Category: Correspondence
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The Seven Sacred Liberal Arts
It is no coincidence that the Sacred Liberal Arts are Seven in number: this is the number of the mysteries, the steps towards union with God, and the rays of Creation, as well as the visible planets, the notes in the musical scale, and the steps or levels of the Kabbalah. There are also seven…
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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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Letters from Evola to Eliade (II)
The fact is striking that your works are so overly concerned to not mention any author who does not strictly belong to the official university literature; in your works, e.g., that lovable good man Pettazzoni [Italian professor of religion] is abundantly cited, while not a single word is found about Guenon, and not even other…
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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…
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Letters from Evola to Eliade (III)
As to methodology, I seek to follow a middle way different from most esoterists, I am also concerned to produce research satisfactory from the scientific point of view. What you undertake in the fields of the science of religions and mythology, I undertook many years ago, but in the field of academic philosophy that was…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Letters from Evola to Eliade (I)
I was thinking, and am still thinking (since I am at the point of having finished what I had attempted to do in the West) of going to India to stay there. One of my correspondents convinced me that it would not be worth the trouble, unless I go to Kashmir or Tibet and I…
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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,…