Ideas belong to no one; they are what they are. ~ Charles Maurras, My Political Ideas Tonight, I’m outlining the plan for translating a series of essays by Charles Maurras. This fulfills a promise and responds to a challenge. The promise was made in the comments section of Taki’s Magazine … Continue reading
Nietzsche and the Gospel of Buddhism
From the thirteenth to the twentieth century one can follow the progressive decay of life: the ever fainter expression of the creative will, loosening social integration, the substitution of contract for status, the advancement of material and moral to the exclusion of spiritual values, the decline of vision, up to this present hour of pure chaos, when life and art are evidence of centuries of aimlessness. Continue reading
Logos and Chaos
In the ancient sense, Chaos does not represent the destruction of the ordered physical world, but rather the unmanifested Void that is the principle of heaven and earth, male and female. So behind the physical world, there is a principle that represents the unity of Being. For Heraclitus, there is one Logos, one reason for everything, throughout “the one cosmos which is the same for all.” Continue reading
Letters from Guenon to Guido de Giorgio (VI)
In spite of everything that I know of Evola, especially from you, I was a little surprised by his refusal to use your article [for Ur]. I ask myself, under these conditions, why he is so insistent that I send him something, because he must certainly think what I would write would also be totally traditional, and consequently, would not satisfy him at all. Continue reading
Letters from Guenon to Guido de Giorgio (V)
the use of symbols comparable to Hermetic symbols is also totally general, and these symbols are not opposed at all to natural symbols, but, on the contrary, they are connected very normally. Furthermore, the symbolic character of all manifestation permits us to give to historic facts, as well as to all the rest, a value completely different from what they have in themselves. Continue reading
Man, Woman, and Self
For Adam, the Self is dead, represented by the rib since the bones are the last to decay. That rib is vivified by Eve, who appears therefore as the exteriorization of his own Self. She is almost his identical twin, genetically the same apart from her having two X chromosomes, his “reciprocal”. Hence, she is the perfect woman for him. In knowing Eve, Adam is knowing himself. Continue reading
2016: Obama’s America
I saw the surprising hit movie 2016: Obama’s America this past weekend and am still unsure what its point is. It is the brainchild of the Anglo-Indian Dinesh D’Souza First of all, it was certainly a well-produced and researched documentary; as such, it is a model of what can—and should—be … Continue reading
Letters from Evola to Eliade (I)
I was thinking, and am still thinking (since I am at the point of having finished what I had attempted to do in the West) of going to India to stay there. One of my correspondents convinced me that it would not be worth the trouble, unless I go to Kashmir or Tibet and I have a way to introduce myself into some of the rarest centers that still conserve the Tradition but are excessively suspicious of any foreigners. Continue reading
The Valorization of the Middle Ages
Occasionally the question comes up, as it has again this week, as to why we focus so much on the spirituality, symbolism, social structures, and history of the Middle Ages. Although the answer can be pieced together from various posts, it may be good to summarize it in one place. … Continue reading
A True Couple from among Mankind
Rabbi John said: to bring together a true couple from among mankind is more difficult than Moses’ miracle in parting the Red Sea. So says the rather odd Mr. Egyolk, a Russian Hasidic Jew, in Gustav Meyrink‘s The Green Face. One of the subplots in the book involves a group … Continue reading