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René Guénon on True Esotericism, an essay by Dmitry Moiseev, published by Arktos.

Dmitry Moiseev challenges the misconception of superficial eclecticism and reveals a quest for universal Truth through the lens of René Guénon.

Individuals who have not taken the trouble to explore Traditionalism often sincerely believe that the subject of this intellectual movement is indistinguishable from crude, superficial eclecticism. Traditionalists indeed turn to various sources belonging to different spiritual cultures: Greco-Roman, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Christian. Based on identified parallels and using what they call the ‘traditional method’, they draw general conclusions. René Guénon clearly articulated the explanation and justification for such an approach in...

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https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/rene-guenon-on-true-esotericism

Allow a man's sperm to putrefy on its own in a test tube, sealing it in the highest degree of putrefaction in horse manure for the period of 40 days, or until it begins to live, move, and stir, which is easily seen can be. After this time it will be something like a human being, still transparent and without a body. Then, if it is carefully and prudently cared for every day and fed with the arcanum of human blood and kept in horse manure in a constant, equal heat for a period of 40 weeks, it will become a true, living child, with all its limbs of an infant, as born of a woman, but it will be much smaller. We call this homunculus or artificial (human?). And then he has to be raised with as much care and conscientiousness as any other child until he comes to his senses in more mature years. This, then, is a miracle and one of the greatest mysteries that God has made known to mortal and sinful man, and rightly it should be kept among the mysteries until the last days (the Apocalypse), when nothing will remain hidden, but all things come to light."

Paracelsus, in Sandrovigius: "On the Nature of Things", 16 Jh.