Extra Ecclesiam non est salus &mda without (outside) the Church there is no salvation. This was the motto of the Christian Church during the Medieval Era, and (supposedly) that which is objectionable in the Church today – the neo-pagans argue that the Church assimilated and reduced what it could not … Continue reading
New Birth, New Death
As the festival of the Gentile world nears, Christmas will cast its inevitable charm over the hardest pagan heart, and it will beguile the most Christian heart (as it humanly should) into a forgetfulness of the metaphysical foundations of the Faith; we will forget our deep questions, and will instead … Continue reading
Mental Death
If you seek the monument to our folly, look about you. In our own day we have seen cities obliterated and ancient faiths stricken. We may well ask, in the words of Matthew, whether we are not faced with “great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world.” Continue reading
The Nous
Basil the Great on the Nous. Nevertheless, no one would allege the heaven to be invisible because of what is unknown; it would be said to be visible on account of our limited perception of it. It is just the same in the case of God. If the nous has … Continue reading
Unweaving the Web of God
From Chapter 3, The Empress, Meditations on the Tarot. But it so happens that in human consciousness one separates the inseparable – in forgetting the unity. One takes a branch of the tree and cultivates it as if exists without the trunk. The branch can have a long life, but … Continue reading
De Te Fabula Narratur
The citizen had no freedom of religion; either he participated in the religion of the city or he was banished. The hierarchy of family, tribe and city introduced the idea of a wider and wider influence of the gods, but the knowledge of the one god had been lost. Philosophers … Continue reading
True North
“It goes without saying, that nobody initiates anybody else, if we understand by initiation the mystery of the Second Birth, the great sacrament, the initiation from above which is operative from above and has the value and duration of eternity. The Initiator is above…” Valentin Tomberg This truth is not … Continue reading
An Interpretation of Genesis
Many Christians assume a strongly “literal” stance upon the first chapter of Genesis. It should go without saying that assuming Genesis 1 to have a perspective like a newspaper is outside of the bounds of any known form of traditionalism, conceivable or not – God did not dictate this to … Continue reading
Good Government
This is a thought experiment based on Rosenstock-Huessy‘s comments in I Am an Impure Thinker. Summarized, they are to the effect that the modern world is a place that likes to “divide time, & conquer space”. Hence our obsession with speed and time, as if we were racing against death. … Continue reading
The Unum Necessarium
“Papers, comrade!” Many traditionalists are going to argue that initiation must transpire through the conduit or under the aegis of an “Order”. That this is a desirable state of affairs is (of course) obvious. When Voldemort’s power is exalted, one looks around for an “Order of the Phoenix” to … Continue reading