Most Hindu sources say that the Kali Yuga will last 432,000 years – in short, we are nowhere near the end of it. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2009. . Click on the following link to, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines, Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, The Betrayal of Tradition: Essays on the Spiritual Crisis of Modernity, The Essential René Guénon: Metaphysics, Tradition and the Crisis of Modernity, Comparative Religion, Esoterism, Judaism, Tradition, Comparative Religion, Metaphysics, Perennial Philosophy, Comparative Religion, Modernism, Perennial Philosophy, Tradition, Tomorrow, Vol. In 1927’s The Crisis of the Modern World, he described the concept of “civilization” as a pretext designed to fool the public, “mere moralistic hypocrisy, serving as a mask for designs of conquest or economic ambitions”. The Great Triad. Marco Pallis, “Supplementary Notes on Christian Initiation”, Sophia, Vol. Aperçus sur l’ésotérisme islamique et le taoïsme. First, their understanding of initiation, or lack thereof, implied secrecy, whereas a careful reading of Guenon’s writings would reveal that initiation implied a serious commitment to a religious tradition that entailed taking spiritual instruction by a learned person in that tradition. René Guénon - L'influence allemande - Introduction générale... - 39/39 Steph D'Aumaiha. Articles et Comptes-Rendus. Les Principes du Calcul infinitésimal. 188-189. This was due to the direct and indirect influence of Rene Guenon. You can check these in your browser security settings. Spiritualism too, with its séances, was stirring up “inferior forces.”. Create a website or blog at WordPress.com, Guénon, Coomaraswamy, Schuon, Burckhardt, Pallis and Nasr. Perspectives on Initiation. Insights into Christian Esoterism [including Saint Bernard]. They also correspond respectively to what is traditionally designated in western hermeticism by the terms royal initiation and sacerdotal initiation. Interestingly, Guénon remained more or less incognizant of the Buddhist tradition for many years, regarding it as no more than a “heterodox development” within Hinduism, without integrity as a formal religious tradition. By clinging to the letter only, it is unable to enter into the spirit”. It is the ‘unleashing’ of these forces, so to speak, and the setting of them to work to complete the deviation of our world and effectively to bring it towards final dissolution, which constitutes the second part or second phase referred to.”. Ghent, NY: Sophia Perennis, 2004. “They’re mad because people are going around saying, ‘It’s May’.”. [2] Mark J. Sedgwick, Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 88-93. —Martin Lings, author of Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions, “To a materialistic society enthralled with the phenomenal universe exclusively, Guénon, taking the Vedanta as point of departure, revealed a metaphysical and cosmological teaching both macrocosmic and microcosmic about the hierarchized degrees of being or states of existence, starting with the Absolute .