Thou hast ordered all things in measure and number and mass. ~ Wisdom of Solomon 11:20 A science was less esteemed for itself than for the degree in which it expressed after its own fashion and represented within a certain order of things a reflection of the higher immutable truth … Continue reading
Category Archives: Metaphysics
Creating a World: Day One
It’s curious that even atheists and neo-Darwinists are sometimes willing to believe that the human race was seeded by aliens or even that we “inhabit” a computer simulation created by more advanced beings; in other words, the implication is that the world was designed, albeit not by God. Continue reading
Pinker the Thinker
This young woman understands Eve’s curse, probably better than most. Woman’s sex drive is so strong in order to overcome that reluctance to pregnancy. In most if not all materially advanced countries, the birth rate is becoming precipitously low. Continue reading
Walking out of the Forest
The universe of Being is the tour de force of physics and mathematics. However, it is a universe without love, without life, without consciousness, and without moral life. Those are all mysteries without explanation for science. Nevertheless, the scientist himself experiences all those things. Continue reading
Losing One’s Head
Matter is darkness and consciousness is light. Yet our age considers materialism, the notion that nothing exists but matter, to be the sign of intelligence. Sigmund Freud showed us how there is a drive in his patients toward matter, which he called the death instinct. Collectively, our age loves death. It tries to blot out consciousness with drugs, noise, and distractions. That is considered to be the intelligent option. Continue reading
The Future of Intelligence
One often hears said, “The facts speak for themselves.” On the contrary, the mass of empirical experiences requires an orienting principle to make sense of them. This is one’s world conception, or a person’s general conscious attitude toward the world. Continue reading
The Primacy of Will
When the mind is attached to or obsessed with these thought forms, it is not free. The True Will is free, but that requires the zone of silence from such thoughts. The visionary Anne Catherine Emmerich claimed that if these spirits could be seen by the senses, the vast number of them would occlude the sky. In practical terms, that means that various thoughts are constantly impinging both on the individual as well as on the human race. The elemental spirits are not benign, yet they are not exactly fallen angels. Continue reading
Intellectuality and Organic Logic
the causes of things, the ways of nature, the reason of the universe, the counsel of God, the mysteries of heaven and earth Continue reading