René Guénon
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René Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon (15 November 1886 – 7 January 1951), also known as Abdalwâhid Yahiâ (Arabic: عبد الـوٰاحد يحيیٰ; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Yaḥiā), was a French intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics, having written on topics ranging from esotericism, "sacred science" and "traditional studies" to symbolism and initiation. In his writings, he claims to hand down eastern religious traditions and adapt them to western readers "while keeping strictly faithful to their spirit". This claim has been challenged by some historians, who situate Guénon within Orientalist discourse.Initiated into Islamic esotericism from as early as 1910 when he was 24, he mainly wrote and published in French, and his works have been translated into more than twenty languages; he also wrote in Arabic an article for the journal Al Marifah. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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- Ivan Illich
- Frithjof Schuon
- Titus Burckhardt
- Whitall Perry
- Julius Evola
- Aleksandr Dugin
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Olavo de Carvalho
- Martinist Order
- Tage Lindbom
- André Coyné
- Henri Stéphane
- Jean Borella
- Mihai Vâlsan
- Wolfgang Smith
- Kurt Almqvist
- Harry Oldmeadow
- Jean-Louis Michon
- Mateus Soares de Azevedo
- Michael O. Fitzgerald
- Walter James, 4th Baron Northbourne
- The Intelligence of Faith
- Steve Bannon
- Paul Cudenec
- Mircea Eliade
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