Prisoner of the System

Posted on 2010-08-30 by Cologero

A person an individual who is differentiated through his qualities, endowed with his own face, his proper nature, and a series of attributes that make him who he is … that make him fundamentally unequal. Continue reading →

Finding Agarttha

Posted on 2010-08-25 by Cologero

In King of the World, Guenon documents Christianity’s loss of its primordial Tradition as the gradual break of the link to its spiritual centre. This break occurred in stages following the period called the Middle Ages. The first break came with the destruction of the Templars, since the Orders of … Continue reading →

The Gornahoor Project

Posted on 2010-08-25 by Cologero

Based on some exchanges lately, we feel the need to make clear the purpose of the Gornahoor Project. There is one distinction, and one distinction only: that between Tradition and anti-Tradition. Elaborating that distinction in its past and current manifestations is a legitimate topic for discussion. However, proselytizing for one … Continue reading →

Continuity of Tradition

Posted on 2010-08-23 by Cologero

Tradition is not subject to any standard, on the contrary, it is the standard by which to judge a culture. Historical change, in the Traditional sense, is organic, since it develops according to the needs and nature of specific peoples. For example, the rupture between ancient Rome and Holy Rome … Continue reading →

Ernst Junger on Apoliteia

Posted on 2010-08-23 by Will

The following passages are from Ernst Junger’s philosophical-metahistorical novel Eumeswil, a book which complements Julius Evola’s Ride the Tiger quite nicely. “I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing … Continue reading →

Berdyaev and the Mirage of Progress

Posted on 2010-08-22 by Cologero

The myth of Atlantis may serve as a warning to us. Rather than being the pinnacle of human evolution, modern man is more likely the degenerate, fallen, and weaker product of something much greater. Continue reading →

True Diversity

Posted on 2010-08-18 by Cologero

In East and West, Rene Guenon makes this fundamental claim: So long as western people imagine that there only exists a single type of humanity, that there is only one ‘civilization’, at different stages of development, no mutual understanding will be possible. The truth is that there are many civilizations, … Continue reading →

Tradition and the New Age

Posted on 2010-08-16 by Cologero

There are two competing spiritual attitudes, and often they are confused because they seem to deal with the same subject matters: metaphysics, spirituality, and so on. Yet there is a fundamental dichotomy, so divisive, in fact, that mutual conversation is barely possible. The New Ager is comprehensible from the Traditional … Continue reading →

Hermetic Meditation

Posted on 2010-08-13 by Cologero

Since Gornahoor has been so insistent on the necessity for spiritual practice, we will here provide an example of Hermetic meditation. This is based on suggestions from the writings of Valentin Tomberg, the foremost Hermetist of the 20th century. As he points out: There are no theories; there is only … Continue reading →

Hermetism and the Primordial State

Posted on 2010-08-11 by Cologero

Hermetic initiation is the conscious descent into the depths of the human being all the way to the initial state. When we follow the Hermetic method and meditate on symbols and images, we transcend the external facts of the symbols to descend to the “vital, mental, and spiritual realities that … Continue reading →