Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” … Continue reading
The Thinking of Sound and Well-Born Persons
In his self-defense, Evola denied he was a Fascist and insisted that he thought the same as well-bred men with sound minds thought prior to the French Revolution. This recording by Solange Hertz remarkably illustrates how such men thought and viewed the world. She identifies the “Three Plagues” of the … Continue reading
The French Hermetic Tradition
Valentin Tomberg explains why he wrote his meditations on the major arcana of the Tarot in French: These letters were written in French, which is not the mother tongue of the author, because it is in France, and in France only, that a living literature on the Tarot has been … Continue reading
Two Incompatible and Irreconcilable Worldviews
There are two incompatible and irreconcilable worldviews. Anti-tradition One, is the idea that humans evolved from animals and then, even within human society, there is a continual process of evolution and progress to higher stages of intellectuality and morality. Tradition The second is that humans began in a perfected state, … Continue reading
The Lamp of Trismegistus
The Hermit is not really a misanthrope. He loves humanity, but objectively and intellectually, not sentimentally. But humanity prefers sentiment, or the illusion of love, to real love. Continue reading
The Wise Man rules the Elements
In Transcendental Magic, Eliphas Levi quotes from a “Hebrew manuscript of the 16th century” regarding the powers and privileges of the Mage. They are grouped in three septenaries, with a conclusion, corresponding to the 22 Hebrew letters of the alphabet. First Septenary He beholds God face to face, without dying, … Continue reading
The Highest of Pieties
This passage is from the section Arcana of Adar or Persistence from Joséphin Péladan’s book Comment on devient Mage. Péladan was a devout Catholic as well as a Hermetist. Yet he recognizes that the Catholic faith makes sense only if it is the Primordial Tradition. All truth must be incorporated … Continue reading
Social Facts and Group Control
Far from exhausting itself in a naturalism — as today only the ignorance or the tendentious falsification of some people are able to present it — beyond knowing the ideals of virile overcoming and of absolute liberation, in the pagan conception, the world was a living body, suffused with secret, divine and demonic forces, with meanings and with symbols. Continue reading
Before you think and choose
Before you think and choose, society takes over your being and moulds it, as is its right. Once you think and choose, remove those received imprints, that is to say, liberate yourself from contemporary habits, as is your right. Continue reading