1. Introduction : the Voice of God When we speak of the Bible, we speak of the Christ-Logos as the recapitulation of the Word of God as it fills the universe as a sign of God’s will, inscribed in the order of all things. It is therefore necessary to meditate … Continue reading
Category Archives: Tradition
Hercules’ Sixth Task: The Stymphalian Birds
Stymphalian Birds Hercules now advances to the sphere of war. Openly, now, following the altruistic stooping to help the needy and the “folk”, Hercules comes bearing arms against the wicked. It is almost as if Hercules has doubly earned the right to tilt in combat, through having served as a … Continue reading
The Labors of Hercules, Part 5
The Augean Stables Hercules does not go immediately into action or battle, following his insult from the gods: Hera’s madness that causes him to murder his own offspring is the “fall” or primordial condition of sinful man who is an enemy to himself and his own kith/kin, let alone everyone … Continue reading
The Paradisal State
In this fully integral state, Adam shared a human nature, a divine nature, and an angelic nature. To grasp this state of being, we need to focus on the part of the soul that transcends the body. Continue reading
The Metaphysics of Reintegration
The fundamental aim of the French Hermetic Tradition, insofar as it is infused with Martinism, is Reintegration, that is, the restoration of the wholeness of man that was broken as a result of the Fall. In other words, it seeks the return to the Primordial State of Adam. Since the … Continue reading
Labors of Hercules, Part 4
The Erymanthian Boar Hercules had been given the (originally) ten labors as a penance for letting Hera drive him to wrath, in which he slew his six sons. So don’t let anyone tell you that penance is a “Catholic” thing. All of the labors center around a primordial world of … Continue reading
The Labors of Hercules, Part 3
The Third Test, The Ceryneian Hind For the third labor, Hercules was given a retrieval task instead of a slaying to accomplish. Since Hercules could not be overcome with guile & brute force, it was hoped that he could be made to trespass against a god, & have divine fury … Continue reading
Labors of Hercules, Part 2
The story continues: Hercules has an adversary, Eurystheus, who is the current king and holds regnum over Hercules’ territory. Now, in the esoteric Christian tradition, Satan is not our “enemy”, but our “adversary” – there is a subtle, but distinct difference (Alain Benoist has come to the conclusion that the … Continue reading
The Future of Prophecy
From our friends at Meditations on the Tarot on the birth of the Self in the alchemical marriage.
The Labors of Hercules, Part One
Hercules and the Lion Hercules is a picture of the strong man, who binds: in Christ’s parables, he uses the image to refer to Satan, who always imitates God in a perverse manner. Esoterically, we might say that for most people (excluding Tomberg’s mysterious “just man”), “Satan makes the first … Continue reading