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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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The Two Nights

Posted on 2022-03-01 by Cologero

Earth creates the illusion of the yellow sun, and the blue sky above. Continue reading →

The Moon was a ghostly Galleon

Posted on 2022-01-08 by Cologero

He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there, but the landlord’s black-eyed daughter. Continue reading →

Donna, nel mio ritorno

Posted on 2021-12-27 by Cologero

Thanks only to my thoughts, I am already with you. Continue reading →

Laudi alla Vergine Maria

Posted on 2021-12-26 by Cologero

In thee compassion is, in thee is pity, In thee magniﬁcence; in thee unites Whate’er of goodness is in any creature. Continue reading →

The lover becomes the thing he loves

Posted on 2021-12-22 by Cologero

But this pure, fair demigoddess,
who with my soul is in accord
exists in my mind as a mere idea Continue reading →

Lady of Shalott

Posted on 2021-12-14 by Cologero

She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott. Continue reading →

As the Sun Brings Fire

Posted on 2021-10-17 by Cologero

Love also comes out of the night, hidden by darkness, so it is a surprise when it suddenly appears. It lights up knowledge. Then there is the knower and the known. Esoterically, knowing is the same as being, so in cosmic love, the knower and the known are One being, entangled throughout time and space. Continue reading →

Heaven and Earth Are Silent

Posted on 2021-10-15 by Cologero

English esoteric translation of Petrarch’s Sonnet 164. Continue reading →

Laura and the Fedeli d’Amore

Posted on 2021-06-23 by Cologero

The Fedeli d’Amore represent Sophia — the transcendent intelligence, Madonna Intelligenza. or Divine Wisdom — under the guise of romantic poetry Continue reading →

Sonnet to the Knight

Posted on 2021-02-19 by Cologero

The Knight’s final journey, following his Psychopomp.
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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