Gornahoor

Liber esse, scientiam acquirere, veritatem loqui

Civilizations of Space and Civilizations of Time
2019-08-25
The remaining traces, often still only in stone, of some of the great civilizations of the origins often contain a rarely noticed meaning. In the face of what remains of the most…
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Primer on Tradition and its Future
2016-08-25
The ignorant are humble since they know that they do not know. The intelligent are humble because they understand how difficult it is to know something. But the half-smart are so absolutely…
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Material Girls and Spiritual Tourists
2015-08-25
I do not tell you to change your life starting tomorrow because of what I have told you. You will not be able to. The characters described below will not be able…
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Finding Agarttha
2010-08-25
In King of the World, Guenon documents Christianity’s loss of its primordial Tradition as the gradual break of the link to its spiritual centre. This break occurred in stages following the period…
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The Gornahoor Project
2010-08-25
Based on some exchanges lately, we feel the need to make clear the purpose of the Gornahoor Project. There is one distinction, and one distinction only: that between Tradition and anti-Tradition. Elaborating…
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Logos and the Primordial Tradition

Posted on 2010-12-28 by Cologero

It is a fundamental belief of the Hindus that the universe is law-abiding to the core, and yet that man is free to shape his own destiny in it. Continue reading →

Life without Logos

Posted on 2010-12-28 by Cologero

We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this … Continue reading →

Incarnation of the Logos

Posted on 2010-12-26 by Cologero

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light … Continue reading →

Guenon, Maritain, Thomism

Posted on 2010-12-15 by Cologero

The young man who will take up this task may already have been born. Continue reading →

Metaphysical Positivism

Posted on 2010-11-17 by Cologero

We, on the contrary—basing ourselves on a tradition much more ancient and real than the one which can be claimed by the “faith” of Western man, on a tradition which is not proved by doctrines, but by deeds and acts of power and clairvoyance—affirm instead the possibility and the concrete … Continue reading →

Love Advice for the Metaphysician

Posted on 2010-11-03 by Cologero

Note: This originally was part of the notes for an open class in non-duality, given in the summer of 2005. The metaphysician claims that every aspect of the empirical world is a symbol of some deeper metaphysical reality. Metaphysically, birth is not a matter of chance; therefore it is not … Continue reading →

The Confusion of Levels

Posted on 2010-09-20 by Cologero

In The Reign of Quantity, Guenon has a chapter on the consequences of the failure of modern man to distinguish between the psychic and the spiritual without, however, clearly delineating the distinction. Man is a tripartite being, consisting of body, soul, and spirit. Each level has its own proper functions, … Continue reading →

The Metaphysics of Imperfection

Posted on 2010-07-05 by Cologero

One’s circle is never closed, one’s past is not the future, one’s work is never finished … … the primitive craftsman leaves in his work something unfinished, and that the primitive mother dislikes to hear the beauty of her child unduly praised; it is “tempting Providence”, and may lead to … Continue reading →

Chess and the Royal Art

Posted on 2010-05-10 by Cologero

True wisdom is a more or less perfect identification with the Spirit, symbolized by the geometrical quality of the chessboard, seal of the essential unity of the cosmic possibilities. Continue reading →

Metaphysical Knowledge

Posted on 2010-05-10 by Cologero

The following quotes are taken from Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines by Rene Guenon. They characterize the nature of the metaphysical enterprise. 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