First and foremost, I will tell you who should work in this work, and when, and by what means: and what discretion you shall have in it. If you ask me who shall work thus, I answer you—all who have forsaken the world in a true will. ~ The Cloud of Unknowing Continue reading
The most ancient Traditions are expressed in the form of poetry as, for example, in the Hindu Mahabharata, which includes the Bhagavad Gita, or the poems of Homer. These poems were originally sung, rather than read, by the priests or wandering cantors. As we have pointed out, poetry reaches a … Continue reading
To the Queen of Heaven & inspired by Eliot’s Sunday Morning… “Young Mary of the sky-blue cloak, The lily hands, the dusty feet- Indefectible awoke, From her soul’s noetic heat. She held an angel in her eye, She spoke the flame with Seraphim- Interchanging earth and sky, Shock the changeless … Continue reading
Came he among the whispering wood, or in the golden meads, Still he holds the cypress crown, which gold Apollo gave. Walked he in stormy wind about or in the laze of noon, Yet still he sings the song around, eternal end too soon. He rose above the blue sky … Continue reading
Quick, quiet is the snow on a low hill Continue reading
From Chapter 3, The Empress, Meditations on the Tarot. But it so happens that in human consciousness one separates the inseparable – in forgetting the unity. One takes a branch of the tree and cultivates it as if exists without the trunk. The branch can have a long life, but … Continue reading
Philosopher The Philosopher, in the Traditional sense, is a lover of Wisdom, which is the intuitive knowledge of the Ideas. The goal of the Philosopher is, then, to be a Wise Man, or Sage. His method is the examined life, or self-knowledge, which differs from the natural knowledge of the … Continue reading
Titus Burckhardt, in his essay “Because Dante Was Right,” argues that one of the main themes of the Commedia is “the reciprocal relationship between knowledge and will.” Knowledge of the eternal truths is potentially present in the human spirit or intellect, but its unfolding is directly conditioned by the will, … Continue reading
Divine Sophia appeared to me in my dreams Continue reading