Prolegomena to any Future Tradition

Posted on 2011-09-26 by Cologero

As a thought experiment, we shall attempt, in several posts, to specify the characteristics of what Tradition in the West will have to look like, based on the 400+ preceding posts. In particular, we will look at the following elements: Foundation External structure Internal Structure Practical Dualism These characteristics will … Continue reading →

Fight over Origins

Posted on 2011-09-24 by Cologero

Julius Evola opens the chapter The Arctic Myth from Il mito del sangue by describing the state of prehistoric research: Oswald Menghin, rector of the University of Vienna, wrote these characteristic words, “More than any other discipline, the science of prehistory is being brought back, and still more must be … Continue reading →

The Makropoulous Affair

Posted on 2011-09-23 by Logres

Janacek’s famous opera, The_Makropulos_Affair centers around the discovery of a secret elixir which can actually grant the brewer immortality. Continue reading →

Burn Notice

Posted on 2011-09-21 by Cologero

About a spy who receives a “burn notice”, that is, he is excommunicated, in the original sense of the world, from his spiritual community without explanation. He is thrown into the world and left without any identity, assets, or resources, basically turned into an outlaw. Continue reading →

Order and the Soul

Posted on 2011-09-21 by Will

Picking up on the theme of Order and Chaos from the previous post, I thought it might be of interest to explicate Plato’s concept of an ordered soul in The Republic. For Plato, the soul (psyche) is composed of three main faculties – the epithumetikon, the thumoeides, and the logistikon. … Continue reading →

Tilting at Windmills

Posted on 2011-09-19 by Cologero

The real difficulty [in understanding metaphysics] is the mental assimilation needed to arrive at this result; there are certainly many minds that are quite incapable of it, and it is easy to gauge how far this effort transcends the scope of mere works of erudition. There is only one really profitable of studying doctrines: in order to be understood they must be studied so to speak “from the inside” Continue reading →

NeoPlatonism & Orthodoxy

Posted on 2011-09-17 by Logres

An Eastern Orthodox response to Protestant critique reveals some very interesting facts about the tradition. First of all, it considered itself to build upon classical tradition: Towards late antiquity, two words were in philosophical use which meant substance or substantive being. As Aristotle put it, being can be said in … Continue reading →

Subterranean History

Posted on 2011-09-13 by Cologero

On various occasions we have insisted on the necessity of a radical revision of methods and criteria with which, in the order of common teaching and of that culture that claims to be serious, history is made. We demonstrated that history of true history does not grasp that the two … Continue reading →

Dialectics Redux

Posted on 2011-09-11 by Cologero

The Hermetic method is the way of depth, not confrontation. If we have two opposing view, each of which seems reasonable or even unrefutable, then we try to go deeper to determine what they have in common. A frequent example involves the debate between believers in religion and believers in science. Continue reading →

The Primal State

Posted on 2011-09-10 by Cologero

This impinges on the very notion of justice, whether the Fates are just or unjust. The modern view of justice is that everyone should be treated equally; the traditional view is that everyone gets what he deserves. Hence, in the ancient worlds, our place in life is not unjust. The group is arranged hierarchically, held together by organic bonds of love, loyalty, and fidelity. Continue reading →

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Prolegomena to any Future Tradition

Fight over Origins

The Makropoulous Affair

Burn Notice

Order and the Soul

Tilting at Windmills

NeoPlatonism & Orthodoxy

Subterranean History

Dialectics Redux

The Primal State