guenon

René Guenon if you're looking for a mystical, metaphysical approach to religion, especially Hinduism and Islam.

The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times - Rene Guenon (1945).

The Crisis of the Modern World by Rene Guenon 3.

There is a Wolf's guenon in the zoo, but that probably doesn't count as a risk because they mostly eat small animals and also are monkeys.

The Essential Rene Guenon (meta-tradition).

I've seen him referred to as fascist, nationalistic, anti-imperialist, anti-liberal, pro-Christian (specifically Orthodox), traditionalist (capital-T Traditionalism of René Guenon and Julius Evola), somehow beneficial to White nationalists and so on but I'm not so sure.

Until proven otherwise, I think Guenon was legit--that his ideas were his own, he took both the credit and the blame for them, and gave credit where it was due--as opposed to someone like Blavatsky who was a mascot, or someone like Huxley who was really more of an engineer, but delivering his blueprints in a wrapper of plausible deniability.

And if you are interested in such things, the more recent mystery schools--Theosophy (Blavatsky), Anthroposophy (Steiner), Perennialism (Guenon), Esalen (Huxley, " The Perennial Philosophy ")--are all good places to start.

If anyone wishes to pursue this topic of "quantization" further, I recommend "The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times" - a book by Rene Guenon [1].

That is, rather than try to justify the hypothesis (all religions as corrupted expressions of the same primordial truth) with a number of creative writing projects, Guenon suggested that "going deep" into one's own traditions--regardless of which--was a faster route to the destination.

Then Guenon, being a mathematician and a better thinker, chooses to operate in the opposite direction.

I think he was friend of Martin Lings, who was very close to the Perennialist School (René Guenon, Frithjof Schuon).

Guenon examines the direction the world is going to as a shift from quality to quantity, and with this simple analysis he covers topics ranging across democracy, science, art, crafts, production, etc.