im going to be researching into these two authors mostly for fun. are these two even comparable? i remember guenon was critiquing theosophy in an entire book "Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion" dedicated to the topic.
blavatsky and guenon
im going to be researching into these two authors mostly for fun. are these two even comparable? i remember guenon was critiquing theosophy in an entire book "Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion" dedicated to the topic.
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Not comparable at all
Elaborate?
Why wouldn't you be able to compare two theosophists?
why the frick do you ask that if you do know guenon critiques on theosophy?
because i havent read the book yet
blavatsky is based as far as women go. the ideal IQfyfu.
She believed in fairies and in the Wandering israelite
holy based. i love her.
She was critiqued by the rest of the occult community for encouraging people to look at elves as subhumans and mistreat them.
The Wandering israelite thing is also sus because women who sighted him described a cute israeli boy instead of the Merchant
there is nothing in the world more cringe than the occult
Why not just read actual world religions instead of this larp bullshit?
Guenon was a follower of Papus for years and Papus was a Theosophist before he split with them. Traditionalism is clearly influenced by Theosophy even though Guenon wound up hating it.
>Traditionalism is clearly influenced by Theosophy even though Guenon wound up hating it.
Can you name any idea which you think Guenon accepted on the basis of Theosophy and which isn't found in primary eastern sources?
>no eastern source explicitly accepts perenniali-
refuted by the Gita, Shaivist writers, Kukai etc
morongay, if you'd actually read Blavatsky you'd know she made no claim to novelty, and admitted the only reason you'd even think this is because you hadn't read the ancient philosophers, which your moron illiterate ass apparently hasn't read either. now please stop embarrasing yourself and go back.
>morongay, if you'd actually read Blavatsky you'd know she made no claim to novelty
Did I say anything about what Blavatsky claims or doesn't claim in that post? No, I didn't, so don't put words in my mouth.
If you don't dispute his claim that means you accept that everything Blavatsky said she took from primary eastern sources. Which would make your question moot.
>Can you name any idea which you think Guenon accepted on the basis of Theosophy and which isn't found in primary eastern sources?
the whole fricking question.
INB4
>i didn't mention blavatsky
theosophy here = blavatsky
all blavatsky's ideas are found in older sources but she explicitly and repeatedly said this
no other anons better talk shit about qt blavatsky. i love her.
Are they worth reading as a non-believer
Helena knew
The fact that he wrote against theosophy does make them comparable in that ypu can and should compare their thought to see why they disagreed.
Guenons theosophy book is mostly just direct excerpts from letters and articles written by theosophists it is p funny tbh
That filter on blavatsky is really setting off the lizard part of my brain.
actually yes, it would be fun.
start with guenon and follow the picrel chart all the way to the Theosophy book
then read blavatsky
then re-read Guenon
sounds like a blast tbqhdesu
have fun anon