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Vectors of the Counter-Initiation - The Course and Destiny of Inverted Spirituality (Paperback, New)
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Vectors of the Counter-Initiation - The Course and Destiny of Inverted Spirituality (Paperback, New)
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VectorsBackCover French philosopher Rene Guenon (1886-1951), who
spent many years searching for a true esoteric Way, crossed paths
with many false and subversive spiritualities before arriving at
the threshold of Islamic Sufism. In his prophetic masterpiece The
Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times he classed the worst
of these spiritualities as examples of the Counter-Initiation.
Anti-Tradition-secularism and materialism-opposes religion;
Counter-Tradition inverts it; and the esoteric essence of
Counter-Tradition is the Counter-Initiation. The author expands on
this concept, recognizing the action of the Counter-Initiation in
such areas as the politicizing of the interfaith movement, the
anti-human tendencies in the environmental movement, the growing
interest in magic and sorcery, the involvement of the intelligence
communities in the fields of UFO investigation and psychedelic
research, the history of Templarism and Freemasonry, and the
de-Islamicization of the famous Sufi poet, Jalaluddin Rumi. Vectors
of the Counter-Initiation is conceived of as a sequel to The System
of Antichrist: Truth and Falsehood in Postmodernism and the New Age
Sophia Perennis, 2001]. The Counter-Initiation has six main
features: syncretism; inverted hierarchy; deviated esoterism; the
granting of the temporal transmission of spiritual lore precedence
over the vertical descent of Revelation; the reduction of religion
to utilitarianism (magic) and esoterism to a purely technical
knowledge (Promethean spirituality); and the mis-application of the
norms of the individual spiritual Path to the supposed spiritual
evolution of the collective. The Counter-Initiation is the ego's
idea of spirituality. It appears in the Old Testament as the
Serpent in the garden, Cain's murder of Abel, the "sons of God who
looked upon the daughters of men and found them fair," the Tower of
Babel, the degeneration of Sodom, and the magicians of Pharaoh whom
Moses defeated. In the New Testament it is personified by Judas,
and in the Qur'an by the figure of as-Samiri, who forged the Golden
Calf, and the angels Harut and Marut-testers of man by God's
design-who taught magic to the human race in Babylon. For both
traditions, it is destined to culminate in Antichrist. This book
brings together two schools of thought: the Traditionalists or
Perennialists (writers on comparative religion and traditional
metaphysics) and the conspiracy theorists who are investigating the
origin, nature, and plans of the New World Order. The NWO
researchers can throw a penetrating light on the social and
political dangers presently threatening the Perennialists, while
the Perennialists can provide these researchers with a deeper and
wider spiritual context for their vision of human evil. In Guenon's
time the Counter-Initiation appeared in terms of this or that
secret society operating in the shadowy underworld of European
occultism; it has now come up into the open, and moved inexorably
toward the centers of global power. In the words of American
Eastern Orthodox priest Seraphim Rose, "in our time Satan has
walked naked into human history."
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