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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”

(p. 161) “In addition to these there was a wider community around Schuon, including a number of non-Muslim Traditionalists. One of these Jean Borella a professor of philosophy at the University of Nancy in France, led a subsidiary group of perhaps fifty Catholic Traditionalists.”

(p. 161) “Rama Coomaraswamy, the son of Ananda Coomaraswamy, led another Catholic group in America. According to one source, Rama Coomaraswamy’s group (and so probably Borella’s as well) integrated Schuonian Traditionalism into their religious practice...”

(p. 161) “...by means of repetitive prayer similar to the Sufi dhikr, but using Christian terms and concepts.2 None of these Christians were actually members of the Maryamiyya, but they followed Schuon personally as a Maryami would.”

(pp. 51-3) Background of Ananda Coomaraswamy.
#Englishman #Anglican #Perennialist #WilliamBlake #Ficino #WilliamButlerYeats

(p. 53) continued