Categoria: Guénon, René

This recalls the corresponding words in the Gospels; “Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein” (St. Luke, XVIII 17.), “Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes. (St. Matthew, XI. 25; St. Luke, X. 21.) “Simplicity”…

Aunque la Existencia sea esencialmente única, y eso porque el Ser en sí mismo es uno, por eso no comprende menos la multiplicidad indefinida de los modos de la manifestación, ya que los comprende a todos igualmente por eso mismo de que son igualmente posibles, y esta posibilidad implica que cada uno de ellos debe…

Esta consideración a los dos caos, que corresponde a lo formal y a lo informal, es indispensable para la comprehensión de un gran número de figuraciones simbólicas y tradicionales (Cf. concretamente el simbolismo extremo oriental del DRAGÓN, que corresponde de una cierta manera a la concepción teológica occidental del Verbo como «el lugar de los…

En lo que concierne a la distinción esencial de la «mente» con el intelecto puro, recordaremos solo esto: el intelecto, en el paso de lo universal a lo individual, produce la consciencia, pero ésta, que es del orden individual, no es modo alguno idéntica al principio intelectual mismo, aunque procede inmediatamente de él como resultante…

First, it is not a single isolated case in traditional doctrine, for it has something like a counterpart in Hebrew angelology. Generally speaking, Michael is the angel of the Sun and Raphael is the angel of Mercury, but sometimes the relationship is reversed. On the other hand, if Michael, as the representative of the solar…

On the other hand, there is nearly always a close connection made between Enoch (Idris) and Elijah (Ilyas), both of whom were taken up to heaven without passing through bodily death, (NA: It is said that they are to appear on earth again at the end of the cycle; they are the two “witnesses” mentioned…

This recalls the corresponding words in the Gospels; “Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein” (St. Luke, XVIII 17.), “Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes. (St. Matthew, XI. 25; St. Luke, X. 21.) “Simplicity”…

Unfortunately one comes across people who claim to “judge” that which they do not know and who, because they apply the name “metaphysics” to a purely human and rational knowledge (which for us is only science or philosophy), imagine that Oriental metaphysics is no more and no other than that; from which they arrive logically…

These few indications should be enough to show how inept it is to make fun of stories that speak of the “language of the birds.” It is all too easy and too simple to disdain as “SUPERSTITIONS” everything one cannot understand; but the ancients themselves knew very well what they meant when they used symbolic…

Âtmâ permeates all things, which are, as it were, its accidental modifications, and according to Râmânuja’s expression, “constitute in some sort its body (this word being taken here in a purely analogical sense), be they moreover of an intelligent or non-intelligent nature,” that is, according to Western conceptions, “spiritual as well as “material,” for that…

Our understanding of it is made easier by the notion of what in Hindu doctrine is called “SVADHARMA”, that is the performance by every being of an activity consistent with his own nature, and it is also by this notion, or rather by its absence, that the deficiency of the profane conception is most clearly…

The attachment to multiplicity is also, in a certain sense, the Biblical “TEMPTATION”, which, by making the being taste the fruit of the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil”, moves him away from the original central unity and stops him from reaching the “Tree of Life”; and it is just by that, in fact,…

But an objection will undoubtedly be raised here: Is it possible to go beyond nature? We do not hesitate to answer plainly: Not only is it possible, but it is a fact. Again it might be said, is this not merely an assertion; what proofs thereof can be adduced? It is truly strange that proof…

On the other hand, there is nearly always a close connection made between Enoch (Idris) and Elijah (Ilyas), both of whom were taken up to heaven without passing through bodily death, (NA: It is said that they are to appear on earth again at the end of the cycle; they are the two “witnesses” mentioned…

The attachment to multiplicity is also, in a certain sense, the Biblical “temptation”, which, by making the being taste the fruit of the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil”, moves him away from the original central unity and stops him from reaching the “Tree of Life”; and it is just by that, in fact,…

The terms “SUBTLE STATE” and “gross state,” which are assigned to the different degrees of formal manifestation, will be explained later; but we may point out now that this last distinction only holds good on condition that we take as our starting point the human individuality, or more precisely, the corporeal and sensible world. The…

If the fundamental identity of rites and symbols is more closely examined, it may be noted in the first place that a symbol, understood as a graphic figuration, as it is most commonly, is only as it were the fixation of a ritual gesture. (NA: These considerations relate directly to what we have called the…