the causes of things, the ways of nature, the reason of the universe, the counsel of God, the mysteries of heaven and earth Continue reading
Intellectuality and Organic Logic
Tempted by Calypso
If you come upon a pure contemplator, ignorant of the body, banished to the innermost places of the mind, he is not an earthly, nor a heavenly animal: he more superbly is a divinity clothed with human flesh. Continue reading
Odin Sightings in Europe
As I suspected, Loki informed me that he was a member of a religious cult that has been practicing the old ways without interruption from the dawns of time. But I did not expect what came next. With unconcealed excitement, he told me that recently there have been a significant number of Odin sightings in Sweden! Of course, I enquired about the reason for that. Continue reading
Intellectuality and Spirituality Redux
A mystery cannot be resolved intellectually. Unless an arcane teaching leads to, or elicits, or acts as the midwife to, a spiritual transformation, it has not been understood. Continue reading
Neo-Vedanta, Evil Spirits, and Don Quixote
Everyone else is like Don Quixote fighting imaginary battles in a world they no longer understand. Continue reading
Haunted by the Emperor
Europe is haunted by the shadow of the Emperor. One senses his absence just as vividly as in former times one sensed his presence. Because the emptiness of the wound speaks, that which we miss knows how to make us sense it. ~ Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot At … Continue reading
Sense and Nonsense
The modern mind forgets about being, mistaking the changing world of appearances for Being itself. Opposed to that, Thomism tries to “lead to” the awakening of Being by beginning with sense experience. Continue reading
Thriving in the End Times
The ancient Romans and Greeks, for example, kept a hearth fire burning for their ancestors and they expected future generations to do the same for them. They are a dim image, as though through a glass darkly, of postmortem states. Continue reading
Christian Gnosis: Jacob Boehme
Origen, Dionysius the Areopagite, Jacob Boehme, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Vladimir Solovyov and Nicolas Berdyaev, for example, show in their works a progress which is very advanced in substantially bringing together intelligence and the intuition of faith. ~ Valentin Tomberg Continue reading
The Life of Reason
Rhetoric is the arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions [which] has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case. Continue reading