Gornahoor

Liber esse, scientiam acquirere, veritatem loqui

Meditation on the Trinity
2022-08-24
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…
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The Labors of Hercules, Part 3
2013-08-24
The Third Test, The Ceryneian Hind For the third labor, Hercules was given a retrieval task instead of a slaying to accomplish. Since Hercules could not be overcome with guile & brute…
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Petrine Initiation in the “Old World” of Pure Intellect
2012-08-24
The debate with the old workman continues, and he assures Peter he is no demagogue: I am not such a fool in my old age that, understanding what is true, I should…
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Does Death Exist
2011-08-24
Do you believe in existence after death? Do the dead continue to live in some form, and can we meet them? Continue reading →
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Naturalism and Interwar Germany
2008-08-24
Both movements suffered from a confusion of Traditional elements with ideals from the Enlightenment. Insofar as they were dominated by materialism, economic concerns, and scientism, they lacked a transcendent — and hence,…
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Petrine Initiation in the “Old World” of Pure Intellect

Posted on 2012-08-24 by Logres

The debate with the old workman continues, and he assures Peter he is no demagogue: I am not such a fool in my old age that, understanding what is true, I should deny it for the favor of the rabble. Niceta proposes that Peter be the master of the debate, … Continue reading →

The Divine Journey

Posted on 2012-08-23 by Cologero

Man and his Becoming will draw the attention of the well trained and qualified reader. It will also become the source of misunderstandings for a certain category of “third rate” critics and intellectuals who oscillate between platitudes and political and spiritual fancies. Continue reading →

The Possible and the Real

Posted on 2012-08-08 by Cologero

every possibility that is a possibility of manifestation must necessarily be manifested by that very fact, and that, inversely, any possibility that is not to be manifested is a possibility of non-manifestation. Continue reading →

The Possibility of Liberation

Posted on 2012-07-25 by Cologero

Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Nevertheless, it is much more reliable than wishful thinking. In The Multiple States of Being, Rene Guenon explains Traditional doctrine in Western terms, free of religious symbolism and Sanskrit terms. The universal Whole, or Absolute, can also be considered from the … Continue reading →

The Beginning of the World

Posted on 2012-04-03 by Cologero

Time, like space, is the realization of an idea or possibility. A world consists of a certain set of possibilities. When all the possibilities of a world have been manifested, that world ends. Continue reading →

The Garden of Metaphysics

Posted on 2012-04-01 by Cologero

Don’t be deceived by a superficial agreement of goals that hide the lack of a common mind. Be wise as serpents. Continue reading →

Thought, Word, Symbol

Posted on 2012-03-28 by Cologero

A mental concept is an expression of the reality of the object considered, and that linguistic constructions are an expression of the reality of the mental concepts. There is thus a chain of certainty connecting being, thought, and language. Continue reading →

Rational Man and Real Man

Posted on 2012-02-07 by Cologero

A real man must know himself as Subject, Person, or Self, not as an object whether in his consciousness or in the world. Since to know is to be, the Real Man will also be a Person, not just another individual in the world. There is no formula or program for this task, that is why the hero has a thousand faces. Continue reading →

The Traditional Notion of Causation

Posted on 2012-01-26 by Cologero

As a reminder to old readers, and a notice to the new, let us repeat Gornahoor’s purpose. We claim that there was a Primordial Tradition of the Indo-European peoples, which manifested in the Vedic civilization, Ancient Greece, and Medieval Europe, inter alia. We are not here to teach Aristotle’s four … Continue reading →

Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny

Posted on 2012-01-08 by Cologero

The soul chooses and wills its incarnation. A fortiori, the very nature of the rational soul is intelligence, will, and freedom of choice. 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