The prerogative of the human state is objectivity; the essential content of which is the Absolute. There is no knowledge without objectivity of the intelligence; there is no freedom without objectivity of the will; and there is no nobility without objectivity of the soul Continue reading
The celibate path embraced by the monk frees him the strongest attachment to the world. As Nicolas Berdyaev puts it:
Man is greatly dependent, sexually, on woman: he has a weakness for the other sex, a radical weakness which may be the source of all his weaknesses. Continue reading
The higher order system defines its components, rather than the other way around. Continue reading
So the first task is to begin observing and transcending the misconceptions of the first stage. A temporary “I” develops that integrates the three lower centers. This is still a transitional, or psychological, state, often represented as the lower Ego. Continue reading
Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. From Anna Karenina The international distress signal is dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot, or SOS for short. It is easy to remember as “Save our ship” or “Save our souls”. In the latter case, there should be … Continue reading
To be a son means to partake in the nature of the father. So to be a son of God is to be like Him: active, powerful, free, and creative. Continue reading
In The Wire there is no justice, only might and cunning. Continue reading
Anyone who wants to benefit from the Law of Exception must first achieve a victory over himself, over his own interior world, before he will be able to overcome the ‘World’ and — by doing so — escape from the General Law. ~ Boris Mouravieff Conception is defined as the … Continue reading
The noble man is one who dominates himself. The noble man is one who masters himself and loves to master himself; the base man is one who does not master himself and shrinks in horror from mastering himself. Continue reading
The problem of the forgetting of Being cannot be resolved philosophically or scientifically, but only spiritually and metaphysically. We started Gornahoor first of all as an exploration in the recovery of Tradition in the West. Since Tradition is the opposite of modernity, this led to an attempt to forge a … Continue reading