The Kalki Avatar

Which One?

Frithjof Schuon, one of the three founders of the far-right-wing Traditionalist School of Esotericism (𖣁ᔕ𖢩™)—or as I call it the metaTradder Schooler movement—was recognized by his disciples as the Kalki Avatar (Sanskrit, कल्किअवतार, Kalki•Avatāra).

I have contextually translated the Kalki Avatar, also referred to as the Tenth Avatar, as: the divine Equestrian on a white horse Who, after riding down from the heavenly Highlands into human form, ends the dark age (Sanskrit, कलियुग, kali•yuga, “the yoke or cycle of discord”).

For what it is worth, in a Bahá’í context, the Kalki Avatar is Bahá’u’lláh:

He [Bahá’u’lláh] alone is meant by the prophecy attributed to Gautama Buddha Himself, that “a Buddha named Maitreye, the Buddha of universal fellowship” should, in the fullness of time, arise and reveal “His boundless glory.” To Him the Bhagavad-Gita of the Hindus had referred as the “Most Great Spirit,” the “Tenth Avatar,” the “Immaculate Manifestation of Krishna.”

Shoghi Effendi. God Passes By. Pages 94-95.

We are all, in the long run, just human. Michael Oren Fitzgerald, with no disrespect intended, is both a metaTradder Schooler and a Bahá’í. But he refers to Schuon as a messenger of perennial philosophy, a term used by metaTradder Schoolers for the Traditionalist School of Esotericism.

Just a question:

It is really none of my business, but I am curious. How can a Bahá’í believe that Frithjof Schuon was a “messenger of the perennial philosophy,” a term appropriated by metaTradder Schoolers for the metaTradder School? The Prophets of God are the Messengers of the divine philosophy (Arabic, حِكْمَةُ الإِلٰهِيَّة, Ḥik°maẗu ʾal•⫰Ɪlꞌahiyyaẗ; or Hebrew, חָכְמָה הַאֱלֹהִית, Ḥoḵəmāh hạ•ʾĔlôhiyṯ), not Mr. Schuon—a man with multiply legally alleged, but admittedly legally unproven, acts of sexual perversion.