Post by offramp on Jul 5, 2020 9:02:48 GMT
Here is someone I really ought to have known about before this year.
His name is René Guénon and he is famous in France, where they seem to value philosophers more than we do in the UK.
You can read lots of his letters at hermes-thot-archives.blogspot.com/2020/07/guenon-correspondance-avec-alain.html .
His name is René Guénon and he is famous in France, where they seem to value philosophers more than we do in the UK.
You can read lots of his letters at hermes-thot-archives.blogspot.com/2020/07/guenon-correspondance-avec-alain.html .
As a young student in Paris, Guénon observed and became involved with ... Gérard Encausse, alias Papus. Guénon soon discovered that the Esoteric Christian Martinist order, supervised by Papus, was irregular. He joined the Gnostic Church founded by Leoncé Fabre des Essarts (known as Tau Synesius.
Under the name Tau Palingenius Guénon became the founder and main contributor of a periodical review, La Gnose (Gnosis), writing articles for it until 1922. From his incursions into the French occultist and pseudo-Masonic orders, he despaired of the possibility of ever gathering these diverse and often ill-assorted doctrines into a "stable edifice". In his book The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times he also pointed out what he saw as the intellectual vacuity of the French occultist movement, which, he wrote, was utterly insignificant, and more importantly, had been compromised by the infiltration of certain individuals of questionable motives and integrity.
Following his desire to join a regular Masonic obedience, he became a member of the Thebah Lodge of the Grande Loge de France following the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
Under the name Tau Palingenius Guénon became the founder and main contributor of a periodical review, La Gnose (Gnosis), writing articles for it until 1922. From his incursions into the French occultist and pseudo-Masonic orders, he despaired of the possibility of ever gathering these diverse and often ill-assorted doctrines into a "stable edifice". In his book The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times he also pointed out what he saw as the intellectual vacuity of the French occultist movement, which, he wrote, was utterly insignificant, and more importantly, had been compromised by the infiltration of certain individuals of questionable motives and integrity.
Following his desire to join a regular Masonic obedience, he became a member of the Thebah Lodge of the Grande Loge de France following the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
Urged on by some of his friends and collaborators, Guénon agreed to establish a new Masonic Lodge in France founded upon his "Traditional" ideals, purified of what he saw as the inauthentic accretions which so bedeviled other lodges he had encountered during his early years in Paris. This lodge was called La Grande Triade, a name inspired by the title of one of Guénon's books. The first founders of the lodge, however, separated a few years after its inception. Nevertheless, this lodge, belonging to the Grande Loge de France, remains active today.