RENE GUENON 19

Rene Guenon, Studies in Freemasonry and the Compagnonnage (Collected Works of Rene Guenon), translated from the French by Henry D. Fohr, Cecil Bethell & Michael Allen (Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis, 1964, 2004) ("Indeed, in a general sense what is dogmatism if not the purely sentimental and very human tendency to present one's own individual ideas (whether these pertain to a man or to a collectivity), with all the relative and uncertain elements they inevitably entail, as if they were incontestable truths? It is but a short step from this to the desire to impose these so-called truths on others, and history shows well enough how many times this step has been taken; nevertheless, on account of their relative and hypothetical--an therefore in a large measure illusory--character, such ideas constitute 'beliefs' or 'opinions', and nothing more." Id. at 2.).