the mainstream of Western philosophy is the history of idealistic thought, which can rightly be seen as “our” tradition and competitors such as nominalism, positivism, and materialism are more like a persistent anti-tradition. Continue reading
Category Archives: Metaphysics
The Fourth Reverence
When you seek to manifest your destiny, are you stirred in your “whole soul in amazed wonder at the greatness and sublimity of the inner faculty in man and the insolubility of the mystery which it conceals”? Do you seek to accumulate things or seek the ideal good? Continue reading
Evola and Guenon
In an interview conducted in the mid 1960s—Julius Evola: A Justified Pessimism—Evola provided a précis of his life’s work. He answered all the questions very simply and it demonstrates how little his ideas changed in the preceding 40 years. This is how he answered the question about the influence of … Continue reading
Tone Deaf to Life
Man’s life is a becoming; and not only becoming, but self-creation. He does not grow under the direction and control of irresistible forces. The force that shapes him is his own will. All his life is an effort to attain to real human nature. But human nature, since man is at bottom spirit, is only exemplified in the absolute spirit of God. Hence man must shape himself in God’s image, or he ceases to be even human and becomes diabolical. Continue reading
Logical Analysis Squared
Logical Analysis Squared = Logical Analysis of a Logical Analysis, from January, 2005. This was a commentary on Chapter 6 of Open Secret by Wei Wu Wei used as the talking points for a regularly meeting group discussing non-duality. Point 1: Objects are only known as the result of reactions … Continue reading