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Doctor Zhivago Unveiled
2021-11-21
Lara has to be the love of his life, with no other. Hence, he catches one final glimpse of her. We may hope that Lara is his Beatrice, the revelation of Sophia,…
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The Finger of Father Sergius
2014-11-21
The celibate path embraced by the monk frees him the strongest attachment to the world. As Nicolas Berdyaev puts it: Man is greatly dependent, sexually, on woman: he has a weakness for…
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The Acting Person
2011-11-21
The soul-body relation is intuitively given in the experience of man as a real being. In this respect the subordination of the system of integration of the human person to the transcendence…
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Spanish Falangism
2010-11-21
As spiritual reality, the state is organic and results from "cells": the family, the local community, and common business and professional associations. It is hierarchical and opposes any class conflict. Continue reading…
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Keeping Warm: David and Abishag

Posted on 2023-01-14 by Cologero

The dream will be fulfilled when the Anima stays and unites with me in consciousness. She will not leave me alone with the texts, but we will each know them in our own way. Then we begin the journey. Continue reading →

Paying the Cost

Posted on 2022-09-25 by Cologero

It takes years of training to teach us to deal intelligently with the world of everyday life. Our schooling — whether in plain reasoning or formal topics — is rigorous, because the knowledge we are trying to impart is very complex. Continue reading →

Traditional Metaphysics

Posted on 2022-09-03 by Cologero

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 →

Meditation on the Trinity

Posted on 2022-08-24 by Cologero

Guenon’s life project was to develop a “common understanding” “between various traditional doctrines.” We can now hope that there are indeed “qualified individuals capable of taking the initiative of an effective rapprochement such as the one I am thinking of”. Continue reading →

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Posted on 2022-08-18 by Cologero

To know God, it is best to rely on the esoterists, saints, prophets, etc., who actually knew God, not some innovator with a novel theory about God. Continue reading →

The Limits of Human Intelligence

Posted on 2022-08-07 by Cologero

Is a complete understanding of the universe totally beyond human capability? Continue reading →

The Dragon Path

Posted on 2022-08-03 by Cologero

The Emperor Fohi collected the metaphysical and cosmogonic mysteries of the Primordial Tradition under the title I Ching. The set of 64 symbols contains the mysteries and describes how to reach higher stages. Continue reading →

Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism

Posted on 2022-06-29 by Cologero

One cannot steal moral dignity, or plunder justice, of appropriate benevolence. These goods are unconditionally desirable. Continue reading →

The Intellect and the Mirror

Posted on 2022-04-07 by Cologero

When the soul is in a state of calm, it reflects the images of the thought and intellect; but when it is disturbed by the disorder produced in the harmony of the body, the thought and the intellect think without the image, and the act of intelligence takes place without being reflected. Continue reading →

Gods of Physics

Posted on 2022-03-06 by Cologero

There is a reason why physicists make lousy philosophers. It’s because they believe that physics itself is philosophy. Continue reading →

Some men return to their past, so that new forces may arise for the reconquest ~ J. Evola
Par l'espace, l'univers me comprend et m'engloutit comme un point ; par la penseé, je le comprends.~ Pascal
A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace. ~ Confucius
Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi: in interiore hominis habitat veritas. ~ St. Augustine
A man of talent is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot hit, but the man of genius is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot see. ~ Schopenhauer
To live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often. ~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
I believe in being free, acquiring knowledge, and telling the truth. ~ H. L. Mencken
On se lasse de penser, et même d'agir; jamais on ne se lasse d'aimer. ~ Auguste Comte
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson
The divine sleeps in the rock, breathes in the plant, dreams in the animal, and wakes in man. ~ old Nordic adage
The strong man strikes only when it is absolutely necessary, and then nothing stops him. ~ Vilfredo Pareto
Pour l’homme de droite, être libre ne consiste pas à faire ce que l’on veut, mais à faire ce qui est conforme à l’ordre naturel voulu par Dieu.
Very few battles are lost physically. Battles are lost almost always morally; the real victor like the real loser is the one who believes he is. ~ Joseph de Maistre