It is well understood that all people are or have been in possession of traditions derived from a single source, but in a more or less distinct way. Continue reading
Category Archives: Tradition
The Constitution of a Traditional Society: The Capo (III)
⇐ Part II This is the conclusion to the role of the Leader in a traditional society. It needs to be read meditatively, and not with the intent to refute or falsify it. If read in silence, without the infusion of personal opinions, something very different may be heard. We … Continue reading
The Constitution of a Traditional Society: The Capo (II)
⇐ Part I Part III ⇒ In this second of three parts, Guido De Giorgio expands on the role of the Leader in a traditional society. It is instructive to compare De Giorgio’s point of view with Evola’s idea of the state; De Giorgio includes the spiritual or contemplative aspect … Continue reading
Esoteric Christianity & the Anti-Christ
Part of the problem with standing in the Western ruins involves clearing away the fog of spiritual war, which is deliberate and has the effect of turning the conflict into a free-for-all, in which chaos and confusion deepen demoralization. Rudolf Steiner’s work is important in any history of esoterism, however, … Continue reading
The Constitution of a Traditional Society: The Capo
Part II ⇒ This is part 1 of the concluding section of Guido De Giorgio‘s description of the establishement of a traditional society. Here, he develops the idea of the supreme leader, above the three castes, whose primary duty is the maintenance of Tradition. This section, as a whole, needs … Continue reading
The Trivium & Mystery
Cologero’s translations have provided this gem, from de Giorgio: “We could also call it “intuition” although no psychological quality is given to this term: the psyche in fact is below the spirit, the intellect, the heart—these three terms denoting, under three aspects, the same type of integrative activity of the … Continue reading
The Establishment of a Traditional Society: Workers (IV)
⇐ Part III This is the concluding part of the chapter on the Workers from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition] by Guido De Giorgio. Even those who say and believe they adhere to a tradition have accepted science as the expression of an achievement that, according to them, would … Continue reading
Never the Twain Shall Meet
I chose to write on The Dark Cloud of Unknowing to illustrate something that is true that has been discussed here (that East & West are not divergent in Tradition). The author was an anonymous Englishman during the 14th century; ergo, a quintessential “Western” mystic on an isolated island in … Continue reading
The Establishment of a Traditional Society: Workers (III)
⇐ Part II Part IV ⇒ This is the third part of the chapter on the Workers from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition] by Guido De Giorgio. Here he describes how science changed the nature of work and displaced tradition. Hence, the corporations also originally represented modes of realization … Continue reading
The Philokalia’s Martial Character
“What struck me on the beach–and it struck me indeed, so that I staggered as at a blow–was that if the Eternal Principle had rested in that curved thorn I had carried about my neck across so many leagues, and if it now rested in the new thorn (perhaps the … Continue reading