Counter-Initiation: Critical Remarks on Some Aspects of the Doctrine of ...

Дата публикации: 26-09-2026 10:00:00

Counter-Initiation: Critical Remarks on Some Aspects of the Doctrine of René Guénon
by Alexander Dugin
The question of “counter-initiation” is the most shrouded and ambiguous in all of Traditionalist thought. Perhaps this is a consequence of the very reality which Traditionalists, following Guénon, usually denote with the term “counter-initiation.”The meaning of counter-initiation is set out by René Guénon in his book The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times.
In brief, we can say that Guénon understands counter-initiation to be a whole set of secret organizations which, although in possession of initiatic and esoteric data, nonetheless direct their activities and efforts towards a goal which is the direct opposite of normal initiation, i.e., not towards attaining the absolute, but towards fatal disappearance and dissolution amidst the “reign of quantity” in its external twilight. In line with Islamic esotericism, Guénon called the hierarchs of counter-initiation Awliya es-Shaytan, that is to say the “saints of Satan.” From Guénon’s point of view, representatives of counter-initiation stand behind all the negative tendencies of modern civilization and are secretly steering the course of affairs down the path of degradation, materialization, and spiritual degeneration.
Since, according to Tradition, the logic of the cyclical process inevitably boils down to a path of degradation, from the Golden Age to the Iron Age. it follows that there should be certain conscious forces contributing to this process just as, conversely, the forces of true initiation and genuine esotericism try to impede this fatal decline by all means. This historical dualism of Guénon’s in no way affects the metaphysical unity of the Principle, insofar as it belongs to the sphere of manifestation, where the main law is that of duality. This duality at the very heart of manifestation is overcome only upon going beyond the manifest into the sphere of the transcendental. Within the world, dualism is indelible. Thus, the role of counter-initiation is partly justified, since it is rooted not in arbitrariness, but in the very providential necessity tied to the laws of the cosmos.
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