Possession is the consequence of engendering elemental beings and then being enslaved by one’s own creations Continue reading
Category Archives: Valentin Tomberg
Paradise Lost
In the fallen state, the World is experienced as oppressive, a system of unchanging laws, the plaything of ineluctable destiny. In the world of Creation, life returns, and the world is understood once again as a creative work of art. Continue reading
Complexes, Tulpas and Egregores
Traditional doctrine states that we have wished all relevant events in our life before birth. Continue reading
Spiritual LARPing
Friday the 13th was the day the Templars were destroyed. This post is dedicated to them. Continue reading
Demonic Possession
The Fall introduced distortions into the three functions of the soul: Thinking, Feeling, Willing. The centre of gravity fell from the Real I to the I of the personality. Continue reading
Members of the Crew
Exoterism lives in “processes”, esoterism in tragedies and dramas. … The ancient mysteries were tragedies and dramas— it is here where their esoteric character lies. Exoterism corresponds to the mentality and psychology of a passenger, esoterism to that of a member of the crew. Continue reading
The Stages of the Fall
In order to achieve the alchemical transformation, the stages of the Fall of man documented in Genesis need to be understood. Although there are four levels of interpretation of sacred texts, the historical or literal, the allegorical, and the moral levels are not our concern here. Continue reading
Spiritual Challenge and Renewal
A religious factor is necessary as the background for a true heroic conception of life that must be essential for our political alignment. It is necessary to feel in oneself the evidence that there is a higher life beyond this terrestrial life, because only those who feel this way possess … Continue reading
The Temptations in the Wilderness
Force is unspiritual time, chance the lack of causality, and matter, the mechanization of life. The results are sleep, prostration, and death. Continue reading
Myth as Eternal Idea
Every myth expresses, in a form narrated for a particular case, an eternal idea, which will be intuitively recognised by him who re-experiences the content of the myth. Continue reading