Renรฉ Guรฉnon: "The fissures of the great wall"

According to traditional symbolism, these "cracks" are produced in the "Great Wall" that surrounds our world and protects it against the intrusion of evil influences of the lower subtle realm: in the Islamic tradition through these "cracks" they will penetrate, as they approach of the end of the cycle, the devastating hordes of Gog and Magog, which Hindu tradition mentions as the demons Koka and Vikoka.

The myth of concealment in Eurasian traditions

Brief excursus along the historical, philosophical and religious path through which the theme of the concealment of the divine in the great Eurasian space developed: a theme that once again demonstrates the primordial spiritual unity of this vast inner continent