Aristasia is the post-1980s name of a group which, in slightly different form, was earlier known as The Romantics and The Olympians. It was started in the English university city of Oxford in the late…
Tag: traditionalism
Mark Sedgwick on Kathleen Raine and Prince Charles of Wales
One of the most successful European attempts to introduce Traditionalism to the general public was sponsored by the English poet and literary critic Kathleen Raine. While Raine was an undergraduate student at Cambridge in the…
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Mark Sedgwick on Traditionalism & the Green
Traditionalist anti-modernism is not what made Small Is Beautiful a success, however, nor even Gurdjieffian spirituality. What was most appreciated were the elements of the book that argued for conservation of natural resources – arguments…
Mark Sedgwick on Freemasonry & Catholicism
In addition to these activities, [Jean] Tourniac was involved in an ambitious Traditionalist project to restore good relations between Masonry and the Catholic Church. This project was principally the work of a Jesuit priest, Michel…
Mark Sedgwick on Isabelle Eberhardt
Aguéli was not the only Western Sufi of the early twentieth century, though he is the first Westerner known to have established a genuine branch of a Sufi order, however small, in Europe. Perhaps the…
Mark Sedgwick on appropriation
De Pouvourville was also the source of another important conviction of Guénon, that the West was under threat. De Pouvourville was preoccupied by the need to the defend of the “white races” against the “yellow…
Mircea Eliade on temptations
· C.-H. Rocquet · You spoke of temptations. […] In what sense do you mean that you were “tempted” during your anamnesis as a historian of religions? · M. Eliade · When you grasp the coherence, and…
Mircea Eliade on the history of religions as another hermeneutics of suspicion
· C.-H. Rocquet · For you, not only does the history of religions transform the person who devotes himself to it in an inner, spiritual way, it can also give new life to the sacred in…
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Mark Sedgwick on Julius Evola
Although almost all my notes remained legible despite the fire and water in my borrowed apartment, I had to get a new copy of Evola’s Riding the Tiger, a book I’d brought with me to…