Tag: Rene Guenon
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Thoughts on Initiation
Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi: in interiore hominis habitat veritas. ~ St. Augustine Rene Guenon has written extensively on the conditions and facts of initiation, but hardly enough on what occurs after initiation. I offer, here, some thoughts on initiation, and bring up the question of its necessity and sufficiency. Unless a man prefers…
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The Deception of the New Age
Because of time constraints, Alexander Shepard was unable to post this piece himself, but has given us permission to reproduce his notes on the New Age as counter tradition. Rene Guenon writes of it: As for the counter tradition, we can still only see the preliminary signs of it, in the form of all things…
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The Correspondence Project
Beginning tonight, on on successive Mondays, we plan to make available selected correspondence between the various men of tradition. Our initial efforts will include letters from Rene Guenon to Guido de Giorgio (the letters in the opposite direction are missing) as well as the exchanges between Mircea Eliade and Julius Evola. We will learn, for…
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Holy Rome, Eternal Rome
Before translating Evola’s review of a book by Maurras, we plan to provide a chapter from Guido de Giorgio’s La Tradizione Romana (The Roman Tradition) called “Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition.” De Giorgio is most certainly the only man to have collaborated with both Rene Guenon and Julius Evola. In his…
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Unloosening the Knots
The Buddha replied: “Not at all! Since the knots were tied one after another in a certain order, we cannot untie them, unless we follow the reverse order.”
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Salvation, Deliverance, Action
If we take the view that consciousness is not a product of the world, but that the world is a product of consciousness, it becomes obvious that we live in exactly the type of world which we have created and therefore deserved, and that the remedy cannot be an escape from the world, but only…
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The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon
An ecstasy of joy, whose immense tension sometimes dissolves into a stream of tears, and whose pace is sometimes like a storm and sometimes becomes slow; a state of being completely beside oneself, yet with the clearest consciousness of an infinite number of fine tremors and wave-like vibrations running down to the very toes; a…
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Symbolism and Metaphysics
Natural phenomena in general, and especially astronomical phenomena, are never looked upon by the traditional doctrines other than as a simple means of expression, whereby they symbolize truths of a higher order. ~ Rene Guenon, Man and his Becoming according to the Vedanta Inner States It is reasonably straight-forward to describe the sensual, or physical,…
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Rational Man and Real Man
A real man must know himself as Subject, Person, or Self, not as an object whether in his consciousness or in the world. Since to know is to be, the Real Man will also be a Person, not just another individual in the world. There is no formula or program for this task, that is…