Negative Capability is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Continue reading
Involution and Evolution
Creativity, Personality, Sex
To exalt the romantic, tragic, anxious soul, always in search of new “truths”, is essentially something of a civilization sick and damaged in its race. Calmness, style, clarity, command, discipline, power, and the Olympic spirit are instead the points of reference for every formation of character and life. Continue reading
The Soul after Death: Psychic Experience
It frequently happens that a soul on the path of death recognizes those with whom it is to share the same eternal dwelling for equal blame or reward. Continue reading
April Showers 2013
April showers have chased me indoors. Last night I made enough money playing Texas Hold’em to cover the purchase of the UR/KRUR books and Della Riveria’s Magic World of the Heros, so you guys are off the hook. But thanks for the offers. Don’t knock playing cards which are clearly … Continue reading
The Soul after Death
Thoughts have a temporal component, since we think one thought after another, which can all be related sequentially. However, there is no “where”; i.e., one thought is not to the left of another, or across from it, etc. Yet, images in a dream do have a spatial aspect; in the dream, we “go places”, there is different scenery for different places, and so on. Furthermore, since we “see” things, that brings up the question of a “body”; do the figures in a dream have an “astral body” that we then “see”? Continue reading
The Fire of Creation
Today we are truly at the dawn of the coming of the third person in the dialectic of the divine; the direction of creative activity in motion, of the universe in which dynamis or power is the fundamental note, and the immanent presence of the “cosmic Fire” is characteristic of this. Continue reading
Personal Revelations
This post will address some of the more common questions that readers have asked me. Do you Blog full time? With the massive amount of all original content, new translations, not to mention the distasteful duties of a webmaster, maintaining a full-featured web site may look like a full time … Continue reading
Sex and Violence
we are always guided by Augustine’s maxim that the truth lies in the interiority of man. This we shall do by following our earlier analysis of the various faculties of the soul. The forces of thymos and epithymia (or eros) channeled toward higher values, and are dominated by the rational or intellectual soul. Hence, from thymos he experiences the energy or force to strive for transcendence. Epithymia acts as the attractive force. Continue reading
April Fools Talking Blues
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. ~ Giordano Bruno Continue reading
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The I is the Supreme, except it does not know it. The apparitions of a dazzling and unbearable light strike the soul immediately after the separation from the body, with the experience of the real nature of the soul itself. Continue reading