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Decentering the Western Tradition
Evola Viewed from the Right (V)
⇐ Part IV Part VI ⇒ Julius Evola asserts that “a true Right without the monarchy ends up deprived of its natural centre of gravity and crystalisation”, since the Crown in traditional societies is the principle reference point. Hence, in any situation in which a Right takes form, its function needs … Continue reading
Love in the Time of Autumn
Who would willingly be an aphid in a colony of ants? Continue reading
Knowing the Nature of Things
Adam’s genius shows itself in the fact that he gave names to the animals. Saint Augustine rated it as an act of the highest wisdom and Pythagoras recognized that the wisest man was the one who first gave names to things. In the mentality of traditional man, the name indicates the nature of a thing, and the man who knows the name of a thing fundamentally knows its nature or essence. Continue reading
The Causal State of Deep Sleep
There is a necessity of suffering the trouble of a Troop of Thoughts, importune Imaginations, and the impetuosities of natural Notions, not only, of the Soul through the dryness and disunion it hath, but of the Body also, occasioned by the want of submission to the Spirit, which it ought to have. Continue reading
The Paradisal State
In this fully integral state, Adam shared a human nature, a divine nature, and an angelic nature. To grasp this state of being, we need to focus on the part of the soul that transcends the body. Continue reading
The Metaphysics of Reintegration
The fundamental aim of the French Hermetic Tradition, insofar as it is infused with Martinism, is Reintegration, that is, the restoration of the wholeness of man that was broken as a result of the Fall. In other words, it seeks the return to the Primordial State of Adam. Since the … Continue reading
The Rights of Man: Life
Ever since the French Revolution, there has been much discussed about the so-called rights of man. Over time, this discussion has confounded natural rights with civil rights, i.e., the rights accorded by law to a citizen, and goods, such as food, medicine, education, which are the products of human activity. … Continue reading
Training the Mind
A dog does not need training to fulfill its true nature, so why then does a man? That is because man knows good and evil, so his mind is divided. Continue reading
Prerequisites for the Training of the Mind
When it seemed that the whole outer world was known, explored, and catalogued, the idea that the true secrets of the universe lay in the inner exploration of consciousness seemed worthy of a life. Continue reading