In Western esotericism there appears to be a recurring metaphysical divide between immanent, soul-oriented vitalism (Becoming) and transcendent, spirit-oriented Platonism (Being).1. Soul-oriented / immanence-leaning thinkers (e.g., Ludwig Klages, John Lash, Michael Tsarion) emphasize life, psyche, myth, and a living, ensouled cosmos. They frequently draw on Sophianic myths, Dionysian mystery currents, Druidic and chthonic symbolism, and tend to treat the sacred as something embedded within Becoming and the Earth itself.2. Spirit-oriented / transcendence-leaning thinkers (e.g., Rene Guenon, Julius Evola, Nimrod de Rosario) emphasize a supra-cosmic Principle identified with immutable, Parmenidean Being, treating Becoming as ultimately illusory or derivative. They typically read Norse and Hyperborean symbolism as encoding a polar, pre-cosmic tradition of uncompromised transcendence before material or psychic descent.While these camps sometimes borrow similar myths and symbols, they diverge sharply on whether ultimate reality is to be re-entered through immanent life and soul or escaped through transcendent Spirit and metaphysical ascent.
yeah, there are basically two types of perennialism's, the right wing trad evola revolt against the modern world kind, or the psychedelic new age doors of perception Aldous Huxley kind
Your point?
>>24930090Just a replay of Plato/Aristotle, Apollo/Dionysus, etc.Protip: go with Plato
>>24930100Spirit-oriented is the right path. Soul-oriented is for fags and pussies.
>>24930124Spirit oriented is for life deniers and (spiritual) jews
>>24930099I presume Jung is the middle way?
Dion Fortune made a similar distincion between "magus" and "mystic".>The mystic, in the classical Christian sense, is one who strips away all the elements of this world in order to free that spark of the divine within us to fIy upwards to its natural place with the divine. The magus fulfills the same task by embedding themselves into this world and by calling the divine down to their own level.but i agree with this anon>>24930109esotericists steal all their material from real philosophers, but are usually worse writers and add some of that "revealed to me in a dream, i can show you how, but only in cryptic allegories" as OC.
>>24930169how to become magus?
>>24930217Giordano Bruno - Magusmaxxing for Dummies
>>24930217initiation into hermetics - franz bardon
