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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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The Infinite

Posted on 2011-10-27 by Cologero

This is the dictionary definition of Infinite: Having no boundaries or limits. Immeasurably great or large; boundless: infinite patience; a discovery of infinite importance. Mathematics. Existing beyond or being greater than any arbitrarily large value. Unlimited in spatial extent: a line of infinite length. Of or relating to a set … Continue reading →

It’s up to you

Posted on 2011-10-24 by Cologero

Westerners, including even those who were true metaphysicians up to a certain point, have never known metaphysic in its entirety… Westerners have little natural aptitude for metaphysics Here Rene Guenon shows a uncharacteristic sort of racist thought, since that is hardly a metaphysical proposition, but rather an empirical assertion with … Continue reading →

How we know what we know

Posted on 2011-09-30 by Cologero

In between sensible things and intelligible things, there is the human world, constructed by thought, strained and defiled, which is the ground for both the greater and lesser battles. Continue reading →

Augustine and Metaphysical Positivism

Posted on 2011-08-04 by Cologero

Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi: in interiore hominis habitat veritas. ~ St. Augustine In Auguste Comte’s explanation of Positivism, only data that could be experienced by the senses was acceptable. From that, laws would be inferred, free from any metaphysical or ideological presuppositions. That is sound practice for … Continue reading →

NeoPlatonism & the Faith

Posted on 2011-06-04 by Logres

“Briefly put, the purpose of this whole work [the Divine Comedy] as well as its parts is to remove those living in this present state of life from misery and to lead them all the way to happiness. The kind of philosophy under which we proceed here both in whole … Continue reading →

Parallel Universes and Eternal Return

Posted on 2011-05-24 by Cologero

To the May Bride“I know that I will meet you again and that everything will happen once again exactly as it did so long ago. Except that this time I will not allow you to die. I will hold you in my arms, defending you against the dark waters of … Continue reading →

Fortune’s Fool by Numbers

Posted on 2011-05-14 by Logres

But I think about the hebdomads for myself, and I keep these speculations in my memory rather than sharing them with any of those people whose impertinence and insolence permits nothing to be analyzed without joking and laughter. Accordingly, don’t be opposed to obscurities stemming from brevity; since they are … Continue reading →

Progenitors of Our Middle Earth

Posted on 2011-05-06 by Logres

Since men become happy by acquiring happiness, and since happiness is divinity itself, it follows that men become happy by acquiring divinity. For as men become just by acquiring integrity, and wise by acquiring wisdom, so they must in a similar way become gods by acquiring divinity. Thus everyone who … Continue reading →

Power as Causality

Posted on 2011-04-20 by Cologero

In his important work The World as Power, John Woodroffe lays out the philosophical principles of Tantra, while relating them to the Orthodox Hindu schools and even Western thought. Creation is the manifestation of Consciousness-Power and liberation is participation therein. In successive chapters, he describes Power as Reality, Life, Mind, … Continue reading →

Nonduality

Posted on 2011-04-18 by Cologero

In all of us there dwells a secret marvelous power of freeing ourselves from the changes of time, of withdrawing to our secret selves away from external things, and of so discovering to ourselves the eternal in us in the form of unchangeability. This presentation of ourselves to ourselves is the most truly personal experience upon which depends everything that we know of the supra-sensual world. 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