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Title: The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times by Rene Guenon, Lord Northbourne ISBN: 0-900588-67-5 Publisher: Sophia Perennis Et Universalis Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Best Book Money Can Buy
Comment: It's extremely unfortunate that this book, "The Reign of Quantity" is out of print since it's the only book that presents a successful structural critique of "evolutionary" spirituality -- the cutting-edge of western propaganda.

Guenon's insights from the 1940s are even more relevant today since he described so well the nascent New Age scene and it's ability to lure potentially level-headed people into a cloud of deception.

Apparently Ramana Maharshi, the guru and sage promoter of Advaita Vedanta through self-enquiry, called R. Guenon, "the Great Sufi" and Guenon's associates visited Ramana Maharshi.

According to the website www.realization.org Ramana Maharshi stated, "There is no evolution."

Guenon argues this case in the context of the spiritual cycles of space-time based on the ratios 1:2:3:4.

Guenon's degree thesis in France was on the calculus and transcendental values.

"The Reign of Quantity" is the only book that develops the logic that western math, starting with the squaring of the circle, is inherently unjust, disharmonic and representative of the Kali Yuga.

This is the only book that cuts through the b.s. and gives the reader a clear view of current times but at the same time a clear vision of how to cut through these times.

Guenon gives great detail to the disharmonic forces that even call themselves "traditionalists" based on his writing yet are not accurate representatives of his work.

This inaccuracy proved to be the case with the two other so-called "traditionalist" founders -- Schuon and Evola.

Unfortunately Guenon's work has been dismissed by those who have not read him and Guenon's work has been ignored since it is too radical.

Hopefully, after Oxford University Press's forthcoming book on traditionalism, there will be a reprint of "the Reign of Quantity"

drew hempel

Rating: 4
Summary: Worth Reading
Comment: Probably the most penetrating and scathing onslaught of the Modern World to be written from the perspective of cyclical order of time in the Twentieth Century by a French mathematician who converted to Islam and who articulated the perennial philosophy with an extraordinary insight and foresight. His works stand out because his critiquing platform is from the Oriental Metaphysical perspective. While some of his criticisms are a bit extreme, there is enough substance here to provoke a serious evaluation of our current epistemological crisis in the West.

Rating: 3
Summary: if only he could write
Comment: Guenon's ideas, leaving aside his relentless negativity, provide plenty of food for thought -- that is, if you can somehow extract them from his tortured prose, which is full of page-length sentences, convoluted logic, meaningless parenthetical asides, dependent clauses, and so on. Exactly the sort of bad, no, terrible writing we have come to expect from the intellectual class. I recommend that you read Julius Evola instead. It's the same thing only better stated. Much better stated.

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