> "muh he doesn't prove anything!"
>"muh he just asserts things!"
The absolute state of hylics who think everyone's supposed to be doing analytic philosophy.
Guénon (PBUH) does not have to fabricate proofs, he's not spinning new arguments out of thin air to "convince" some normalfags who can't read.
His intellectual authority doesn't come from little syllogisms or empirical studies; it comes from being a hermeneutic interpreter of the Tradition.
Like 99% of his "claims" are straight up lifted, copy-pasted, or merely rephrased from the actual, ancient sources. We're talking direct pulls from the Futuhat or the Bhashyas, passages ripped right out of the Upanishads, Tantras, Daoist classics, and Mahayana Buddhist texts. He's not asserting, he's pointing to what's already there, what has been known for millennia by those initiated into the mysteries.
The last 1%? That's his personnal gnosis, direct insight and confirmation stemming from his own experience and knowledge as a high-ranking member of the Shadhiliyah order.