Traditionalism in Orthodox Christianity and Islam

Reprinted from: Traditionalism in Orthodox Christianity and Islam | Phora Nova

It is a well-known fact that Guenon (1886-1951), the founder of the ‘Traditionalist’ tradition, if you will, in the 20th century, became a Sufi.  Among his followers we might mention of course his near contemporary Julius Evola (1898-1974) and Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998).  Among the next generations we can note:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sherrard (1922-1995) – Orthodox Christian

7pp. introduction: https://www.orth-transfiguration.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Sherrard-Philp-Dearth-and-Res-of-Sacred-Cosmology-1992.pdf

The full text is here: https://ia600909.us.archive.org/0/items/PhilipSherrardHumanImageWorldImageTheDeathAndResurrectionOfSacredCosmology/Philip Sherrard – Human Image, World Image The Death and Resurrection of Sacred Cosmology_text.pdf

His earlier work goes into Orthodox Christianity in greater detail

It is not available free to my knowledge, but you may borrow it from the Wayback Machine here, and read it

https://archive.org/details/rapeofmannaturee0000sher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seyyed_Hossein_Nasr (1933-present) – Iranian Muslim – he is a brilliant writer, and strongly recommended for Traditionalists. He has written eloquently about the relationship between Traditionalism and Ecology (Eco-Fascism, if you will)

His most recent work on the Order of Nature as understood by Sufi Muslim Traditionalists is here:

https://traditionalhikma.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Religion-and-the-Order-of-Nature.pdf (2015)

His early ground-breaking work may be found here (1968):

https://epdf.pub/man-and-nature-the-spiritual-crisis-of-modern-manea36d964bc564d78a0ee5377723d030396962.html

I think comparing Sherrard and Nasr is an interesting project and that is what this thread is about.

and then, the Traditionalists of my generation and both my near contemporaries (though Greer and myself have read Guenon but do not consider ourselves his students, so far as I know.  I do consider myself a follower of Sherrard, however, and his books will explain a lot of my beliefs)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michael_Greer (The Arch Druid Report, 1962-present)

https://x.com/AGDugin (1962-present)

I recommend this book as an academic introduction to the above persons, but it mentions neither Greer nor Macrobius 🙂

Dugin, Trump, and Bannon are all mentioned towards the end.