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Excellent review. Thanks for sharing it. I have a couple of shorter essays that Dugin wrote on Traditionalism: One is on how Evola's traditionalism influenced Russian dissident philosophical thought in the 70s, or so (that is to say, the influence on Dugin himself, but he mentions others). The other is a more recent piece within a book that is more generally about the concept of Traditionalism and its progenitors and its development over the past 100 years or so. Dugin's piece is more or less the introductory essay and is specifically about the Guenon and language of Traditionalism. It's a Kindle book (for now) so I'm trying to see how to extract a portion of it and convert to pdf form without too much trouble. If you're interested I can send them to you.

Also, as a side note regarding both Dugin and, especially, Russia right now, there are a couple of interesting (to me) statements by Edgar Cayce on Russia back from 1932 and 1944. [I don't read Cayce a lot but I know people who do and, as with most aspects of this Awakening time, I feel we must be ready to triangulate "the truth" from as many different perspectives as necessary. How seriously we take Cayce, well, I suppose the mileage varies, as with anyone, but these readings are, as I said, especially interesting because of their timeframe as well as the hopeful message they present in light of what we are seeing right now "from Russia", except not from the mainstream media.

Anyway, here it is from (I think) the cayce.org website (took a screen capture of what I found but did not record the source):

"Edgar Cayce gave 29 readings from 1921 to 1944 that have been grouped together as 'World Affairs Readings' ... These readings twice mention that 'out of Russia will come the hope of the world.' ... The first statement, given in 1932, specifically mentions Russia's gradual religious development. The second, given in 1944, seems to suggest that it is rather the concern of the Russian people for their fellow man that is the basis for this hope. There is also a suggestion that an equitable partnership between Russia and the United States could become beneficial for both as Russia possesses more raw resources than any other nation and the U.S. has better abilities to develop those resources."

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Sorry, I did not realize how long my comment was until I posted.

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