As for Guénon's hypersensitiveness nothing could have been more
rectified, than a good measure of the father's slipper, but
apparently the father suffered the same obscure malady as his son,
which was probably added with a touch of parental molly-coddle. As
it stated in the Proverbs somewhere, "spare the rod and spoil the
child" and you're left with a milksop.
--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok" <vandermok@...>
wrote:
>
> The owner has been faster than me on Mabire. The quoted book
(Thulé, le soleil retrouvé des Hyperboréens, Laffont, Paris 1978)
has many oddities, for instance identifying the Philistines ...with
the Danes, and so on.
>
> About Guénon, we can say he had no cult of his own personality,
but a man who writes a book of 472 pages (Le Theosophisme) for
making flat Helena Blawatsky and her epigones, is rather interested
in personalities and their ideas. As already noted, he also made a
harsh polemic under the name of Sphinx that recently has been
resumed in a book of some kilogram of weight at 125 euros: 'L'énigme
de René Guénon et les Supérieurs inconnus' (...) by L. De Maistre
(pseudonym of an Italian, M. B.) Archè, Milano 2006 (...) Le combat
de Sphinx (Rene Guenon) avec G. Bord, C. Nicoullaud et alii. Vingt-
un textes tires de La Bastille, La France Antimaçonnique, Mysteria,
Revue Internat. des Soc. Secretes, etc..
>
> Finally, once again I remember that Guénon was not too nice with
Evola in his letters to Guido De Giorgio (see P. Feydel, 'Aperçus
historique touchant à la fonction de R. Guénon', Arché, Milano
2003), while Evola never said a word ('ad personam') against the
French metaphysician.
>
> In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com evola_as_he_is
<evola_as_he_is@...> wrote:
>
> The two tomes of 'Etudes sur la franc-maçonnerie et le
compagnonnage',
> Editions traditionnelles, Paris, 1980, are filled with 'reviews of
> articles' made by Guénon between 1933 and 1940, in which ad hominem
> attacks are not unfrequent ; out of the 314 pages of the first
tome,
> 217 are filled with these 'reviews of articles'. No matter the
papers
> he wrote for, from 'La France antimaçonnique', in which the Free-
Mason
> Guénon wrote under the pseudonym of 'Le Sphinx', to 'Le Voile
d'Isis',
> in which he collaborated to a column called 'Carnet de
l'occultiste',
> and 'Les Etudes Traditionnelles', the French metaphysician proved
to
> be a fierce polemist. Very few metaphysicians have devoted so much
> time and so much energy to controversy as he did. Therefore, it
cannot
> be said objectively that he "had no time for personalities", or
more
> precisely for individualities, when his activity proved exactly the
> contrary.
>
> Since we are not into hagiography and you mention another Frenchman
> whose figure, a few months after his death, seems to be undergoing
a
> process of mythologisation which had actually already started
during
> his lifetime, we strongly advise people against reading 'Thulé : le
> soleil retrouvé' : it propounds a large quantity of those
romanticist
> fabrications to which the Thule-Gesellschaft has given rise from
the
> aftermath of WW2 on, and which Hansen/Hakl has rightly considered
as
> such in his essay on National-Socialism and the occult ; nor do we
> advise anyone to read any of the 'doctrinal' books produced by this
> figure of the French so-called far-right, unless one wants to fully
> understand why Fascism failed innerly. On the other hand, we
strongly
> recommend people to read his 'war stories', especially 'La Panzer
> division SS Wiking', which deals with the 1942-1943 Ukrainian
> campaign. It is a master-piece. Mabire was mainly - if we may put
it
> this way in this context - a great tale-teller. People should
stick to
> what they know best instead of losing their way in matters about
which
> they don't have a clue. Since this list was opened, we haven't used
> and abused of the argument of authority, of the 'an acquaintance
of us
> has told us that..." part. If you'll permit us, a former
acquaintance
> of ours paying a visit to Mabire a few years ago in Normandy was
told
> by him : "I've never understood anything to Evola".
>
> --- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "darkiexx" <tristanarpe@>
wrote:
> >
> > I believe Guénon had no time for personalities. He was focused
on one
> > thing the centre.
> >
>