Without that guiding light, a knight stumbles in the darkness or wanders aimlessly like a lion on the savannah. Ahriman is the supreme bureaucrat, who strives to organize everything to keep it in its place, to subdue it, to confine it to logic. Artificial intelligence is his dream and our nightmare. Continue reading
Some say iguanas are a myth. Others dismiss them as a conspiracy theory. A few know the truth. Continue reading
the realities comprising the external world are not immediately or directly given in consciousness, but are abstractions of them in varying degrees performed by the external and internal senses, and transformed into knowledge of the external world by means of intellectual construction. Continue reading
One thing that struck me about Descartes, and I’ve remembered it my entire life, was that he was allowed to lie in bed in the morning. He retained that habit throughout his life as he believed it was “conducive to intellectual profit and comfort.” I’ve never had that luxury until the last dozen years or so. Since I am now blessed with insomnia, I awaken early in the morning. I just simply lie still with nothing but my thoughts and prayers. Every now and then a revelation comes to me and a post is born. Continue reading
If I remove the Latin from Maritain’s book and the Arabic from Naquid’s book, the metaphysical principles are virtually indistinguishable. Continue reading
It is said that when you know yourself, you know God. That is not because of human effort. Rather, God is the mirror in which you see yourself in your perfection because you can never see God, just as you don’t see the mirror when you look at your reflection. Continue reading
The true essence of everything always abides, though unmanifest in the inner depths of very Being, while its sensory qualities appear outwardly. For it is impossible that the Divine Ideas included in the intelligible world should be evanescent: to pretend that the content of Divine Science is evanescent would imply atheism. Continue reading
The philosopher will read that there is a form of knowing, called “Intuition”, that is superior to what the rational mind can achieve. This is the case in metaphysics from India, to Greece, to Egypt, to Arabia, to the Scholastics. Yet the veil blocks his understanding so he ignores it. Intuition is akin to “seeing”, not to “thinking”. Continue reading
The corporeal world is, in Tradition, composed of five basic elements: Ether, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. That means that the world was understood in a qualitative, not quantitative, sense. As such, they represent the different densities of matter. Continue reading
A necessary stage of the spiritual path is the purification of the Will. In practice, this requires inner vigilance to “see” each and every influence that exercise control of the Will. Only then will it be possible to overcome such influences, which are intruders into our true Being. Ultimately, “free Will” means that our choice arises from the Self alone, not for those intruders. Continue reading