Theosophism: Rene Guenon’s Cut at the Roots of Modern Pseudoreligions
Rene Guenon’s book Theosophism: A History of Pseudo-Religion is more than just a demolition of 19th Century quack religion: it is, as our friend Deirdre of Luminar Podcast demonstrates in this video, a critique of some fundamental principles modern people take to be absolute truths – the uneasy fact that Theosophism was, and in certain circles still is, quite an adequate religion for people who fancy themselves world leaders.
Ananda Deirdre
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Yes, a very good book, along with its (somewhat) follow-up one: The spiritist error (or fallacy as it is translated into English).
When one analyses the ideas and the mental framework of most new-age/occultist groups down to our day, one can see clearly that almost all of them have some identifiable root in either theosophism (usually the more intellectual groups) or spiritism (usually the ones for the masses- which is new-age properly speaking).
Of course, they have been, in the meantime, with some more recent conceptions and intellectual fashions (which is to say, they have been “updated”), yet the roots still remain visible.
Funny enough, Guénon’s “traditionalism” is itself a pseudo-religion.
Really? And what is that “traditionalism religion” of Guenon?