Category: Traditionalism
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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
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):
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.
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The Death Throes of Modernity
After an OP discussing this substack by Charles Hugh-Smith: Last Gasp of the Landfill Economy
at the Phora (a private forum) https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/the-death-throes-of-modernity.1984
… I wrote:
The background to my ‘predictions’ thread[1] was a comprehensive statement of what I called the ‘Goodwin-Greer Synthesis’ (in some discussions of this topic I use my patronymic rather than the name of my old blog https://macrobius.blogspot.com)
[1]: https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/macrobius-makes-predictions-for-2025-2026.1680/
The ‘writeup’ of the predictions was in fact a popularisation, originally intended for a twitter account which I was obliged to nuke because X wouldn’t stop billing me when I wanted to downgrade from ‘paid’ service, and failed to respond to my messages.
Among the Traditionalists being discussed, in contrast to the Modernists (everyone else), I note the variance of views among Orthodox Christians — notably, Sherrard, who like Father Seraphim Rose, rejects Guenon; Dugin, who is both Orthodox Christian *and* profoundly a follower of Guenon, and myself, who stand with Sherrard on this point, but not to the extent I consider the matter beyond discussion, for reasons that should be evident, namely I am unlike Sherrard and Dugin, a modern Scientist and Nuclear Physicist, as well as a computer technologist.
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