René Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon, also known by his Islamic name Abdalwahid Yahia, was a French-Egyptian intellectual who lived from 1886 to 1951 and wrote on esotericism, what he called sacred science and traditional studies, symbolism and initiation. He proposed to transmit eastern metaphysics and traditions, which he held to be of universal character, to western readers while remaining strictly faithful to their spirit. Initiated into Islamic esotericism from 1910, when he was twenty four, Guénon wrote and published mainly in French, and his works have since been translated into more than twenty languages; he also wrote an article in Arabic for the journal Al Marifah.
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Urged on by some of his friends and collaborators, Guénon agreed to establish a new Masonic Lodge in France founded upon his "Traditional ideals", purified of what he saw as the inauthentic accretions which so bedeviled other lodges he had encountered during his early years in Paris.
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Rene Jean-Marie-Joseph Guenon (15 November 1886 - 7 January 1951)
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In his writings, Guénon proposes to hand down eastern metaphysics and traditions, these doctrines being defined by him as of "universal character", and adapt them to western readers "while keeping strictly faithful to their spirit".
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René Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon (15 November 1886-7 January 1951), also known as Abdalwahid Yahia (Arabic: عبد الـواحد يحيی; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Yaḥiā), was a French-Egyptian intellectual who wrote on topics ranging from esotericism, "sacred science" and "traditional studies" to symbolism and initiation.
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Initiated into Islamic esotericism from as early as 1910 when he was 24, Guénon mainly wrote and published in French, and his works have been translated into more than twenty languages; he also wrote in Arabic an article for the journal Al Marifah.
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Originating in the thought of René Guénon in the 20th century, it proposes that a single primordial, metaphysical truth forms the source for, and is shared by, all the major world religions.
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