Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition (4)

Posted on 2012-03-27 by Cologero

The purely exterior literary merits that common men [volgo], the profanum vulgus [unholy rabble], admire in Dante have no importance and would nullify the value of the Comedy in the very eyes of Dante and of those who can and know how to understand the purpose for which the poem … Continue reading →

Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition (3)

Posted on 2012-03-26 by Cologero

It is not easy to express this succession and fusion that must not be considered historically but on a plane where the symbolic values remain such even if unknown or misunderstood until a new light suddenly illuminates them and reveals them. For the two traditions which we discussing, Rome is … Continue reading →

Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition (2)

Posted on 2012-03-25 by Cologero

If Virgil represents the ancient tradition and Beatrice the new tradition and if, at the threshold of the Terrestrial Paradise, Virgil disappears before Beatrice, Beatrice also disappears when the divine mystery is grasped by Dante in its immediate realization and what then remains, above and beyond the two traditions unified … Continue reading →

Making the Modern Mind

Posted on 2012-03-24 by Logres

Sometimes it helps to meditate on what is good by looking at the opposite, at least for those of us who only have “intimations of deprivation” and have not yet found our true center. This kind of “cautionary tale” meditation or meditating “by negative example” is very easy in Western … Continue reading →

Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition

Posted on 2012-03-21 by Cologero

From La Tradizione Romana by Guido De Giorgio. The traditional gold vein of Rome in the living unity of the two forms supplementing each other in a perfect match and equilibrium, is found again in all its wholeness in Dante who was the first to reveal the mystery of Romanity. … Continue reading →

Holy Rome, Eternal Rome

Posted on 2012-03-20 by Cologero

Before translating Evola’s review of a book by Maurras, we plan to provide a chapter from Guido de Giorgio’s La Tradizione Romana (The Roman Tradition) called “Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition.” De Giorgio is most certainly the only man to have collaborated with both Rene Guenon … Continue reading →

The End of All our Exploring

Posted on 2012-03-19 by Cologero

And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time. Continue reading →

Kalashnikov Dreams

Posted on 2012-03-18 by Cologero

They say you can’t dream of your own death. Last night I had a dream, though I now only remember the ending. My comrades and I were in an apartment; they were in the anteroom and I was sitting alone by the dining room table. A half-wall separated the two … Continue reading →

The Hidden History of Rome (6)

Posted on 2012-03-17 by Aeneas

Some may say that we are exaggerating: but it is difficult for Cesaro’s friend [Evola himself] to demonstrate here that Cesaro’s premises, i.e., those of Steiner, rigorously thought out, are sufficient to lead to so much. We don’t want to be considered tendentious and therefore we will emphasize that in … Continue reading →

Middle Earth Once More

Posted on 2012-03-16 by Logres

“By way of such aspects, we see—it is clear—in the Middle Ages an awakening of the true forces already acting in Nordic-Aryan Romanity, of its true solarity, propitiated from such a resurgence or rebirth from a new contribution of Aryan blood…” Gornahoor translating Evola, on Cesaro Indeed, a tremendously sophisticated … Continue reading →