This is why all those ‘Tradionalists’ that converted to Islam (Guenon, Schuon, etc.), were completely baffled by the Trinity. They couldn’t comprehend the love of God, nor the humility of God; for them God was just intellect.
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Replying to @autisticinsight @NocturnalSatyr
You must have a bit of a warped view of both Guénon and Schuon, they never ascribed 'Intellect' to 'God', while Guénon has written extensively on the Trinity, never stating that it is false or contradictory
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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist @NocturnalSatyr
I’m being a bit hyperbolic, but I think if you read what they said on the trinity they either do not understand the orthodox conception, or do not want to understand. Philip Sherrard wrote about this. Charles Utpton (a Sufi) also has an article somewhere saying something similar.
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& by intellect, I am merely saying their abstract ‘God’ is entirely mental & rationalistic. I’m somewhat biased as I don’t think revelation based religions are compatible with any form of perennialism or super abstract metaphysics.
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Replying to @autisticinsight @NocturnalSatyr
Haha interesting, the first man I read that critiqued all forms of rationalism or other mental faculties is Guénon, he devotes multiple chapters on destroying rationalism and empiricism, philosophical systems, mental inventions, etc
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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist @NocturnalSatyr
I am coming from a viewpoint that is best expressed in someone like W. Blake, or by a more orthodox figures like J.G. Hamann, & Kierkegaard. I don’t see how Guénon doesn’t just restate some very fundamental problems that end with the same fall into something like spinozism.
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Replying to @autisticinsight @NocturnalSatyr
He explicitly refutes Spinozism tho... what fundamental problems does Guenon restate?
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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist @NocturnalSatyr
I don’t think his, or really anyone’s, explanation of how you get multiplicity from the monad, or how the one & the many can coexist, is satisfactory. Mabye I just don’t understand Vedanta or something. Panetheism just seems hard to avoid. Mabye I am just polluted with Nietzsche.
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Replying to @autisticinsight @NocturnalSatyr
Have you read Guénons metaphysical works?
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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist @NocturnalSatyr
Like five or six of his books, along with quite a bit of Evola, Schuon & Coomaraswamy.
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Interesting, what did you find lacking about the 'argument' about the multiple states of the Being?
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