Difendere un ideale e tenere le posizioni anche se esse dovessero essere posizioni perdute — o per meglio dire: anche quando dovesse essere problematico che coloro che ancora rimarranno a vegliare durante la notte possano incontrare coloro che appariranno nel nuovo mattino. To defend an ideal and take a stand … Continue reading
The New Intellectual
Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi: in interiore hominis habitat veritas. Don’t go outside yourself, turn back into yourself; the truth resides in the interior of man. ~ St. Augustine The following passage is taken from Ultima Thule by Arthur Branwen, where he is describing the beginning of Evola’s … Continue reading
The Science of Prehistory
In recent times there can be found a significant impulse to return to origins. The origins which appear under a special, spiritual light. Continue reading
Socialism and Christianity
Christianity urges one to give away what is one’s own. Socialism urges one to take what belongs to others. ~ Vladimir Solovyov Lectures on Divine Humanity
Stages of Man
A further stage can be reached when the “I” transcends its identity as a man simpliciter. This “I” knows itself as “I” and understands that the human state is just one of its possible states of being. Continue reading
To Become a Man
To become a man at once is impossible. One has to mould oneself into a man. Here discipline is required. But it is precisely this relentless self-discipline that our present-day thinkers reject. Now it is in the relentless self-discipline and uninterrupted work on one’s self that our citizen could reveal … Continue reading
Tradition and Orthodoxy
We added T. S. Eliot’s lectures titled After Strange Gods to the library because it is based on the theme of Tradition and Orthodoxy. It is interesting as far as it goes, but we prefer Guenon’s use of the same themes since Guenon develops them in a more thorough and … Continue reading
Hyperborean Field
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A Parable
Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end, it would not have reached its goal. A parable. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Men and Ideas
The intrinsic value of an idea and a system must be judged in itself, apart from everything that is part of the world of contingencies. However, from a practical and historical point of view, what is decisive is the quality of the men who make themselves the promoters and defenders … Continue reading