I reconize exactly one of the religions that the Shirou fan is yammering about, that being Theosophy, and that’s ONLY because it has a SLIGHT bit of influence on my own belief of Armanism, I’m lost lol
Most European esoteric writers didn't like Indians at all. They were just pagans who saw hinduism as the last remaining unbroken line to primordial aryan beliefs. They knew that the people practicing it today are not the founders of it, but still found value in the beliefs themselves.
Kali Yuga is actually a good example of something of legitimate value left in hinduism.
Unfortunately they were wrong about it being unbroken, and there is absolutely a great deal of "untouchable" influence on hinduism since the caste system was rugpulled by the mughals and the British onward.
I doubt that evola or guenon would have given a single fuck about Indians themselves, considering they *arent* aryan. Let alone like them at all.
Evola was a rigid believer in the caste system and believed that crossing caste lines - on a racial and social basis - was a *big fucking deal*. I'm pretty sure that a man as smart as he is knew of the implications this had for modern India.
The Orientalists were just insufferable libertines thinking that Buddhism would allow them to live their degenerate fantasies out because in truth they just hated the (rightful) confines that Christianity placed on their degeneracy. So of course they ended up practicing what is basically the Buddhist equivalent of Pre-Millenial Dispensationalism, that is hippie libertinism wrapped up in a mantle of pseudo-theological spiritualism.
Also, pretty sure Theosophy is a jewish psyop, it has some definite Gnostic undertones to it.
I'm an Armanist, Theosophy somewhat inspired Von List's reconstruction and his ideas, but looked at the Wikipedia page for it and man does Theosophy sound like a gay version of Armanism lol, for example I believe in worth, not "spiritual emancipation", I believe in good by ones race and tribe, and not "universal brotherhood" ETC ETC.
"Universal Brotherhood" is a concept thats been completely twisted by the jews because removing Christ from the equation makes it impossible. Originally it just meant that because all men were made in God's image, we should stop taking advantage of and abusing one another, and respect the natural cultural boundaries that God gave us. Jews have twisted it into basically dissolving all culture and uniqueness into a global cosmopolitan sludge.
The fundamental premise of perennialism is correct, but people go wrong when they take that to mean “every religion is just a different path to the same god!” which is patent nonsense. Objective morality exists, but the base manifestation of that set of behaviors can be (and is) instantly corrupted when viewed through a sophistic or solipsistic lense, as some cultures do.