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Category Archives: Hermetism
Conscious Participation in World Events
Meditation leads to conscious participation in objective world events. Continue reading
Violence and Revolution
The cause of all wars and revolutions — in a word, of all violence — is always the same: the negation of hierarchy. ~ Valentin Tomberg What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. ~ Joseph de Maistre While the world … Continue reading
Have you ever drunk the Silence?
Concentration without effort … is your life tossed to and fro by random events, thoughts, feelings? Or do you live life consciously? It begins with Silence … Rene Guenon claimed that at times when the authorities had lost the inner meaning of things, initiates would pose as jugglers or horse … Continue reading
Man Makes himself Happy and Immortal
Theory of the Will In The Key of the Mysteries, Eliphas Levi, who was a devout Catholic at least in his own mind, promises to harmonize reason with faith, and to exhibit true religion with such characters, that no one, believer or unbeliever, can fail to recognize it; that will … Continue reading
Scire, Potere, Audere, Tacere
Scire, Potere, Audere, Tacere To know, to be able, to dare, to keep silent ~Zoroaster Nature does not open the door of the sanctuary to anyone. In these pages, the uninitiated will perhaps discover some proof of a genuine and positive science. I do not however, flatter myself that I … Continue reading
Program for Beginners
Furnish your mind as completely as possible with the knowledge of how to inspect and control it. Train your body to obey your mind, and not to distract its attention. Control your mind to devote itself wholly to discover your True Will. Explore the course of that will till you … Continue reading
The French Hermetic Tradition
Valentin Tomberg explains why he wrote his meditations on the major arcana of the Tarot in French: These letters were written in French, which is not the mother tongue of the author, because it is in France, and in France only, that a living literature on the Tarot has been … Continue reading
The Lamp of Trismegistus
The Hermit is not really a misanthrope. He loves humanity, but objectively and intellectually, not sentimentally. But humanity prefers sentiment, or the illusion of love, to real love. Continue reading
The Wise Man rules the Elements
In Transcendental Magic, Eliphas Levi quotes from a “Hebrew manuscript of the 16th century” regarding the powers and privileges of the Mage. They are grouped in three septenaries, with a conclusion, corresponding to the 22 Hebrew letters of the alphabet. First Septenary He beholds God face to face, without dying, … Continue reading