Thanks to LP for drawing my attention to William W. Quinn, Jr., "Mircea Eliade and the Sacred Tradition (A Personal Account)," Nova Religio 3, no. 1 (1999), pp. 147-153.
As mentioned in Against the Modern World, Quinn (who was Eliade's PhD student) remembers Eliade as a Traditionalist. This article gives more details of the relationship, generally confirming what is already written.
One interesting detail: Quinn reports that Eliade "instructed [him] to minimize [his] use of the principal figures and literature of modern theosophy during my tenure as a student." Rather as Eliade himself minimized his public use of Traditionalist litterature? For Quinn, this cautious approach was "more like a sublimation than a repudiation ... and [his] ultimate success at the university ... was the proof of its wisdom."
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Eliade was a coward and a traitor. Why did he not confess the Tradition openly? There were 2 Eliades: the real Eliade, a fighter in Codreanu's Iron Guard, and the public Eliade: a soft-spoken, americanize, liberal blabbermouth. I know this from the edition of Evola's letters exchange with his old friend Eliade. Evola always told the truth. He was infinitely more courageous than Eliade.
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