“the 'Supreme Identity', according to an expression borrowed from Islamic esoterism, where the doctrine on this and on many other points is fundamentally the same as in the Hindu tradition, in spite of great differences in form.”
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René Guénon
René Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon, also known as Abdalwahid Yahia, was a French-Egyptian intellectual who wrote on topics ranging from esotericism, "sacred science" and "traditional studies" to symbolism and initiation.
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culture · French intellectual (1886–1951) · writer · metaphysician · philosopher · orientalist · also René Guénon, Rene Guenon, Rene Jean Marie Joseph Guenon, René-Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon, René Jean Marie Joseph Guénon, Guénon
Born 15 November 1886 · Died 7 January 1951 · Q496850
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2026· 3 entries
“only one essential preparation, and that is theoretical knowledge [implied by traditional doctrines]”
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Le Monde.fr: RENÉ GUÉNON EST MORT AU CAIRE
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2024· 1 entry
JeuneAfrique: René Guénon, de l’ésotérisme à l’islam soufi
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2022· 4 entries
Estadao Rss Feeds: Filósofo francês René Guénon tem obra lançada no Brasil
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AgoraVox: René Guénon : La crise du monde moderne
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Le Devoir: «La crise du monde moderne», René Guénon
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Lettre: Si je devais retenir deux choses de la pensée de René Guénon en 2022 ce serait quoi ?
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2017· 1 entry
Lettre: René Guénon, ce que nous lui devons
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2014· 2 entries
Ouest-France: René Guénon, penseur de la Tradition
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Ouest-France: René Guénon, penseurde la Tradition
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2013· 1 entry
islamweb: La conversion à l’Islam du penseur français René Guénon
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2009· 1 entry
Which proposes some insights and developments of the idea of 'counter-tradition' introduced by Guénon, based on Mohyddin Ibn Arabi's writings ("The profanation of Israël in the light of Sacred Law")
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2006· 1 entry
Fabula: Jean-Pierre Laurant, René Guénon. Les enjeux d'une lecture
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2001· 1 entry
That Man and his future according to the Vedânta remains "one of the most rigorous and profound interpretations of the Shankarian doctrine"
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1999· 1 entry
By Richard Noll who incidentally speaks of the role played by the Theosophical Society in Jung
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1985· 1 entry
By the publication from French publishing house Editions Archè of the documents of the H
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1952· 1 entry
In the posthumous collection Initiation and Spiritual Realization
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1951· 1 entry
Died 1951-01-07.
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1949· 1 entry
Guénon obtained Egyptian citizenship
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1946· 1 entry
Extends a series of articles on the central subject of initiation originally written between 1932 and 1938 for Le Voile d'Isis (later renamed Études Traditionnelles)
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1937· 1 entry
Thanks to the generosity of an English admirer of Guénon's called John Levy, the couple became owners of a small villa, the "Villa Fatima" named after Guénon's wife, in the modern district of Duqqi, west of Cairo, at the
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1930· 1 entry
Guénon left Paris for Cairo, where he met with Abdalhaqq-Léon Champrenaud, and Abdalhadi Alaqhili, formerly known as John-Gustaf Aguéli, to be initiated into a Sufi order of Islam
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1928· 1 entry
Which affected Guénon deeply
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1927· 1 entry
Was published the second major doctrinal book of his works: Man and His Becoming according to the Vedânta, and in 1929, Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power
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1923· 1 entry
“History of Eastern Philosophy”
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1921· 3 entries
Guénon debuted a series of articles in the French Revue de Philosophie, which, along with some supplements, led to the book Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion
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Guénon published his first book, an Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines
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On topics which were later included in the lecture he gave at the Sorbonne on December 17, 1925 ("Oriental Metaphysics"), consists of four parts
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1917· 2 entries
Studied at University of Paris, Bachelor of Arts (1914–1917).
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Guénon began a one-year stay at Sétif, Algeria, teaching philosophy to college students
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1912· 2 entries
Insisted on recalling that the purely religious concept of an immediate conversion did not apply to his case, indicating he had previous acquaintance with the Islamic faith
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In the journal La Gnose (Gnosis) (reprinted in the book Miscellanea) and another, published much later, in 1935: The Hindu doctrine of five elements (reprinted in the book Studies in Hinduism)
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1906· 1 entry
Studied at Collège-lycée Jacques-Decour (1904–1906).
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1905· 1 entry
Due to his health problems he abandoned the preparation for the prestigious École Polytechnique and École normale supérieure admission competitions
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1904· 1 entry
Awarded Concours général (1904).
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1903· 1 entry
Studied at Robert-Badinter School Complex (1902–1903).
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1895· 1 entry
By Carl Kellner and propagated in 1905 by Theodor Reuss, and the Golden Dawn, to which belongs a large number of key figures of the Anglo-Saxon "neo-spiritualism" of the early twentieth century etc
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1886· 2 entries
Born 1886-11-15.
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In Blois in central France 160 km (100 mi) from Paris
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1867· 1 entry
By Robert Wentworth Little, the "Order of the esoteric Rose-Cross" of Dr
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