An unfortunate misunderstanding has been propagated on the
Internet based on a misreading of a passage of “Heidnischer Imperialismus”.
On page 252 of the Mediterranee edition, we would like to
translate this passage as such:
<<We, on the contrary, basing ourselves on a tradition much older
and more effective than that which the “faith” of Western man can
lay claim to, a tradition not proved by doctrines, but by deeds and works of
power and vision, they affirm instead the possibility and the concrete reality
of what we have called “Wisdom”.>>
This paragraph appears in the context of a discussion of the difference
between "knowledge" and "Wisdom" -- a distinction that is
absolutely foundational to any understanding of Guénon, Evola, or any other
traditional metaphysician.
It is simply the claim that there is a higher faculty of the mind ("intuition")
than mere reason, and that without this faculty, metaphysical doctrines simply
cannot be understood. The claim to a special power of "seeing" is
similarly the claim of the rishis (literally "seers") who composed
the Vedas.
As such, this claim is hardly outrageous … to
misunderstand it would make the works of Guenon and Evola opaque; to reject it
puts one in the rather odd position of accepting their conclusions while
rejecting the path that led to them.
What is more interesting is how, for Evola, this “seeing”
took him in a racial direction, whereas in Guenon’s case, it seems not to
have done so.
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