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Liber esse, scientiam acquirere, veritatem loqui

Ex Machina or the Esoteric Turing Test
2015-11-23
In which, under the guise of a film review, we discuss Turing’s test, the nature of animal man, and the treachery of woman. We conclude with the revelation of the method if…
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Institutions, Intellectuals, Mystics
2014-11-23
The prerogative of the human state is objectivity; the essential content of which is the Absolute. There is no knowledge without objectivity of the intelligence; there is no freedom without objectivity of…
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Restoration, Revival, Renaissance
2013-11-23
The order of these nouns is deliberate. Secular humanists desire to have the last without either of the first two, particularly and most insistently, the first. Christians are generally unconcerned or even…
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Gothic Christianity
2012-11-23
John Ruskin, (pp. 189-191), Bible of Amiens: “Quite the most beautiful sign of the power of true Christian-Catholic faith is this continual acknowledgement by it of the brotherhood – nay, more, the…
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Ideas and Hidden History
2011-11-23
Space, Time, Substance, and Ideas. Continue reading →
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When the Angels Disappear

Posted on 2018-05-24 by Cologero

What a man is ultimately depends on his own consciousness. Therefore, attempts to alter the material conditions of life, e.g., through legal means, so-called “safe spaces”, etc., will have limited effect. Continue reading →

The Temptation of the Absolute

Posted on 2018-02-15 by Cologero

Once thought has attained the Absolute, it sees religion as simply an appearance of the Absolute. However, if you accept a version of panpsychism, then the Absolute is not simply an object of thought. It, too, must be conscious and have a Mind, i.e., it is also a subject. Continue reading →

The Nature of Things

Posted on 2018-01-21 by Cologero

Melancholy is thus hidden at the center of the modern world. It is evaded through the pursuit of material goods and ever more exotic pleasures. Death is denied even though popular culture is replete with stories of death and murder. Continue reading →

Mind and Cosmos

Posted on 2015-11-11 by Cologero

Being a review of Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False, by Thomas Nagel. A couple of weeks ago I watched the notorious atheist and Darwinist Richard Dawkins interviewed by a non-descript host on a cable news network. Since the context was a … Continue reading →

The God of the Metaphysicians

Posted on 2015-11-03 by Cologero

The goal of true philosophy is knowledge of the whole. Continue reading →

Social Surgery

Posted on 2015-08-19 by Cologero

Does society have the right to determine its genetic future? An anti-Christian philosopher and a prominent Christian theologian consider the issue. Continue reading →

Esoteric Platonism

Posted on 2015-06-11 by Cologero

God bears in the intelligible world to reason and its objects the same relation which the sun bears in the visible world to sight and its objects. ~ Plato, Republic Continue reading →

Esoteric Stoicism

Posted on 2015-06-04 by Cologero

Love becomes the highest goal, even higher than apatheia. Love, in this sense, is more than worldly friendship or family affection; it is a spiritual love. The overcoming of negative emotions, the state of apatheia, is preparation for this higher stage. Continue reading →

Paganism 2.0

Posted on 2015-05-03 by Cologero

I see and approve what is better, but follow what is worse. ~ Ovid, Metamorphoses Continue reading →

Myths, Symbols, and Lies

Posted on 2014-12-04 by Cologero

We live in a world ruled by lies. Lying and stealing are the dominant elements of human character whatever the race, creed or caste. Whoever says that this is not true simply tells another lie. Man lies because in a world ruled by lies it is not possible for him to do otherwise. Continue reading →

Some men return to their past, so that new forces may arise for the reconquest ~ J. Evola
Par l'espace, l'univers me comprend et m'engloutit comme un point ; par la penseé, je le comprends.~ Pascal
A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace. ~ Confucius
Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi: in interiore hominis habitat veritas. ~ St. Augustine
A man of talent is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot hit, but the man of genius is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot see. ~ Schopenhauer
To live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often. ~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
I believe in being free, acquiring knowledge, and telling the truth. ~ H. L. Mencken
On se lasse de penser, et même d'agir; jamais on ne se lasse d'aimer. ~ Auguste Comte
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson
The divine sleeps in the rock, breathes in the plant, dreams in the animal, and wakes in man. ~ old Nordic adage
The strong man strikes only when it is absolutely necessary, and then nothing stops him. ~ Vilfredo Pareto
Pour l’homme de droite, être libre ne consiste pas à faire ce que l’on veut, mais à faire ce qui est conforme à l’ordre naturel voulu par Dieu.
Very few battles are lost physically. Battles are lost almost always morally; the real victor like the real loser is the one who believes he is. ~ Joseph de Maistre