The nature of reality: we create it ourselves
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Category Archives: Valentin Tomberg
The Healing Power of the Mind
The Seed of the Future World
Recently someone, claiming to be a Hindu priest despite looking European, informed me vaguely that Westerners misunderstand the Sanatana Dharma. Since my understanding is heavily colored by the writings of Rene Guenon, we shall rely on his essay on that topic included in the collection Studies in Hinduism. We shall … Continue reading
Confronting World Traditions
We must first become Wise like Plato, then Awake like Buddha, and finally overcome death like Christ. Continue reading
The Future of Prophecy
From our friends at Meditations on the Tarot on the birth of the Self in the alchemical marriage.
If You Like, Esoteric Christianity
Tomberg criticizes Gurdjieff’s aims in Meditations on the Tarot as being without grace, and aimed at building a resurrection body apart from Initiation-from-above, although he freely admits the possibility of doing such, tacitly. In Ouspensky’s The Fourth Way, we are given a more detailed, in depth treatment of Gurdjieff’s … Continue reading
The Age of the Feminine
The use of the term “love” to designate an intellectual reality is moreover explained by the fact that sentiment, while being inferior to reason because of its emotional subjectivity, is nevertheless symbolically comparable to what is superior to reason, namely the Intellect; it is so because sentiment, like the Intellect at whose antipodes it stands, is not discursive, but direct, simple, spontaneous, unlimited. Continue reading
Birth and Essence of the Modern Myth (II)
Here we see Julius Evola repeat familiar themes, even verbatim, but in today’s climate, it is well to do so. But besides the outer events of the degeneration of castes, Evola points out how it corresponds to states of consciousness. Not only are the religious, political, and economic structures overturned, … Continue reading
Middle Earth Once More
“By way of such aspects, we see—it is clear—in the Middle Ages an awakening of the true forces already acting in Nordic-Aryan Romanity, of its true solarity, propitiated from such a resurgence or rebirth from a new contribution of Aryan blood…” Gornahoor translating Evola, on Cesaro Indeed, a tremendously sophisticated … Continue reading
Recapitulation
The doctrine of Recapitulation can be deduced from that of karma and sexual union. Continue reading
Deep Materiality
Tomberg remarks in his Meditations that Christianity places the locus of sin, not in the body or material existence (such as he thinks is implied to a degree by Eastern metaphysic), but in the soul. The body, then, as such, becomes rather a focus of redemption and revelation, rather than … Continue reading