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René Guénon: Good Guy or Bad Guy?

by Charles Upton

Henry Makow suggested this title–and I wish it were that simple. René Guénon [1886-1951] started a movement to return the western world to an understanding of traditional metaphysics, and succeeded in a modest but very real way; he and the writers that followed him–the Traditionalist or Perenialist School, including Ananda Coomaraswamy, Frithjof Schuon, Martin Lings, Titus Burckhardt and Seyyed Hossein Nasr (the last four were/are Muslims)–have produced the best introduction to the metaphysics and esoterism of the world religions we have. But Guénon was the only member of the School who also dipped into investigative reporting to expose the dark side of esoterism. This led him to the notion that there was a “Counter-Tradition” and a “Counter-Initiation” that was working, through various secret societies, to pervert true religion, and ultimately turn the world over to Luciferian forces. Between the world wars he involved himself with nearly every occult group available in France at that time, so he saw the evils of that world first hand. Then, when he finally broke with occultism and began to study the esoteric aspects of the world religions (which he saw as entirely legitimate) he published two books exposing the evils of the occult: The Spiritualist Imposture and Theosophy, the History of a Pseudo-Religion.

Guénon showed us how esoterism has both a light and a dark side, and exposed the relationship between a perverted, Luciferian metaphysics and the organized evil that rules today’s world; in my books The System of Antichrist and Vectors of the Counter-Initiation I’ve tried to expand on some of his findings. René Guénon did not emerge unscathed, however, from his years as an occultist. Raised a Catholic, he finally converted to Islam, was initiated into a traditional Sufi order, and spend the rest of his life in Egypt–but his answer to those who wanted him to act as a spiritual Master was that his soul had been so damaged by his earlier occult connections that he was not fit to play that role. And it took him quite a while to get rid of all the occult influences on his thinking. His main error was the idea that Freemasonry, once “purified” and reconstructed, could work as a legitimate form of “esoteric” Catholicism. He could never see that Masonry perfectly fit his own description of a Counter-Initiatory society. Also, a lot of his present-day followers in Europe (certainly not all) are more-or-less crypto-Nazis–though I can’t imagine that Guénon would accept such followers today, since while he lived was mostly a-political. As for the Perennialist School, it has its own dark side (in common with most religions and spiritual groups), and seems to be uncertain whether or not to accept patronage from the Globalists. But its best spiritual writings are still second to none.

Those who’ve realized that they can only save their souls through spiritual knowledge can learn a lot from Guénon, and whoever suspects that there is an occult, Luciferian side to the NWO can get valuable pointers from him. But you need to read him critically. Before you can pick out his contradictions you have to understand him, and that’s easier said than done; he’s a 

difficult writer. Nonetheless, if you accept that metaphysics, and the traditional prophesies about the End Times we get from all the world religions, are becoming more and more relevant to an understanding of the agendas of the powers that be, “the rulers of the darkness of this world”, then René Guénon–especially in his prophetic masterpiece The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times–can really open your eyes.