Portrait from 1925
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View full-sizeDownload René Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon (15 November 1886 – 7 January 1951), also known as Abdalwahid Yahia (Arabic: عبد الـوٰاحد يحيیٰ; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Yaḥiā), was a French intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics, having written on topics ranging from esotericism, "sacred science" and "traditional studies" to symbolism and initiation. In his writings, he proposes to hand down eastern metaphysics and traditions, these doctrines being defined by him as of "universal character", and adapt them to western readers "while keeping strictly faithful to their spirit". Initiated into Islamic esotericism from as early as 1910 when he was 24, he mainly wrote and published in French, and his works have been translated into more than twenty languages; he also wrote in Arabic an article for the journal Al Marifah.
The concept of the Seven Towers of Satan is related to seven locations on Earth believed to be connected to the negative spiritual realm.
Niger - The Ancient Egyptians, Masters of the Arcane & Esoteric Sciences whispered tales of this land, claiming it to be the birthplace of the most fearsome sorcerers.
Sudan - deep within rugged mountains, a community of 20,000 lycanthropes or werewolves exist from both folklore & witness accounts.
Syria - A land rich in history & culture
Iraq - Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization itself.
Turkestan - A place where the modern & ancient, coexist. Former Asian republics of the USSR.
Here is an excerpt from Anton LaVey's, The Satanic Rituals:
From their mecca-the tomb of their first leader, Sheik Adi-situated on Mount Lalish near the ancient city of Nineveh, the Yezidi empire stretched in an invisible band approximately three hundred miles wide to the Mediterranean junction of Turkey and Syria on one end, and the mountains of the Caucasus in Russia on the other.
At intervals along this strip were seven towers-the Towers of Satan (Ziarahs)-six of them trapezoidal in form, and one, the "center" on Mount Lalish, shaped like a sharp, fluted point.
Each tower was topped by a brilliant heliographic reflector and was intended to serve as a "power house" from whence a Satanic magician could beam his will to the "descendants of Adam," and influence human events in the outside world.
It has a main Archangel, which Muslims pointed at to call Satan because God ordered his Archangels to bow to Adam and this one defied God by stating that he would only bow to God.
