way.
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The Coronation of the King
Signs of decline: substitution of feeling for knowing as a basis for judgment; altruism will take the place of that of justice; words will be used for their emotive effect than as the vehicle of thought
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The Priest and the King
There is nothing that can be truly and well done or made except by the man in whom the marriage of the Sacerdotium and the Regnum has been consummated, nor can any peace be made except by those who have made their peace with themselves. ~ Ananda Coomaraswamy In 1942, Ananda Coomaraswamy (AKC) followed up…
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Authority and Legitimacy
the problem is not the leaders who deceive the people, but rather the people who let themselves be deceived (personal communication) We have presented three works by Ananda Coomaraswamy, Charles Maurras, and Julius Evola on the themes of the elite and the source and legitimacy of their authority. Remember the two goals we have in…
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Eastern Wisdom and Western Knowledge
Rene Guenon is one of the few writers of our time whose work is really of importance … he stands for the primacy of pure metaphysics over all other forms of knowledge
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Spiritual Knighthood
Henceforth, the relationship between man and his God is that of knightly service. At its limit, this relationship produces the metamorphosis of the warrior knight to the spiritual knight.
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The Nachtenschein of Classic Liberalism
Having come across a remark in AKC‘s letters that the really cultured and spiritual European does not have a peer in their Eastern counterparts, I returned to a volume of Wilhelm Humboldt‘s collected letters and essays, excerpted by subject. Although one can tell that the writing was not in English (the German lumbers through the…
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Nietzsche and the Gospel of Buddhism
From the thirteenth to the twentieth century one can follow the progressive decay of life: the ever fainter expression of the creative will, loosening social integration, the substitution of contract for status, the advancement of material and moral to the exclusion of spiritual values, the decline of vision, up to this present hour of pure…
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Traditional Mentality
the traditional society is held together with a common mythology that orders their entire lives. Yet, within this structure, the individuals are free. When myth becomes religion, that is, it is compartmentalized into one aspect of life among others, then the culture begins to die. There is a “common mind”, without which an organic society…
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Coomaraswamy on Evola’s Revolt
This book constitutes a remarkable presentation and exposition of Traditional doctrine and could well serve as an introductory text for the student of anthropology and as a guide for Indology, especially for anyone who is interested in Hindu mythology