There is a rich source of teachings on metaphysics, spiritual practice, meditation, and contemplation. It is hubris for anyone to think he or she can recreate all that de novo. Continue reading
Category Archives: Tradition
The Second Precept of Love
It is clear that the world cannot reflect God who, by definition, by necessity, by absoluteness, is invisible, that not removing, however, what is visible, insofar as it is visible, it is also the sign, imprint, mirror, reflection of the invisible, and that the visible breaks itself, shatters itself indefinitely because it cannot contain the invisible. Continue reading
Our Father Course: Week 6
Meditation on God’s blessings and judgment. Continue reading
Advent Meditation 4: Incarnation of the Logos
The Christian Hermetist aspires to mystical experience of the communion of beings through love. Continue reading
Divine Journey Summary
Our path is that of the spiritual knight, who is active in the world. This provides the opportunity to manifest all the possibilities of the Self. Continue reading
The Inferior States of the Being
At the death of the body an ordinary person loses his personality, which was an illusory thing even while that person was alive. The person is then reduced to a shadow. Continue reading
Guide to Meditative Reading
Genesis, the Gospels, and the Apocalypse dominate the readings for the Our Father Course. Since those books (and there are others) are understood by Valentin Tomberg to be composed of spiritual exercises, he gives us some clues about how to read such books. Keep these points in mind as you … Continue reading
The Butterfly Lovers
The first of men, Fuxi crystallized the Primordial Tradition, Lao Tzu drew from it a body of doctrine, Confucius drew from it a system of morality. Continue reading
Meditation on the Trinity
Guenon’s life project was to develop a “common understanding” “between various traditional doctrines.” We can now hope that there are indeed “qualified individuals capable of taking the initiative of an effective rapprochement such as the one I am thinking of”. Continue reading
The Dragon Path
The Emperor Fohi collected the metaphysical and cosmogonic mysteries of the Primordial Tradition under the title I Ching. The set of 64 symbols contains the mysteries and describes how to reach higher stages. Continue reading