A couple of weeks ago, we asked about the available options for initiation for Western men today. Although the first two options got the most votes, the third one seems to have generated the most interest. Read Dante’s Divine Comedy in Italian Men attracted to Tradition today are, or should … Continue reading
to realize the wild pleasure of existing tragically — such is the test of Dionysus Continue reading
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She revealed to him remarkable facts about the universe in general and her own planet in particular. Furthermore, in the middle of every night, she reported on her experiences of Earth life back to her own planet, on their equivalent of television via mental telepathy. Continue reading
Although we have addressed the issue about the relationship between the spiritual authority and temporal power over and over, we may as well address it again with the hope and expectation that future commentators will offer more than links to other web sites. Evola’s words will be marked by a … Continue reading
The Buddha replied: “Not at all! Since the knots were tied one after another in a certain order, we cannot untie them, unless we follow the reverse order.” Continue reading
If we take the view that consciousness is not a product of the world, but that the world is a product of consciousness, it becomes obvious that we live in exactly the type of world which we have created and therefore deserved, and that the remedy cannot be an escape from the world, but only a change of mind. Such a change, however, can only take place, if we know the innermost nature of this mind and its power. Continue reading
An ecstasy of joy, whose immense tension sometimes dissolves into a stream of tears, and whose pace is sometimes like a storm and sometimes becomes slow; a state of being completely beside oneself, yet with the clearest consciousness of an infinite number of fine tremors and wave-like vibrations running down to the very toes; a depth of happiness, in which all that is painful and dark, does not act as a contradiction but as a necessary condition, a challenge, as a necessary colour within such an abundance of light; an instinct for rhythmic proportions, which spans extensive realms of form — the extension, the need for an all-encompassing rhythm ins almost a criterion for the power of inspiration, a kind of compensating counter-force against its pressure and tension. Continue reading
Natural phenomena in general, and especially astronomical phenomena, are never looked upon by the traditional doctrines other than as a simple means of expression, whereby they symbolize truths of a higher order. ~ Rene Guenon, Man and his Becoming according to the Vedanta Inner States It is reasonably straight-forward to … Continue reading
A real man must know himself as Subject, Person, or Self, not as an object whether in his consciousness or in the world. Since to know is to be, the Real Man will also be a Person, not just another individual in the world. There is no formula or program for this task, that is why the hero has a thousand faces. Continue reading