Mejnour was able to know and Zanoni able to love. Few men can do both. Most men can do neither. Continue reading
What follow are our meeting notes for 28 September 2020, including the Euro and Western Hemisphere online Zoom meetings. After an extended meditation, we continued our preparation for the study of Ur-Platonism. We began with a discussion of our experiences with the task to discover one’s true self. It was … Continue reading
References, through images, to the law of converting everything that is joined at the extreme into the opposite. Decadence begins at the peak. For essential mastery and for control of the transformations, it is necessary to know how to abandon at the right point what is brought to completion. Continue reading
← Chapter 7 Chapter 9 → Chapter 8 The transcendent quality resembles water Without resisting it assumes the form of each thing It takes the lowest position that men scorn (because they are seeking the heights) The farther one is from acting in common, the more one is close to the … Continue reading
I was surprised to read the email. Although he was my college roommate, I hadn’t heard from Chad in some 20 years. From mutual friends, now and then, I learned he had become an actuary, gotten married, yada yada. You know how it goes, once the routine starts, it develops … Continue reading
The Person exists in multiple states of being, of which the human state is but one of them. Rene Guenon explains it like this: almost everything that is said theologically of the angels can also be said metaphysically of the higher states of the being. Continue reading
Quaternity That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. ~ … Continue reading
The idea that nature is a closed system of natural causes and that natural causes provide a complete account of everything that occurs in nature is deeply entrenched in the West. ~ William Dembski The common sentimental idea is that the Garden of Eden was set up perfectly for Adam. … Continue reading
The characters used in the first line, “Heaven and Earth”, express the idea of totality, and it is not the “nameable”, qualified Principle, that is referred to here but to action that makes it eternal: it “is” in the transcendent sense since it is denied. Continue reading
The present age must come to terms drastically with the facts as they are, with the absolute opposition that is not only tearing the world asunder politically but has planted a schism in the human heart. We need to find our way back to the original, living spirit which, because of its ambivalence, is also a mediator and uniter of opposites, an idea that preoccupied the alchemists for many centuries. ~ C G Jung, Aion Continue reading