Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” … Continue reading
Category Archives: Tradition
The Thinking of Sound and Well-Born Persons
In his self-defense, Evola denied he was a Fascist and insisted that he thought the same as well-bred men with sound minds thought prior to the French Revolution. This recording by Solange Hertz remarkably illustrates how such men thought and viewed the world. She identifies the “Three Plagues” of the … Continue reading
Two Incompatible and Irreconcilable Worldviews
There are two incompatible and irreconcilable worldviews. Anti-tradition One, is the idea that humans evolved from animals and then, even within human society, there is a continual process of evolution and progress to higher stages of intellectuality and morality. Tradition The second is that humans began in a perfected state, … Continue reading
Social Facts and Group Control
Far from exhausting itself in a naturalism — as today only the ignorance or the tendentious falsification of some people are able to present it — beyond knowing the ideals of virile overcoming and of absolute liberation, in the pagan conception, the world was a living body, suffused with secret, divine and demonic forces, with meanings and with symbols. Continue reading
Finding Agarttha
In King of the World, Guenon documents Christianity’s loss of its primordial Tradition as the gradual break of the link to its spiritual centre. This break occurred in stages following the period called the Middle Ages. The first break came with the destruction of the Templars, since the Orders of … Continue reading
Continuity of Tradition
Tradition is not subject to any standard, on the contrary, it is the standard by which to judge a culture. Historical change, in the Traditional sense, is organic, since it develops according to the needs and nature of specific peoples. For example, the rupture between ancient Rome and Holy Rome … Continue reading
True Diversity
In East and West, Rene Guenon makes this fundamental claim: So long as western people imagine that there only exists a single type of humanity, that there is only one ‘civilization’, at different stages of development, no mutual understanding will be possible. The truth is that there are many civilizations, … Continue reading
Tradition and the New Age
There are two competing spiritual attitudes, and often they are confused because they seem to deal with the same subject matters: metaphysics, spirituality, and so on. Yet there is a fundamental dichotomy, so divisive, in fact, that mutual conversation is barely possible. The New Ager is comprehensible from the Traditional … Continue reading
Hermetic Meditation
Since Gornahoor has been so insistent on the necessity for spiritual practice, we will here provide an example of Hermetic meditation. This is based on suggestions from the writings of Valentin Tomberg, the foremost Hermetist of the 20th century. As he points out: There are no theories; there is only … Continue reading