It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man’s head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain, and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty. ~ Charles Sanders Pearce Continue reading
The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint. ~ Charles Péguy Love, Work, and Suffer ~ Motto of the Kerouac family (Rivista Araldica) Am actually not “beat” but strange solitary crazy Catholic mystic ~ … Continue reading
In which we briefly outline the idea of cosmic cycles, and illustrate them initially in the revelation of the originary Hyperborean source of the Vedas. This is then extended to Traditions following the Vedas. Finally, there is some speculation on the future course of the West. Continue reading
Scholasticism deals with the most important concepts such as God, the soul, freedom, immortality, salvation, good and evil. The foundation for thinking begins with the seven liberal arts: grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy. Continue reading
these doctrines are reserved for a relatively restricted and closed elite. This was also the case in the West in the Middle Ages. Continue reading
I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any. And I praised the dead rather than the living: And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun. Continue reading
A philosophy is not a court of law. It is not a matter of being right or wrong. It is a sign of great vulgarity to want to be right and yet more to want to be right against someone else. Continue reading
In traditional cosmology, the position of Earth is the furthest from Heaven and the closest to Hell. If that is what geocentrism means, then it must be true. Continue reading
It’s curious that even atheists and neo-Darwinists are sometimes willing to believe that the human race was seeded by aliens or even that we “inhabit” a computer simulation created by more advanced beings; in other words, the implication is that the world was designed, albeit not by God. Continue reading