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Category Archives: Tradition
Death and Final Judgment
You say you don’t believe in such superstitions. Does that really make it OK? Do you really mean that you can lust, hate, steal, or bring pain just because no one will ever find out? That is really sad. You would be better off believing the superstition than believing your own denials, lies, and self-deception. Continue reading
Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit
these are the gifts of the Holy Spirit:
- Wisdom (Sophia)
- Intelligence (intellectus, nous)
- Counsel
- Strength
- Knowledge (gnosis)
- Piety
- Fear of God
Political Platonism
The philosophical background of Guenon and his followers’ traditionalism is extremely close to the Platonic tradition … In other words, traditionalism can be taken as radical Platonism. ~ Alexander Dugin, Political Platonism. Dugin’s purpose seems to be to make Tradition academically palatable, by couching it in Platonic language. Obviously, as … Continue reading
Angels, Templars, and Joseph de Maistre
We must be ready for a profound event in the divine order, toward which we are marching with an accelerated speed that must strike all observers. Terrible oracles already announce that the time has come. Continue reading
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Christian teaching is that we are commanded to love, so a dog is incapable of love. On the face of it, that sounds quite odd, since we consider love to be passive not active; e.g., one “falls in love”. Everyone assumes he knows what love is, but it is actually not so easy to understand. Even when understood, it is difficult to love, and the spiritual authorities have not been all that helpful. Continue reading
The Greater Mysteries
Omnipotence does not mean power to do absurdities. The compulsion of another’s will is such an absurdity, and therefore no real omnipotence could force such a compulsion. Continue reading
Angels and Demons
I have seen that every man receives at his birth two spirits, one good, the other evil. The good one is heavenly by nature and belongs to the lowest hierarchy; the evil one is not a devil, not yet in torments, though deprived of the vision of God. ~ Anne Catherine Emmerich Continue reading
Pet Peeves
The Universe was created by a sacrifice of God. Continue reading