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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times

by René Guénon

Guénon's most systematic critique of modernity, written in Cairo, which interprets the modern world as the final phase of a cosmic cycle in which quantity replaces quality. It also develops his notions of counter-initiation and pseudo-spirituality.

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