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Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century - Mark Sedgwick 
(p. 22) Jacques Maritain recommended for publication Rene Guenon’s L’introduction ge´ne´rale a` l’e´tude des doctrines hindoues (A General Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines)
(pp. 51-3) Background of Ananda Coomaraswamy.
#Englishman #Anglican #Perennialist #WilliamBlake #Ficino #WilliamButlerYeats
#Englishman #Anglican #Perennialist #WilliamBlake #Ficino #WilliamButlerYeats
My Rebbe by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
(p. 172) Jean Sulzberger of NY Times fame went to the rebbe many times for counsel. She was also involved in Time Magazine, Parabola magazine, the Gurdjieff Foundation. legcy.co/2VIL3Gg
#NewAge
#NewAge
Fellow new age occult perennialist traveler Rama Coomaraswamy wrote for Parabola as well. web.archive.org/web/2021022706…
#Sulzberger #perennialist
#Sulzberger #perennialist
Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century by Mark Sedgwick
(p. 22) Jacques Maritain recommended for publication Rene Guenon’s L’introduction ge´ne´rale a` l’e´tude des doctrines hindoues (A General Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines)
(p. 161) “Rama Coomaraswamy’s group integrated Schuonian Traditionalism into their religious practice by means of repetitive prayer similar to the Sufi dhikr, but using Christian terms and concepts”
There is little doubt that the Andalusian Sufi Ibn ʿArabī (1165-1240), born in Murcia, who settled and died in Damascus where his tomb lies on the foothills of Qasiyūn is one of the most exciting and controversial figures in #IslamicIntellectualHistory - a 🧵
Much ink has been spilled on him and his work - a useful introduction to his thought from an insider perspective is Chittick and another insider Sufi approach to his life is Addas 2/
His relationship to the philosophical tradition is much debated - was he a philosopher? A #Sufi metaphysician? Was he an exclusivist or a universal pluralist committed to #apocotastasis ? Rosenthal, Chittick and most recently Lipton have engaged these questions 3/
