René Guenón už jako šejk Abdalwáhid Jahjá
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English original here
Od okultismu k esoterismu
Guénon se narodil 15. listopadu 1886 do silně katolické rodiny z města Blois. V roce 1904, po vykonání pouti do Lurd, odešel studovat do Paříže. Ve studiích však postupoval jen velice zdráhavě: svou licence získal až ve svých devětadvaceti letech. O tři roky později pak neuspěl při agrégation z filozofie, když neobhájil doktorskou práci „Všeobecný úvod do studia hinduistických doktrín“. (more…)
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“I hate this book. I hate it with all my heart. It gave me glory, that paltry thing called fame, but it is also the source of all my miseries. (more…)
Martin Luther
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Many authors distinguish between, on the one hand Catholicism, which is supposed to be a negative Christianity incarnated by Rome and an anti-Germanic instrument, and, on the other hand, Protestantism, which is supposed to be a positive Christianity emancipated from the Roman papacy and accepting traditional Germanic values. (more…)
William Blake, “Behemoth and Leviathan”
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Part 1 of 2
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“Nur Meer und Erde haben hier Gewicht.”
(Only sea and land matter here.)
—Goethe
This article is less concerned with geopolitics than with thalassopolitics, (more…)
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In 1917, in Die Krisis der europäischen Kultur (The Crisis of European Culture), Rudolf Pannwitz described the Nietzschean Superman as “postmodern.” The concept then underwent a long eclipse before re-appearing in philosophical debate in 1979. (more…)
Plato, detail of Raphael’s “The School of Athens,” 1509–1510
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In 1938, Georges Dumézil discovered, the existence of a veritable Indo-European “ideology,” a specific mental structure manifesting a common conception of the world. He writes:
René Guénon, 1886–1951
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Czech version here
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Editor’s Note:
This essay and the one that follows are presented in commemoration of René Guénon’s birth on November 15, 1886.
On January 7th, 1951, the Frenchman René Guénon, one of the principal representatives of Traditional thought in the 20thcentury, died in Cairo. (more…)
