Where Have All the Heroes Gone

Posted on 2013-03-11 by Cologero

The assumption is that order will remain even if the sources of order are destroyed. The assumption is that when everyone is tolerant of each other, then unity will arise. The assumption is that, when people are provided with the material goods they lack, then they will be happy. The assumption is that when people are encouraged to satisfy their lowest desires, then they will be satisfied. The assumption is that mind-altering drugs are good, since there is nothing worth thinking about anyway. The assumption is that when the past is forgotten, then the future will be boundless. Continue reading →

The Constitution of a Traditional Society: Warriors (III)

Posted on 2013-03-10 by Cologero

⇐ Part II This is the final segment on the role of the Warrior caste in a Traditional Society. Here we see that the point of war is to establish peace. The respective spheres of influence of the priests and warriors are made clear, although caste conflicts can still break … Continue reading →

The Constitution of a Traditional Society: Warriors (II)

Posted on 2013-03-06 by Cologero

⇐ Part I Part III ⇒ It seems to me that Guido De Giorgio and Julius Evola agree on the role of the Warrior caste, with some fundamental disagreements. The first obviously is that Evola fails to understand the relationship of the warrior caste to the priestly class. The second … Continue reading →

Return to Normalcy

Posted on 2013-03-06 by Cologero

salvation requires a real change, an “intellectual” conversion, and not a nominal, or “imputed” one. There is no mechanical process involved and each man must follow the narrow way the best he can. Continue reading →

The Constitution of a Traditional Society: Warriors (I)

Posted on 2013-03-04 by Cologero

Part II ⇒ This is part I on the role of the Warrior caste in a Traditional Society. Here Guido De Giorgio describes the role of the warrior caste and its relationship to the priestly caste. He then relates that to the Great War and and the Lesser War. In … Continue reading →

March Madness

Posted on 2013-03-02 by Cologero

This is an announcement from Obama that you may hear before the year is out: Obama: I have determined that all the problems in the world stem from certain events involving Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Therefore, I am proposing legislation to ensure that something like that … Continue reading →

Heaven By Storm on the Number Seven

Posted on 2013-03-01 by Logres

I have paused, once more, at the Number Seven, for there are seven deadly sins which every mortal must purge themselves from, before the ascent, and there are seven corresponding virtues, four classical ones, and three theological ones, which (no doubt), ingenious readers can correspond in various ways to each … Continue reading →

The Political Philosophy of Confucianism (III-IV)

Posted on 2013-02-28 by Avery Morrow

In Part III, OKAWA Shumei takes out the big guns, attacking the founder of Legalism as impeding the cultivation of virtue, and by implication Western political theories which aim for the same legalistic goal. What the reader might not realize is that in denouncing Han Fei, who lived in the … Continue reading →

Death and Deliverance

Posted on 2013-02-26 by Aeneas

Dying before dying prepares us for death, feeling oneself a cadaver before becoming one, separating before detachment, sanctifying the corpse, purifying it, making it the marble temple of the Living God. The sanctification of the body is the sanctification of life and the sanctification of the soul that only the Holy calls Holy, i.e., God in us. The divine integration, the knowledge that God alone thinks, feels, and works in us, is the most certain means to attain freedom and serenity at the transition. Continue reading →

Unserious Meditations

Posted on 2013-02-25 by Cologero

I used to think that books like Brave New World and 1984 were intended to warn us about what may happen. Now I realize their purpose was to prepare us to welcome the brave new world with open arms and closed minds. Continue reading →

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Liber esse, scientiam acquirere, veritatem loqui

Where Have All the Heroes Gone

The Constitution of a Traditional Society: Warriors (III)

The Constitution of a Traditional Society: Warriors (II)

Return to Normalcy

The Constitution of a Traditional Society: Warriors (I)

March Madness

Heaven By Storm on the Number Seven

The Political Philosophy of Confucianism (III-IV)

Death and Deliverance

Unserious Meditations