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Re: Guenon and Hyperborea

Considering that both Evola and Guenon regarded
Blavatsky as a dangerous fraud, surely neither one
derived any of their beliefs from her. The idea of the
polar origins of Indo-European man was an idea that
was considered by many people in the 19th century -
most important was probably the Hindu nationalist Bal
Tilak, who wrote a number of books which cited textual
(astronomical) evidence in the Vedas which supports
the idea that they were composed by people living at
the pole rather than in the region of India. I know
that Tilak was cited by Evola, and I believe I've come
across his name in Guenon's writings as well. In the
case of Guenon, it is also worth mentioning that, as
he was a practicing Muslim, the idea of the poles is
very important in Sufi cosmology, and a polar origin
to mankind is posited in several classical Islamic
texts.

Race is definitely not as important to Guenon as it
was to Evola (particularly indicated by the fact that
Guenon chose to practice Islam, a Semitic religion,
something which it would be difficult to imagine Evola
advocating) - however, I wouldn't go so far as to say
that Guenon did not take race into account at all. For
example, in his essay on Guenon in the journal Sophia,
Martin Lings (Guenon's assistant in his final years)
mentioned, in the course of explaining Guenon's
interest in Hinduism as the living tradition which is
closest to the primordial tradition, the following:
"Another point which makes the terms of Hinduism so
right for giving Europeans the message [of Tradition]
is that they have as Aryans an affinity with
Hinduism..." So, clearly, race was not completely
unimportant in Guenon's view of things.


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Tue Oct 3, 2006 4:27 pm

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Original Theosophy, Guenon and Evola all share the belief in the Hyperborean, polar origins of mankind and a subsequent solidification and devolution. The main...
brightimperator Offline Send Email Oct 3, 2006
11:37 am

Considering that both Evola and Guenon regarded Blavatsky as a dangerous fraud, surely neither one derived any of their beliefs from her. The idea of the polar...
Michael Lord
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Oct 5, 2006
10:05 am

I believe Guénon had no time for personalities. He was focused on one thing the centre....
darkiexx Offline Send Email Oct 5, 2006
10:18 pm

The two tomes of 'Etudes sur la franc-maçonnerie et le compagnonnage', Editions traditionnelles, Paris, 1980, are filled with 'reviews of articles' made by...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Oct 6, 2006
11:42 am

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...
vandermok
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Oct 6, 2006
2:59 pm

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...
darkiexx Offline Send Email Oct 7, 2006
12:13 pm

Gentlemen, I was only looking at this provocative issue last night regarding the hyperborean mythos. Guenon wrote a very good essay on the matter in "Symbols...
darkiexx Offline Send Email Oct 5, 2006
10:21 pm

This matter has already been partly tackled on this list, as far as Evola is concerned. As early as 1928, in 'Critica del teosofismo', the third chapter...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Oct 5, 2006
10:40 pm

Joscelyn Godwin's book 'Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival' could perhaps be of use to you....
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10:17 pm

Most of the idea of Guénon on the polar origin and the races/castes have been written under the name of 'Palingénius' in 'L'Archeomètre' on the magazine 'La...
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