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René Guénon (1886-1951) was as I mentioned recently perhaps the most prominent #traditionalist of the 20thC - a thread on him 1/ ImageImage
Starting from his interests in #traditionalist Catholic circles, #Freemasonry, #occultism he studied mathematics and philosophy and later #Indology at the #EPHE in #Paris 2/
He got a BA in philosophy 1915 from #EPHE but failed his aggrégation 1919 though he still managed to get a job at Catholic schools, his doctorate was also rejected 1921 #EPHE 3/
He became acquainted early on with forms of anti-modernism and mystical orders which considered the modern world as fallen and constituting a dark end of times - #kaliyuga - whose only redemption lay in sacred science and understanding the #metaphysics of the world 4/
To this end he joined the #Martinist order led by Gérard Encausse known as #Papus (1865-1916) occult-world.com/martinism/ and later the #GnosticChurch established by Jules Doinel (1842-1903) apostolicgnosis.org/history.html 5/ ImageImageImageImage
His association with #traditionalist Catholics was signalled by some teaching on #Hinduism at #InstitutCatholique from 1916 en.icp.fr but by the mid-1920s the relation was straining; he seems to have joined the #Shadhili Sufi order in 1910 already 6/
He also began to write, editing the journal La gnose from 1909 - here is the first volume issuu.com/sergebencheikh… probably til 1922 and he wrote for La voile d’Isis (founded by Papus in 1890) from 1935 became #ÉtudesTraditionelles later edited by Michel Valsan (1911-1974) 7/ ImageImageImageImage
His first book was result of his rejected dissertation #EPHE L’introduction générale à l’étude des doctrines hindoues 1921 then L’homme et son devenir selon le Vedanta 1925 signaled his #orientalist interest defining #Hinduism as #Vedanta - metaphysical tradition and monism 8/ ImageImageImage
The second set of works came from his experience in occultist circles, encouraged by his #traditionalist Catholic friends including Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) he critiqued #Theosophy in La Théosophisme histoire d’une pséudo-religion 1921 and L’erreur spirite 1923 9/ ImageImageImage
The third group were studies that established his conception of #sacredscience and #traditionalmetaphysics such as Orient et Occident 1924, Le roi du monde 1927, La crise du monde moderne 1927 classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/gue… 10/ ImageImageImage
This interest continued with Authorité spirituelle 1929, Les états multiples de l’être 1932, Les principes de calcul infinitésimal 1946, and Le règne de quantité et signe des temps 1945 11/ ImageImageImage
One of the elements of his exposition of #sacred science was his interest in its #symbolism starting with his early Symbolisme de La Croix 1931 and later a collection Symboles foundamentaux de science sacrée published posthumously 1965 12/ ImageImageImage
For some Guénon is defined by his #Sufism in #Egypt where he moved in 1930 although keeping a close connexion to #ÉtudesTraditionelles and he did write in Arabic also later - another thread 13/
Nevertheless #Sufism was an expression of his #traditionalism although he did not seem to share the #TranscendentUnityofReligions approach of one of his associates with whom he later he seems to have separated, #FrithjofSchuon nor the politics of others like #JuliusEvola 14/

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