Jack, the American, is a maker of custom high-performance weapons used in assassinations. When an assignment goes awry in Sweden, he runs off to Italy and secludes himself in the town. His chief gives him one last job, after which Jack plans to retire. Continue reading
For centuries we worked in the manner of men; even while in decline we struggled to preserve our nobility. Exhausted, we began to lose our heads; our waking hours were haunted by dreams; only the illusion of progress kept us alive. Continue reading
Virgin Spring is a 1960 film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Loosely based on a medieval Swedish legend, Bergman develops it into an examination of the relationship between the new Christian religion and the old Norse religion which it was supplanting. We are not interested in the many moralistic interpretations of … Continue reading
Oh well, it’s all one religion ~ Ezra Pound Continue reading
From Hyperborea to the modern world. Continue reading
Two birds, inseparably united companions, dwell in the same tree; the one eats of the fruit of the tree, while the other looks on without eating.~ Mundaka Upanishad iii.1 This quote from the Upanishads, which appear at the end of the Vedic period, demonstrates the vague beginnings of the dualistic … Continue reading
Let us be clear. The Primordial State is not a “state of nature” as in Rousseau, but rather of supernature. But if in the Primordial State man lives in harmony with nature and the divine, with a direct awareness of God in his psyche as his life force, and with … Continue reading
There is an intuitive awareness of God and the universal order by clairvoyant vision, just as we now recognize a tree or a mountain by direct experience. Thinking is regarded as another sense, along with sight, hearing, touch or taste. Discursive thought — of the “yes” and the “no”, of the “good” and the “evil” — is not present. Instead, thoughts are experienced as voices from the celestial hierarchies (gods or angels) or communications from ancestors or as commands from rulers. Continue reading
Love conquers all and let us yield to love. Continue reading
By concentrating and stilling the mind, an opening is prepared for the appearance of Being, or divine inspiration. This may also appear as a creative force to an artist. Continue reading