It will be useful to provide more concrete examples illustrating the difference between the consciousness formed by persuasion and that formed by rhetoric, as described by Carlo Michelstaedter. The End of Rhetoric There is an intellectual lust just as surely as there is sexual lust. Men get excited about hearing … Continue reading
Category Archives: Musings
Astray in the Human Jungle
Turn every negativity to your profit. ~ St John Climacus Courtly love can be effective only if it is based on a Gnosis which is lived, for only a lived Gnosis, on that has been acquired through experience and has gone down into the heart—one joined with Hope that is … Continue reading
The Pearl Tiara
A pearl tiara has a design and a structure. The pearls are arranged in a certain way, usually by size. It is built around precious metals and may include other gems. Although the quality of each individual pearl is important, the piece of jewelry achieves its beauty in its totality, not from any pearl in particular. Continue reading
Interview with Aphrodite
In the aphroditic race, tellurism, i.e., the adherence to terrestriality, assumes the forms of an extreme refinement of material existence, and not seldom goes on to promote an opulent development of everything that is pomp and luxury in the outer life, therefore also of the world of arts and aesthetic sentiment. Continue reading
Meditation on the Incarnation
The Logos raised the human up to God, once and for all. Christ, as the second Adam, restored the possibility of the Primordial state to man. Continue reading
The Glass Bead Game
The individuality descends consciously and of his own free will to birth, into an environment where he is wanted and awaited … Incarnation-birth presupposes conscious agreement between the will of the individuality above and the receiving will below. Continue reading
Endgame
When one begins to experience the full effect of the “Times” we live in, it becomes obvious that there are a multitude of factors at work. Cologero has pointed out the increasing complexity and speed of events in the Kali Yuga. Although at first and superficial glance this would strike … Continue reading
The Ventriloquist and the Dummy
Although you must never put the Lord, thy God, to the test, you should always test Fortuna. Continue reading
Lessons Learned
Appeals to the Intellect are much rarer, and that is necessarily so. Few can attain the equanimity of Aristotle’s philosopher. The philosopher, meant in the ancient sense as a way of life, would want to see into the nature of things and passions can only work against this. Continue reading
Identity and Sameness
Thought shapes behaviour so incorrect beliefs will lead to inappropriate actions. Even if it takes several generations, all the ramifications of a germinal idea will eventually try to manifest in the order of mixed things. Although the rare geniuses of a new system of thought understand what they are doing, their immediate followers typically do not. Continue reading