Rene Guenon was born in Blois, a city in central France approximately 100 miles (~ 160 km) from Paris. Guenon, like most Frenchmen of the time, was born into a Roman Catholic family. Little is known of his family, although it appears that his father was an architect. By 1904, Guenon was living as a student in Paris, where his studies focused on mathematics and philosophy. He was known as a brilliant student, notably in mathematics, in spite of his poor health. As a young student in Paris, Guenon observed and became involved with some milieux which were, at that time, under the supervision of Papus.[7] Under the name and “Tau Palingenius and ” Guenon became the founder and main contributor of a periodical review, La Gnose ( and “Gnosis and “), writing articles for it until 1922. From his incursions into the French occultist and pseudo-masonic orders, he despaired of the possibility of ever gathering these diverse and often ill-assorted doctrines into a and “stable edifice and “.[8] In his book The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times he also pointed out what he saw as the intellectual vacuity of the French occultist movement, which, he wrote, was utterly insignificant, and more importantly, had been compromised by the infiltration of certain individuals of questionable motives and integrity

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