Originally published in November, 2005 for a private seminar studying non-dual writings. The race of the spirit predominant in a person, in a people, in a community, is given by the orienting characteristic assumed toward the sacred and the divine, life and death, destiny, the world. Noi possediamo una verità, … Continue reading
Knowledge and Love
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after. Continue reading
Ontotheology
The metaphysician understands experience as a seamless, indefinable, alogical continuum, so it is grasped as a whole, beyond time and space. Continue reading
Rape of the Sabine Women
There is nothing inapplicable to today. Even for Christians, divine predilection and predestination are dogmas, although you don’t hear much about them today. God will favor some over others, in particular, those who offer prayer and sacrifice. Continue reading
Priest and King in Rome
These king-priests were inaugurated with a religious ceremonial. The new king, being conducted to the summit of the Capitoline Hill, was seated upon a stone seat, his face turned towards the south. On his left was seated an augur, his head covered with sacred fillets, and holding in his hand the augur’s staff. He marked off certain lines in the heavens, pronounced a prayer, and, placing his hand upon the king’s head, supplicated the gods to show, by a visible sign, that this chief was agreeable to them. Then, as soon as a flash of lightning or a flight of birds had manifested the will of the gods the new king took possession of his charges. Continue reading
The Multiverse and Massachusetts
I had the opportunity this weekend to watch an interview on C-Span with the physicist Brian Greene, conducted at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts. The topic was the multi-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanic and the all-white audience was mostly students and retired folk. I know that tribe intimately, … Continue reading
Romans and Spartans at War
The Spartans remain immovable, their shields placed at their feet, without even putting themselves on the defensive against the arrows of the enemy. They await the signal of the gods. At last the victims offer the favorable signs; then the Spartans raise their shields, seize their swords, move on to battle and are victorious. Continue reading
The Religious Attitude
He faces up to reality, without veils, in its tragic, irrational, unprovidential nature. Continue reading
Against the Neopagans
On the Internet, there is an essay, attributed to Julius Evola, going by the title of “Against the Neopagans.” Since it has been so widely disseminated, it is impossible to know its source or the motivation behind it. In fact, it is the translation into English from the German translation … Continue reading
Metaphysics of Freedom
Conscience is neither a product nor a function of character. It is above it and it is only here where the domain of freedom is found. One is free … when one judges and acts according to Justice or conscience. Continue reading