{"id":1219,"date":"2013-02-19T04:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T04:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2013-08-04T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T12:43:55","slug":"a-whos-who-of-traditionalism-and-english-translations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2013\/02\/a-whos-who-of-traditionalism-and-english-translations\/","title":{"rendered":"A Who’s Who of Traditionalism and English translations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Founder<\/strong>
\nOf whom nothing more need be said.
\nRen\u00e9 Gu\u00e9non<\/strong>: Metaphysician. In print with Sophia Perennis.<\/p>\n

Gruppo di Ur<\/strong>
\nAn Italian secret society which hit on the same truths as Gu\u00e9non.
\nJulius Evola<\/strong>: Roman\/pan-Aryan metaphysician. In print with Inner Traditions, Arktos, and private publishers.
\nGuido De Giorgio: Metaphysician. Being translated<\/a> at Gornahoor.
\nArturo Reghini: Italian esotericist. Currently being studied as a Ph.D. thesis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Independents<\/strong>
\nThose who lived around the 1910s-1940s, who had never read Gu\u00e9non despite holding similar views.
\nCharles Maurras: French political theorist. Being translated<\/a> at Gornahoor.
\nValentin Tomberg: Hermeticist, Catholic, and ex-Anthrosophist; anonymously published Meditations on the Tarot<\/i> has a mainstream publisher.
\nSh\u016bmei \u014ckawa: Japanese religious scholar; associate of Sri Aurobindo<\/a>; class-A war criminal. Translated for the first time on this blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Studies in Comparative Religion<\/em><\/strong>
\nA journal published 1963-1987 which codified Gu\u00e9non’s work as (religious) perennialism and brought it to wider notice among mainstream intellectuals. Their work is carried on by the excellent press World Wisdom<\/a> which, although it is not academic, is deeply respected by religious scholars of the right persuasion.
\nAnanda Coomaraswamy<\/strong>: Religionist. in print with World Wisdom, and out of print partially.
\nFrithjof Schuon<\/strong>: Religionist. In print with World Wisdom.
\nWilliam Stoddart: Scottish religionist, leaning Sufi. In print with World Wisdom.
\nMarco Pallis: Greek-British mountaineer who worked with the Tibetan community. In print with World Wisdom.
\nJean Hani: French esotericist. Published by Sophia Perennis. Died in 2012 at the age of about 98.
\nMartin Lings: English Sufi. In print with Islamic publishers.
\nTitus Burckhardt: English Sufi. In print with Fons Vitae<\/a>, another perennialist press.
\nMichel V\u00e2lsan: French Sufi. Out of print.
\nJean-Louis Michon: French Sufi. Still living (age 80).<\/p>\n

(Temenos Academy founders are not included here because they would make the list too long.)<\/p>\n

Academic perennialism<\/strong>
\nThose who read the perennialists and, without adopting any particular doctrine, took a sympathetic look at various religions. I regard these people as heroes of the very troubled field of comparative religion.
\nHuston Smith: American religionist. Still living (age 93).
\nSeyyed Hossein Nasr: Persian religionist. Still living (age 79).
\nMircea Eliade: Romanian mythologist. In print with major publishers.<\/p>\n

The generation after Studies<\/em><\/strong>
\nPeople born too late to contribute to Studies<\/em>, or who became aware of it after the fact.
\nAlgis U\u017edavinys: Lithuanian Pythagorean; died 2010. In print with World Wisdom and the The Matheson Trust.
\nJames Cutsinger: Eastern Christian and translator of Schuon (age 60). Published by The Matheson Trust.
\nCharles Upton: American, editor-in-chief of Sophia Perennis (age 65). His wife was an initiate with Schuon.
\nWolfgang Smith: American Catholic mathematician (age 83). In print with the Foundation for Traditional Studies.<\/p>\n

Neo-pagans<\/strong>
\nI argue that neo-pagan traditionalism misreads Evola. Even if they agree with his Traditional assertion that truth comes from principles and not from people, and that the latter should serve the former and not vice-versa, in practice they simply build ethno-fascist networks, and dumb his anti-Christianity down into racial neo-paganism. Actually in Sintesi di Dottrina della Razza<\/em> Evola says that true Traditional nobility had no need to appeal to myths, and that racial gods are the pitryana<\/em>, the lowly “way of the South”, while Tradition is the devayana<\/em>, the “divine way of the North”. Pitryana is not the way to spiritual liberation. Nevertheless many Traditionalists come to Evola via these politicos so you may see their names around.
\nAlain de Benoist: French neopagan. In print with Arktos etc.
\nKoenraad Logghe: Flemish neopagan.
\nNikolaos Michaloliakos: Greek neopagan, founder of Golden Dawn.
\nVarious Internet wingnuts who may or may not be worth reading.<\/p>\n

Notable post-Perennialists<\/strong>
\nReligionists influenced by Perennialism who nevertheless moved on and became influential in their own traditions.
\nJean Borella: French Catholic. Over 80 years old if still alive.
\nSeraphim Rose: Russian Orthodox hieromonk. In print with Orthodox presses.
\nHenri St\u00e9phane: Christian esotericist.<\/p>\n

Notable modern esotericists<\/strong>
\nJoscelyn Godwin: American esotericist and musicologist; translator of Evola. In his 60s.
\nYoshiro Tanaka: Japanese esotericist and translator of Gu\u00e9non; died 2012.
\nJohn Michael Greer: American esotericist, neo-pagan, and peak oilist.<\/p>\n

Observation<\/em>: The average lifespan of Traditionalists seems to be over 80 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Founder Of whom nothing more need be said. Ren\u00e9 Gu\u00e9non: Metaphysician. In print with Sophia Perennis. Gruppo di Ur An Italian secret society which hit on the same truths as Gu\u00e9non. Julius Evola: Roman\/pan-Aryan metaphysician. In print with Inner Traditions, Arktos, and private publishers. Guido De Giorgio: Metaphysician. Being translated at Gornahoor. Arturo Reghini: Italian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}