/lit/ - Literature

>>16501375
I actually like Watts. He's very intelligent and knows his shit, but he is quite reductionist. Seraphim Rose (a student of Watts') is a much cooler figure though, as evidenced by the fact that one might be canonized as a modern saint soon and the other died in a depressive alcoholic stupor.

>>16310586
The only thing worse than protestants are gnostics. The mother Church will survive and these petty wiles of the antichrist come to pass.

>>16306316
Because Islam's only bartering chip are its cool mats. I've been trying to get my parish into mats for some time now, soon you will be obsolete.

>>16302792
In his declaration of the antichrist, he revealed his adoration of God. His hate was his adoration, and God consumed his him. The world of seeking to replace God will come to pass. Read your Bible, such men are merely those of worldly concern.

>>16296819
This, the Church is wealthy not because it is vain, but because it wishes to beautify the monumental and sublime. It is better that the lay people have less wealth giving it as tithes to something greater which helps souls, than to bastardize wealth on billboard-Christianity.
>>16296852
This. All of you need to understand Apostolic Succession before you hurt yourselves, Christianity lives by its traditions.

>>16285598
He was into new age shit and an acolyte to Alan Watts for starters. He actually respected Guenon after his tonsure and talks about him in this letter, which says all that's needed to say.
https://www.scribd.com/document/120951870/Seraphim-Rose-on-Guenon

>>14829264
>I look back fondly now on Rene Guenon as my first real instructor in Truth, and I only pray that you will take what is good from him and not let his limitations chain you. Even psychologically, "Eastern wisdom" is not for us who are flesh and blood of the West; Orthodox Christianity is clearly the tradition that was given us-and it can be clearly seen in the Western Europe of the first ten centuries, before the falling away of Rome from Orthodoxy. But it also happens that Orthodoxy is not merely a "tradition" like any other, a "handing down" of spiritual wisdom from the past; it is God's Truth here and now-it gives us immediate contact with God such as no other tradition can do. There are many truths in the other traditions, both those handed down from a past when men were closer to God, and those discovered by gifted men in the reaches of the mind;' but the full Truth is only in Christianity, God's revelation of Himself to mankind. I will take only one example: there are teachings on spiritual deception in other traditions, but none so thoroughly refined as those taught by the Orthodox Holy Fathers; and more importantly, these deceptions of the evil one and our fallen nature are so omnipresent and so thorough that no one could escape them unless the loving God revealed by Christianity were close at hand to deliver us from them. Similarly: Hindu tradition teaches many true things about the end of the Kali Yuga; but one who merely knows these truths in the mind will be helpless to resist the temptations of those times, and many who recognize the Antichrist (Chalmakubi) when he comes will nonetheless worship him-only the power of Christ given to the heart will have strength to resist him.

>It is my prayer for you that God will open your heart, and you yourself will do what you can to meet Him. You will find there happiness you never dreamed possible before; your heart will join your head in recognizing the true God, and no real truth you have ever known will be lost. May God grant it! Feel free to write whatever is in your mind or heart.
>With love,
>Fr. Seraphim

>>14818541
>It so happens that Rene Guenon was the chief influence in the formation of my own intellectual outlook (quite apart from the question of Orthodox Christianity). I read and studied with eagerness all his books that I could get a hold of; through his influence I studied ·the ancient Chinese language and resolved to do for the Chinese tradition what he had done for the Hindu; I was even able to meet and study with a genuine representative of the Chinese tradition and understood full well what he means by the difference between such authentic teachers and the mere "professors" who teach in the universities.

>It was Rene Guenon who taught me to seek and love the Truth above all else, and to be unsatisfied with anything else; this is what finally brought me to the Orthodox Church. Perhaps a word of my experience will be of help for you to know.

>For years in my studies I was satisfied with being "above all traditions" but somehow faithful to them; I only went deeper into the Chinese tradition because no one had presented it in the West from a fully traditional point of view.When I visited an Orthodox Church, it was only in order to view another "tradition"-knowing that Guenon (and one of his disciples) had described Orthodoxy as the most authentic of the Christian traditions.

I'm grateful I found Orthodoxy instead of continuing to fall for the wiles of easternism.