Zsubmariner
· 1d
It's very not weird for a western man to reject witchcraft and heresy.
yer all fucked up... going forward i leave you to your fucking arrogance...
took me five seconds dickhead.
"Modern Masonry... is no longer anything but a mere 'residue', an empty shell from which the spirit has completely departed... [It] has become only a caricature of true initiation... a society which, having lost the genuine traditional science, preserves only an entirely outward and profane activity."
Source: Guénon, René. Studies in Freemasonry and the Compagnonnage. Translated by Henry D. Fohr. Edited by Samuel D. Fohr. Sophia Perennis, 2001. (Original French: Études sur la Franc-Maçonnerie et le Compagnonnage, Tome 1, Éditions Traditionnelles, 1964). Chapter: "The Degeneration of Modern Masonry" (Foundational critique throughout the work)
"Freemasonry... claims to possess an ‘initiation’ while wanting to be independent of all tradition; this is a manifest impossibility, for there is no initiation outside of a traditional form."
Source: Guénon, René. The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times. Translated by Lord Northbourne. Sophia Perennis, 2001 (Original French 1945). Chapter 28: "The Deceptions of the 'Counter-Initiation'" (p. 238 in Sophia Perennis ed.).
"I have completely broken with Masonry... It is impossible for me to have any connection whatsoever with an organization which, in its present state, is nothing but a negation of the very principle which alone can give a traditional organization its raison d'être."
Source: Letter from Guénon to Baron du Bourg de Bozas (1913), cited in Chacornac, Paul. The Simple Life of René Guénon. Sophia Perennis, 2001 (Original French 1958). Chapter detailing his Masonic period and break
"Gnosticism... is essentially anti-traditional... It pretends to possess a 'knowledge' (gnosis) superior to that of the orthodox traditions, while in reality it only offers a mixture of misunderstood fragments of various doctrines, elaborated by individual fantasy and devoid of any authentic initiatic transmission."
Source: Guénon, René. Studies in Freemasonry and the Compagnonnage. Translated by Henry D. Fohr. Sophia Perennis, 2001. Chapter: "Initiation and the Crafts" (p. 43, footnote 15).
"Gnosticism... represents one of the most typical examples of a counter-tradition... Its fundamental characteristic is a spirit of revolt against all legitimate authority, spiritual as well as temporal, and against all established tradition... It replaces true intellectual intuition with an uncontrolled and fantastic imagination, giving rise to the most extravagant and incoherent speculations."
Source: Guénon, René. The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times. Translated by Lord Northbourne. Sophia Perennis, 2001 (Original French 1945). Chapter 34: "The Deformations of Modern Mentality" (pp. 224-225 in SP ed.
The core error of Gnosticism is its radical dualism, positing an irreconcilable opposition between spirit and matter, the divine and the creator (demiurge). This denies the fundamental metaphysical principle of the unity of all existence and the essential goodness of creation emanating from the Principle... True esoterism sees manifestation as a theophany, not a prison built by an evil power."
Source: Guénon, René. The Great Triad. Translated by Henry D. Fohr. Sophia Perennis, 2001 (Original French 1946). Chapter 1: "Taoïsme et Christianisme" (Discusses dualism as antithetical to non-dual metaphysics).
