Chapter six returns to Guénon's biography, covering the period from the Second World War until Guénon's death in 1951.

• It introduces Martin Lings (1909- ) and Henri Hartung (1921-88), and includes the split between Schuon and Guénon during 1948-50. The chapter explores the causes and consequences of this split.
• It examines the modifications made to the Alawiyya by Schuon which led to the rejection of Schuon by Guénon and others, and the independent Traditionalists groups established as a result of the split. 
• These included various Masonic lodges in France , one Sufi order in Turin , another under Michel Vâlsan in Paris , and (much later, in the 1980s) a third in Milan under Abd al-Wahid Pallavicini (1926- ). 
• The chapter completes the history of Traditionalist Masonry and Traditionalist Sufism with an examination of the later histories of these lodges and orders; the later history of Schuon's order, however, is covered in later chapters.

Further reading

• Joseph Epes Brown, The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux . Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1953.
• John Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks . New York , W. Morrow, 1932.
• La Règle d'Abraham (in French, on Italian website)

Suggested websites

• Sufi-Traditionalist
• Rivista di Studi Tradizionali ( Turin ; in Italian)
• Comunità Religiosa Islamica Italiana (Pallavicini; in Italian)
• Masonic-Traditionalist
• La Fraternité d'Abraham (in French, with limited sections in English and other languages)
• Loge Villard de Honnecourt (website of the Grande Loge Nationale Française, in French; click on "Villard de Honnecourt")
• Loge maçonnique René Guénon (in French)

Other resources

• Additional notes to chapter 6
• Addenda
• Errata

New

• Article by Jean-Baptiste Aymard, "La naissance de la Loge « La Grande Triade » dans la correspondance de René Guénon à Frithjof Schuon."