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
Category Archives: Tradition
Through the Illusion, into the Dream
Gornahoor has been emphasizing the ancient ideal of polis over against the modern cosmopolitanism and egalitarianism. One might note that democracy is a code word; it certainly doesn’t stand for government of the people for the people – just ask the patriotic, conservative British Jew Glasman what happens when you … Continue reading
The Russian Turn
Alexander Dugin has pointed out that Russia has had no Enlightenment. In the context of this survival & ancient adversarial relationship towards the West, Nicholas Berdyaev is worth quoting in full (he is analyzing the Westernizer Trubetskoi): In this world there is no mystical translucency. But after his devastating of … Continue reading
Bonfire of the Vanities
One cannot possess the virtues, while remaining obsessed with lusts and the “satisfaction of life”. And where there is lawlessness, someone must lay down the law. Continue reading
The Breath of Life
Try to remember why you chose this particular life, its qualities, your parents, your world. Then you will understand. Continue reading
And God Created Woman
Eve was already inside Adam… she was not only in his body with him but also in soul and spirit with him. Continue reading
Yahweh’s Template
For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. In the madness of materialism the West delivers its great thinkers to the graveyard of thoughts, and tramples those in the dirt, who wish to abjure … Continue reading
Zarathustra
The eternal Dream is borne on the wings of ageless Light that rends the veil of the vague and goes across Time weaving ceaseless patterns of Being ~ Rabindranath Tagore, Santiniketan As initiates from Lao Tzu to Fabre d’Olivet and Rene Guenon show us, there are three powers driving history, … Continue reading
Kind Hearts, & Norman Blood
Gewusst, Erkannt, Geahndet – Schelling What is now called the Christian religion already existed among the ancients, and was not lacking at the very beginnings of the human race. When Christ appeared in the flesh, the true religion already in existence received the name of Christian. ~ Augustine of Hippo … Continue reading
The Owl of Minerva
philosophy can only understand a cycle at its end. Hence, it is not helpful at its beginning, so anyone who is now engaged in the “battle of ideas” can hope for little more than a pyrrhic victory. Continue reading