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".
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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.
>