… a vain and illusory knowledge, which indeed comes from nothing and leads to nothing.

René Guénon, The Essential René Guénon: Metaphysics, Tradition and the Crisis of Modernity [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Rene Guenon The Essential Rene Guenon a vague and illusory knowledge

Consider also:

  1. “These are still Ways back to God—the three mārgas—the way of knowledge, the way of love, and the way of action”
  2. “The question is not whether consciousness or whether knowledge, but the quality of the consciousness and of the knowledge. And that invites consideration of the quality of fineness of the human subject—the most problematic standard of all.”
  3. “Books on true occultism are on the whole very useless things; because those who are in possession of occult knowledge will not require them; while those who have no such knowledge will not understand them; neither will they receive much benefit from such literature; because real spiritual knowledge must be found within one’s own soul; it cannot be learned from books. The scientist, rationalist, and speculative philosopher deals only with, so to say, the candlesticks bearing the candles from which is emanating the light which they cannot see, neither can they see the candle; for the latter is representing the soul, whose light is the spirit.”
  4. “the solstices of summer and winter are the gates of the gods”
  5. “Imagine a sacred wand that has the power to transform existential truths into celestial realities; picture a universal symbol that when gazed upon could raise human consciousness to a higher order of perception”