Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century

Dugin may be going too far in seeing Gue´non as an unrealized Marx (a parallel that might cast Dugin as a new Lenin, though Dugin himself does not draw this second parallel).

The normal length of a loud dhikr is about one hour, during which Sufis sit in a circle or stand in rows (depending on the order) and together repeat short prayers, usually moving their upper bodies to the rhythm of the prayer. The Basel dhikr sessions, however, started at 8 p.m. and often went on until 1 a.m. or 2…

В 1931 году Элиаде вернулся в Румынию и в 1933-м успешно защитил диссертацию. Он начал преподавать в Бухарестском университете и быстро стал одной из тех фигур, которые характерны для таких маленьких стран, как Румыния, - универсальным интеллектуалом: учёным, культурным критиком, журналистом и писателем.

То, что все эти альтернативные течения группировались вместе, очень хорошо объясняется концепцией "культовой среды", предложенной социологом Брайаном Уилсоном. По мнению Уилсона, в современных западных обществах существует некая среда, которую он называет "культовой", в которой сосредотачивается многое из того, что…

"...Попытки захватить намеченные цели в Риме провалились, не успев толком начаться, и во всем замысле обнаружилось столько характерных элементов фарса (например, заговорщики, направляясь арестовывать главу римской полиции, переполнили лифт, он застрял и они провели в нем целую ночь), что суд отказался квалифицировать все…

“Hard” Traditionalism has been rejected not only by progressives and by the mainstream of twentieth-century Western history, but by two other distinct groups: fully traditional people, and most scholars. Almost the entire population of the Arab world has ignored Traditionalism, evidently because the Arab world is not…

The most traditional countries of the Islamic world have shown the least interest in Traditionalism. Guenon is unknown in Egypt today, and Arabic is one of the few major languages in which almost no Traditionalist works are available.

Some Schuonians came to see Schuon as an avatar, a Hindu term for a divine incarnation. Stories began to circulate of Schuon’s spiritual rank being recognized by lions and elephants, and of his future rank being acknowledged by the archbishop of Strasbourg when Schuon was a child in Mulhouse. There were even stories of…

The Legionary Movement, according to Eliade, was distinct from all others in being spiritual rather than political. Whereas Communism acted in the name of economics, Fascism in the name of the state, and Nazism in the name of race, the Legionary Movement acted in the name of Christianity.

Even his birth, Schuon was told, had been attended by a sign: the hospital in which he was born had been struck by lightning and all the clocks had stopped. To some, this might not have seemed a good start, especially for someone whose first name literally meant “thief of peace.”