Brother Francis wrote:
Although this writer must recognize the importance of polytheists like Rene Guenon and Julius Evola, they are not in any way my models or teachers.
It is wonderful for you to continue the Romantic Tradition, properly understood, and perhaps someday you may tell us about Schlegel. Nevertheless, one cannot be an anti-realist and be Catholic, since it is the Church that assures us about what is real. This is all the more so because of those Germanic philosophers, like Kant, for example, who denies that we can know the real. Without that assurance, we would not know about the Real Presence (e.g., like your Protestant "brothers") nor about all those invisible things mentioned in the creed.
It is also necessary to be factual. I am not promoting Guenon and Evola, but to be fair, I have to point out that they were not polytheists. Guenon was a Catholic before converting to Islam. Evola was raised a Catholic and then rejected it even while wishing Her to reclaim the glory of the Middle Ages.
As for the facts regarding Wagner: on what grounds can anyone assume he was a Catholic? Did not his Catholic wife, the daughter of a man of the Third Order, convert to Lutheranism?
And, yes, if you have an agenda, it would be fair for you to be more frank about your beliefs, as you promised.
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