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Category Archives: cosmology
The Seven Sacred Liberal Arts
It is no coincidence that the Sacred Liberal Arts are Seven in number: this is the number of the mysteries, the steps towards union with God, and the rays of Creation, as well as the visible planets, the notes in the musical scale, and the steps or levels of the … Continue reading
Some Aspects of the Traditional Medical World View: The Demiourgos-Physician
the worldview and practice of traditional medicine studies, contemplates, and actively harmonizes each term of the “Great Triad”, curing and ensuring health, while taking the body as “departure point” for the realization of cosmological and metaphysical Truth. Continue reading
Dante’s Empyrean
There is nothing to know. One can only be it; that is to know it. Continue reading
The Guardian of the Threshold
One of the biggest problems with modern political entities is the question of cybernetics, or “the helmsmen” : who watches the Watchers? Who guards the guardians? This problem is not very effectively answered today; if there was a famine in the year 1200, you knew where the nobleman who was … Continue reading
The Nous
Basil the Great on the Nous. Nevertheless, no one would allege the heaven to be invisible because of what is unknown; it would be said to be visible on account of our limited perception of it. It is just the same in the case of God. If the nous has … Continue reading
Lesser & Greater Mysteries
Galahad & Grail Boris Mouravieff’s Gnosis is a bridge between the Lesser Mysteries of orthodox Christianity and the Greater Mysteries promised in the Nordic tradition, as is clear from Mouravieff’s passage concerning the existence of two types of humanity on earth: In the first volume of ‘Gnosis’, we had already … Continue reading
The Celestial & Super-Celestial
Exerpts from “Disputation Against the Judgement of the Astrologers” Now because things always proceed in the same order, it is not by chance that there is some other determined cause outside matter and above the natural principle of agency, by whose intention individual things lead appropriately to the most perfect … Continue reading
The Dawn of the Gods
We all know about the Twilight of the Gods and how they have abondoned us, but few dare to ask where they came from in the first place. Auguste Comte proposed that humanity has progressed from belief in polytheism to monotheism, then to an all embracing metaphysical or ideological principle, … Continue reading