Past WordPress has released a statistical summary for Gornahoor in 2012, for those interested in taking a look. 170,000 page views are not very many in the grand scheme of things, yet for a blog that has no real identity, it is probably significant. The trend has been gradually increasing, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Musings
Evil, Disorder, and Redemption
When reading the parable of the Good Samaritan, modern man, full of pride and vanity, puts himself in the place of the Samaritan. The Fathers, on the other hand, saw man as the stranger beset upon by thieves. Young men today are beaten down, robbed of their heritage, and left to spiritual death. Where is their Samaritan? Continue reading
November Musings
The past is considered to have been inhabited by ignorant, superstitious, stupid, intolerant, and evil men. The corollary is that men of today have “evolved”, apparently through no effort of their own. Hence, they cannot possibly be ignorant, superstitious, stupid, intolerant, or evil, no matter what they say, do, or think. Continue reading
Day of the Dead and Signs of Life
Satan always makes his snares alluring and appealing. However, being such a trickster, he always leaves his calling card behind: a big turd right in the middle. Men carefully walk around it to “get to the good stuff”. Continue reading
Halloween Quiz
While you are waiting for your candy, test your knowledge of Tradition: Turn your monitor upside down to see answers.
Chaos in Mathematics
These are some reflections on what chaos means in the context of mathematics and physics. Chaos must be understood as the absence, or privation, of order, not as the opposite of order in any active sense. Continue reading
The Anti-Christ & the Liberal-Democratic Order
In an interesting turn of phrase, St. Paul indicates in Thessalonians 2 that the Anti-Christ will come, not as an idol, but as an iconoclast: “He who opposes and exalts himself against everything that is called God and religion, just as he will sit in the Temple of God, as … Continue reading
Man, Woman, and Self
For Adam, the Self is dead, represented by the rib since the bones are the last to decay. That rib is vivified by Eve, who appears therefore as the exteriorization of his own Self. She is almost his identical twin, genetically the same apart from her having two X chromosomes, his “reciprocal”. Hence, she is the perfect woman for him. In knowing Eve, Adam is knowing himself. Continue reading
The Scent of a Woman
she brought the whole range of a practised feminine charm into play, from the breasts deliberately displayed to the male, to the discreet, almost telepathic scent given off by her skin which she intensified by occasionally lifting her arm to send a supplementary blast from the armpit. Continue reading
The Evil Eye
It is nice to know that once upon a time in Europe, Emperors, Kings, Knights, Templars, Hermetists, Saints, Mystics, Troubadours and so much more were abounding. Now we know there were also Sorcerers and probably there still are. Continue reading