It is true that many vestiges of a forgotten past are coming out of the earth in our age, and perhaps not without reason. ~ Rene Guenon, Traditional Forms and Cosmic Cycles Guenon wrote that well before the discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library. The … Continue reading
Category Archives: Dante
Origin of Revolution
Revolution is the overthrow of established order, resulting in a state of disorder. Thus, there can be no such thing as a “conservative revolution” but rather what is required, as Joseph de Maistre famously claimed, is “the opposite of a revolution“. To understand what Order is in the first place, … Continue reading
Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition (4)
The purely exterior literary merits that common men [volgo], the profanum vulgus [unholy rabble], admire in Dante have no importance and would nullify the value of the Comedy in the very eyes of Dante and of those who can and know how to understand the purpose for which the poem … Continue reading
Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition (3)
It is not easy to express this succession and fusion that must not be considered historically but on a plane where the symbolic values remain such even if unknown or misunderstood until a new light suddenly illuminates them and reveals them. For the two traditions which we discussing, Rome is … Continue reading
Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition (2)
If Virgil represents the ancient tradition and Beatrice the new tradition and if, at the threshold of the Terrestrial Paradise, Virgil disappears before Beatrice, Beatrice also disappears when the divine mystery is grasped by Dante in its immediate realization and what then remains, above and beyond the two traditions unified … Continue reading
Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition
From La Tradizione Romana by Guido De Giorgio. The traditional gold vein of Rome in the living unity of the two forms supplementing each other in a perfect match and equilibrium, is found again in all its wholeness in Dante who was the first to reveal the mystery of Romanity. … Continue reading