Please don't ascribe him these qualities (like "sentimentalist" and "fascist" - he's like the complete opposite) without reading him. I also disagree with you COMPLETELY about the Renaissance and Enlightenment being the true high points of spirituality, human accomplishment, free discourse and creativity. This is what I would term the satanistic worldview, or as Guenon would say: "Satan is the ape of God." You are presenting the horrible proceedings that set path for the now pretty obvious ruin of life as progress - don't fool yourself that these were the good times, somehow unrelated to what is happening in the world right now.Guenon is of that lineage from the Martinists, and particularly rad-trad Catholic and Mason Count Joseph de Maistre. His major influence is fascist and authoritarian albeit in the Bakunin "Third-positionist" anarcho-syndicalist closet authoritarian variety. These people are generally insane sentimentalist writers. I have to warn just how epistemologically unsound they are. The Renaissance and Enlightenment were true high points of spirituality, human accomplishment, free discourse and creativity. These periods of time go against everything the Martinist/Traditionalist lineage stands for.
And the Martinist/Traditionalist type worldview today is one side of the coin to the technocratic capitalist nihilist world view. Both views are maladaptive worldviews which fit into long term elite agendas. What the elite hate is the Renaissance and some aspects of the Enlightenment.
I was just reading a book about the hygienic conditions and illnesses in the Western world around 1800 - the West (especially the cities) was an absolute disgrace, a Hell on Earth if there ever was one. And this is called Enlightenment, LOL!
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