The I lives on as the body unwinds.
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Clementia Dei
The Seven Sacred Liberal Arts
It is no coincidence that the Sacred Liberal Arts are Seven in number: this is the number of the mysteries, the steps towards union with God, and the rays of Creation, as well as the visible planets, the notes in the musical scale, and the steps or levels of the … Continue reading
The Eighth Victory of Hercules Over the Mares of Diomedes
Hercules is sent against another tyrant, Diomedes, who owns man-eating horses in barbarous Thrace, as king of the warlike Bistonians, descended from Mars. Since the myth teaches us that these horses to be fetched are mares, we can identify them as the female psychological side of the male, that is to say, the region of the subconscious psyche, where the Anima dwells, unawakened, and therefore unable to unify with the male psyche and heal its division. Continue reading
Outline/Summary for Evola’s Revolt
Housekeeping note: Logres is the pen name of M. Smallwood, and I appreciate the fellowship and camaraderie of all those here, and at Gnosis group; I thank you all, and also our host. What follows is an outline of the foreword to Revolt against the Modern World, an executive summary, … Continue reading
Order & Right versus The Cathedral
It’s interesting that the title of Evola’s work is almost a prescriptive piece of advice, or a command -“Revolt!”, & that he advocates here a proper understanding of what a revolt would look like if it were legitimate: this is how a kshatriya would act to maintain purity as he … Continue reading
The Metaphysical Principles of the Infintesimal Calculus
As someone who awoke rather late to the importance of mathematics (whose general use for the esoteric student is not only helpful, but even necessary), I decided to read my first full Rene Guenon treatise. The fundamental distinction which he makes is between the Indefinite and the Infinite. Since Wilhelm … Continue reading
The Superstition of Reason
The only way out this impasse is not to partake of the fighting in the rubble and ruin of the Western mental landscape, which is at this point dominated by the bastards of Reason in various titanic forms. Continue reading
The Emperor’s Post
In a healthy civilization, the men of intellect would have supervised the building of the edifice of the Ekklesia, the Oikumene, or the Third Kingdom. This edifice would have centered around the natural revelation of a worldly order, a worldly order ultimately ruled through the self-sacrifice of the Empero Continue reading
The Emperor
“The ones who truly love their traditions don’t take them too seriously. They march to get their heads shot off with a joke on their lips. And the reason is that they know they’re going to die for something intangible, something sprung from their fancy, half humor, half humbug. Or … Continue reading
The Lutheran Reformation
It’s October, and I am thinking, inexorably, of the Protestant Reformation, where my spiritual roots lie. In order to do those roots justice (it does no good to saw them in two), I have to understand the contention made against the Church of the West, the Latin Roman Catholic Church. … Continue reading