🧵 Thread based on Chapter 6: “Analogous Considerations Drawn from the Study of the Dream State” from The Multiple States of the Being — by René Guénon — The only true metaphysician in recent times. 1/
Dreams are not mere subjective illusions. They are real states of existence — subtler than waking life, but still within the domain of individual manifestation. The study of dreaming offers a symbolic analogy for understanding other planes of being.

🧵 The Hidden Influence of Islam in the West

Apart from its scientific, educational, and other exoteric impact, Islam exerted a hidden influence in the West: subtle, initiatic, and largely unnoticed by those unaware of metaphysical transmission. 2/
It would be inaccurate to speak of this influence in terms of external expansion or political power. It concerned neither conversion nor domination. It touched what still retained, within Western forms, a connection to higher principles.

Al Faqr — Guénon 🧵

In modern languages, “poverty” implies lack. But in the metaphysical order, al-faqr signifies detachment from what is not the Real. It is not absence of things, but absence of selfhood. The faqīr is poor not because he owns nothing—but because he is nothing. 2/
The individual, insofar as he is individual, is nothing. No quality, no act, no state belongs to him in truth. He subsists entirely by the Principle, without which he would vanish. To know this is poverty. To live it is fanā’.

Salafīsm/Wahhābīsm Truth Nuke 🧵

Salafīs/Wahhābīs are among the most intellectually dishonest and egotistical groups in existence. They stubbornly reject truth, hiding behind articles, links, and the names of select shuyūkh they blindly follow (taqlīd).
2/ They cannot think straight; their brain fuses when shown their flaws. They resort to ad hominem and takfir when out of filthy tricks. They claim to follow only the Qurʾān and Sunnah, but barely engage beyond a few verses.

Democracy: A Metaphysical Inversion 🧵

Democracy is founded on the illusion that truth can be produced by the masses. It assumes quantity determines quality. In the traditional view, the real is established by principle, not by vote. No truth is born from below. “Multiplicity cannot dictate unity.”

Metaphysical Structure of Time 🧵

Modern man experiences time as a straight line — a narrow arrow from “past” to “future.” But this is merely the most external layer. Tradition knows 3 orders of time:

– Cyclical
– Linear
– Supra-temporal

Each with a distinct ontological status 2/
The first is Cyclical Time — the time of cosmic rhythms, the cycle of days, years, ages. It is the movement of manifestation within total possibility. Its symbol is the wheel (chakra, rota), and its law is repetition.

Origin of the word “Hindu” and the extreme corruption of the (ex)-followers of Sanātana Dharma 🧵

How traditional metaphysics can explain the ‘Hindutva’ phenomenon. 1/
Hindu is not a word of spiritual origin. It is a geographical term, a Persian distortion of Sindhu, referring to those east of the Indus. It was never used in any authentic Vedantic or dharmic scripture to define the doctrine itself.

🧵 Why did traditional civilizations use symbols, myths, and anthropomorphic forms?

This thread is specifically for the modern (western) minds who cannot comprehend higher principles, and generalize the ancient world as dumb/illiterate. “O they were so dumb, look what we know” 1/
Traditional doctrines speak through symbols, myths, and even anthropomorphic representations.
This is not ignorance — it is metaphysical pedagogy: symbolic language points beyond itself, toward realities inaccessible to ordinary reasoning.

Addressing the controversy surrounding Rene Guenon’s view:

Ch. 6 of Perspectives on Initiation: “Against Mixing Traditional Forms.”

Master #Guenon warns that mixing elements from different traditional forms (e.g., blending Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Buddhist rites… … concepts, symbols, techniques) is not harmless curiosity — it is a profound metaphysical disorder that destroys the inner efficacy of initiation.

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It’s very clear that Rene Guenon is against the modern “mystics” who think you can walk multiple paths at the same time.