Part II ⇒ This is part I on the role of the Warrior caste in a Traditional Society. Here Guido De Giorgio describes the role of the warrior caste and its relationship to the priestly caste. He then relates that to the Great War and and the Lesser War. In … Continue reading
March Madness
This is an announcement from Obama that you may hear before the year is out: Obama: I have determined that all the problems in the world stem from certain events involving Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Therefore, I am proposing legislation to ensure that something like that … Continue reading
Unserious Meditations
I used to think that books like Brave New World and 1984 were intended to warn us about what may happen. Now I realize their purpose was to prepare us to welcome the brave new world with open arms and closed minds. Continue reading
The Establishment of a Traditional Society: Priests (III)
⇐ Part II This is the third and final installment from Guido De Giorgio‘s chapter on the priestly caste from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition]. He continues the discussion on faith. He points out that when the priesthood deteriorates, it gives rise to priesthood of solitary Ascetics. Although they … Continue reading
The Establishment of a Traditional Society: Priests (II)
⇐ Part I Part III ⇒ This is the second installment from Guido De Giorgio‘s chapter on the priestly caste from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition]. He sees the process of the degeneration of the castes as beginning, not from the revolt of the Kshatriya, but rather from the … Continue reading
News on President’s Day
The USA changed from a culture of character to a culture of personality. The effect is that people now admire movie and rock stars, athletes, and those who put on the best show. The new gospel seems to be The vulgar shall inherit the earth. Continue reading
The Synthesis of All Traditions
It is true that many vestiges of a forgotten past are coming out of the earth in our age, and perhaps not without reason. ~ Rene Guenon, Traditional Forms and Cosmic Cycles Guenon wrote that well before the discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library. The … Continue reading
Living the Dream
Your life is what remains after you die and that life is eternal. That, then, is the life you are creating and there can be no doubt about it. Truth resides in the interior of man, hence restoration must begin in the interior. Therefore, changing the persons, places, conditions, and events of our outer life will amount to nothing if we don’t first address the disorder in our inner life. Continue reading
Absolute Man, Absolute Woman
A man approaches to this Ideal not by eliminating the feminine principle but rather by uniting with it in the Spiritual Marriage. Continue reading
The Coronation of the King
Signs of decline: substitution of feeling for knowing as a basis for judgment; altruism will take the place of that of justice; words will be used for their emotive effect than as the vehicle of thought Continue reading