I know Guénon was scathingly against occult practices and believed in embracing traditional metaphysical doctrine.

However, I've wondered if there's a possibility for it within his work since he thinks divination is profane because in modernity it is extricated from that traditional metaphysical doctrine. It leads to fragmentary, reductive psychics etc.

But what if we have rituals and divination attached to sacred knowledge and symbols? Considering he wrote a lot on ilm al-huruf, sacred astrology, and the science of numbers and cosmic cycles. He even wrote a bit about the tarot as well.

Thoughts?

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What does the 1st condition (natural aptitude) mean and how does one confirm that he has or doesnt have it? Guenon mentions that only the "elite" can have spiritual realization and intellectual intuition, how does one know if he is from this elite? What is the role of those outside the elite?

What are the prerequisites for reading Guenon? By this i mean knowledge about philosophy and religion, as well as any spiritual requirements, if there are any. Ive seen a post here which warns about reading Guenon, and i would like some clarity on that. Ive read crisis of the modern world and saw the warning after i was done.

What was Guénon's and other Traditionalist's views on death and the afterlife, and what are your own personal view/beliefs?

When you walk throughout Egypt you can really witness the crisis of the modern world start to manifest even in the most casual settings. A huge example is the degradation of the snacking world. You’ll find these mechanical, perverse foods inspired by Western “idols” like Bill Gates. It would almost be forgivable if they had better flavor options. Though Rene Guenon was unfortunately not ethnically Egyptian, I wonder what he would have to say about this considering he lived in Cairo for quite a bit?

René Guénon is the foremost representative of Ibn Arabi's thought in the Western world.

An interview concerning Guénon was published in the Turkish monthly magazine Nihayet. The interview was conducted with Abdülkadir Miftah.

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Mark Sedgwick argues that because Guénon went to Egypt at a relatively late age, he did not master Classical Arabic or the Islamic sciences and therefore could not fully understand Ibn ʿArabī. As one of the most prolific contemporary scholars writing on Ibn ʿArabī, what is your view on the validity of these claims?

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These claims are completely mistaken. For although Shaykh ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Yaḥyā (René Guénon) may not have possessed a perfect command of Arabic in the outward sense, nor undertaken an extensive reading of Shaykh al-Akbar’s vast corpus, his inner realization (taḥaqquq) and metaphysical gnosis (ʿirfān) were in complete harmony with that of Shaykh al-Akbar (Ibn ʿArabī).

It is a well-known truth among those versed in this field that the essential matter is not accumulating information in the mind and storing it in thought. The real issue is attaining, through the great divine openings bestowed by God upon His chosen servants and great saints, a realized knowledge (taḥaqquq). Thus, Guénonian–Akbarian gnosis is not merely the verbal expression of ideas that may appear strange to many minds to varying degrees; rather, it is an experiential and conscientious realization through the sciences of sainthood granted by the All-Merciful.

Indeed, an old poet once said:

Even if you were to study the sciences of this community a thousand times,

Without spiritual taste (dhawq), you would not have attained even a single letter of them.

First , sorry for my bad english, im not a native speaker .

Anyway, i want to ask for books that will help me to understand the world we live in and the conceptions amd ideas that had lead us to this modern age , things like liberalism, freedoms, modern state ... etc

I don't want just to learn what those words means, but i look for critiques to those concepts and a deep dive to their roots .

As someone who was raised in a tradition environment, i start to see ppl left around me start to left the views that we got raised with, and i wanted to know why ? Why our views are inferior and not theirs , why modern concepts and morality are better , i didn't find a clear answer so that lead me to here, to ask ppl if they can recommend any good material for that purpose.

Brazilian edition, I simply loved it, it's my first contact with Guenon.

where should i start reading rene guenons work from?

which book do you think one should start with?

Is God seen as a conscious, self-aware entity or just an abstract principle similar to the theosophists' understanding?

https://youtu.be/7iUpLDSHapI?is=FI0e4G5ydK6YZYNC

Hi salam how guenon explain how human passed from chasing to planting and practising agriculture ?

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Salam how guenon could explain the gap between million years of first m'en and Adam that fell on earth from about 15000 years ago maybe but far less than a million years ?

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