Knowledge of Eastern and Hermetic doctrines are necessary prerequisites for esoteric work. We focus on a few works although each one of them leads to many more. But this is no mere academic training with conferences, meetings, interest groups, and so on. Rather, such teachings must be verified in at … Continue reading
This is the beginning of a slow motion translation, still in progress, of the fundamental texts of metaphysics as described by Rene Guenon. Continue reading
The fulfilment of the “American Dream” is for many societies, especially traditional ones, an eschatological nightmare. Continue reading
The year end statistics for 2021. The big surprise is the increase in female readers and those under 25. Continue reading
We stress that the discussion is always based on practice. Our approach, the esoteric and traditional approach, is not to develop a model of a person, to “be” a person. The former is intellectual, the latter requires an ontological transformation of one’s state of being. Continue reading
We reached 1000 posts yesterday. That is almost 1.3 million words, enough for at least 10 books or so.
It’s been a wonderful experience. Writing makes ideas clearer than reading ever could. Continue reading
On the many-coloured Hans Buenting Map (1581), our world looks like a flower; its three petals present the three continents of Europe, West Asia, Africa, united by the Holy Land. The map allows for a different reading, too: the flower is the faith of Christ and Our Lady, and the three petals are Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Continue reading
It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man’s head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain, and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty. ~ Charles Sanders Pearce Continue reading
Here are the year end statistics as reported by WordPress, MonsterInsights, and Google. The top ten countries by page views were: United States United Kingdom Canada Brazil Greece Australia Portugal Germany Finland Sweden Page views declined by 20%, probably because the post count declined to 30 new articles. Six and … Continue reading
The fifth happiness contains them all principally and unites them synthetically, i.e., the Supreme Identity. Continue reading