Gornahoor has conducted a number of thought exercises, designed to aid the aspirant in “mental fasting”, a discipline of dropping old thoughts and thought-patterns or memes (compulsions). These exercises involve recovering a sense of Self that is already there, or (as it was put), laying aside the chain-mail of discursive … Continue reading
The Makropoulous Affair
Janacek’s famous opera, The_Makropulos_Affair centers around the discovery of a secret elixir which can actually grant the brewer immortality. Continue reading
Mouravieff Continues
Boris Mouravieff’s opus is a testimony to his own search for truth, & to the unity of that very Truth which he sought. Here he speaks of the complex nature of grasping an infinite Truth, which often occurs in stages – It is only after the Second Threshold that the … Continue reading
The Church that was Left Behind
For many Christians, referring to a “secret Gospel” is either presumptuous, dangerous, or absurd — perhaps a bit of all three. And, indeed, such fears are usually the case with those who go in quest of Gnostic hierophanies – just witness the popular mesmerization over the Da Vinci code novels … Continue reading
Lesser & Greater Mysteries
Galahad & Grail Boris Mouravieff’s Gnosis is a bridge between the Lesser Mysteries of orthodox Christianity and the Greater Mysteries promised in the Nordic tradition, as is clear from Mouravieff’s passage concerning the existence of two types of humanity on earth: In the first volume of ‘Gnosis’, we had already … Continue reading
The Seven Steps of Esoteric Christianity
“What had so often occurred individually within the Mystery schools, far from external events, took place openly within Jesus Christ in outer world history.” – Rudolph Steiner Despite Evola’s condemnation of Steiner as a “hopeless muddle”, a closer look into Christianity can uncover patterns that might make us take Steiner … Continue reading
The Celestial & Super-Celestial
Exerpts from “Disputation Against the Judgement of the Astrologers” Now because things always proceed in the same order, it is not by chance that there is some other determined cause outside matter and above the natural principle of agency, by whose intention individual things lead appropriately to the most perfect … Continue reading
Through the Illusion, into the Dream
Gornahoor has been emphasizing the ancient ideal of polis over against the modern cosmopolitanism and egalitarianism. One might note that democracy is a code word; it certainly doesn’t stand for government of the people for the people – just ask the patriotic, conservative British Jew Glasman what happens when you … Continue reading
The Russian Turn
Alexander Dugin has pointed out that Russia has had no Enlightenment. In the context of this survival & ancient adversarial relationship towards the West, Nicholas Berdyaev is worth quoting in full (he is analyzing the Westernizer Trubetskoi): In this world there is no mystical translucency. But after his devastating of … Continue reading