You hear — you do not seek; you take — and do not ask who gives: a thought suddenly flashes up like lightning, it comes as a necessity, without hesitation — I have never had any choice in the matter. There is an ecstasy so great that the immense strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears during which one does not know whether one is coming or going. ~ Nietzsche Continue reading
Organic thinking is related to intellectual intuition. As such, it is thinking in depth, or three-dimensional thinking. Mechanical thinking cannot penetrate into the essence of ideas, so it can only see them in relationship to each other. This type of thinking, therefore, is polemical; it needs to takes sides in a debate, to prefer one idea over another. Continue reading
We can praise Mr. Nagel, I suppose, for rediscovering sliced bread, and we hope it doesn’t destroy his reputation. Continue reading
Let us, then, if we can, raise ourselves up to the heights of that supreme intelligence. There reason will be able to see that which it cannot see by itself—it will be able to see how that which has no certain occurrence may be seen by a certain and fixed foreknowledge, a knowledge that is not opinion, but the boundless immediacy of the highest form of knowing. Continue reading
These are some reflections on what chaos means in the context of mathematics and physics. Chaos must be understood as the absence, or privation, of order, not as the opposite of order in any active sense. Continue reading
There are five conditions which corporeal existence is subject to: space, time, matter, form, and life. A body is a material form living in time and space. Continue reading
Metaphysics is an important element of all Traditions. By that we mean an exact science, as precise as mathematics, and as such, it is neither a speculative system nor a matter for philosophical debate. The fundamental tenet of metaphysics is that there are principles that determine or explain the hidden … Continue reading
In the ancient sense, Chaos does not represent the destruction of the ordered physical world, but rather the unmanifested Void that is the principle of heaven and earth, male and female. So behind the physical world, there is a principle that represents the unity of Being. For Heraclitus, there is one Logos, one reason for everything, throughout “the one cosmos which is the same for all.” Continue reading