/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13958293]

>I do not believe that a rejection of the world in its modern form, a return to communal life,
abandoning factory production in favour of cottage crafts and industries, has a future in the world we live in. ... Its motivations are more unconscious and irrational than truly critical. Moreover, this attitude is almost always accompanied by a return or a correlative recourse to religious doctrines, to the teachings of Oriental philosophers, to Zen, to Tantrism, to Sufism, and soon it will be the turn of Gnosticism (the last teaching still to await its adepts and its Enlightened Ones).

>This is why the path of absolute withdrawal
chosen by a man such as René Guénon, author of The Crisis of the Modern World who became a convert to Islam and left France to live and die in Egypt under the name of Abdel Wahed Yahia-seems to me sterile in this day and age. First because it involves a step which is essentially solitary and, second and more important, because his constant search for an original Tradition meant dedicating himself exclusively to a cult of the past.

Lmao where were you when GUENON got retroactively BTFO?