To find the perfect woman, you yourself would have to be perfect. The Cabbala explains that all pre-existing souls have a male and female part, that separate at birth. Only if the human being is pure and his deeds are pleasing to God, will the union fall to his lot which he possessed before birth. Continue reading
Happy wife, happy life. ~ old wives’ tale The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want? ~ Sigmund Freud On se lasse de penser, … Continue reading
The Sons and Daughters of Europe, the spiritual Knights of the Holy Roman Empire, have been bequeathed the greatest of spiritual and intellectual gifts: Platonic philosophy and the Catholic religion. One to feed the mind, the other, the heart. Continue reading
If you can only understand one section, you are a hedgehog. Otherwise, you might be a fox. Continue reading
There are two belief systems. The modern view is that all will be known in the indefinite future. The traditional view is that all important knowledge has been given to us already, but has been forgotten. Continue reading
Hope has two parts:
The expectation distinguishes Hope from wishful thinking or blind faith. Continue reading
Cornix cornici oculos non effodiet (A crow doesn’t rip out the eyes of another crow) The fullness of existence, life’s true richness, does not consist solely in health and happiness but in an ever-expanding range of joy and sorrow; and the broader the range, the richer life becomes. ~ Valentin … Continue reading
How to be a man of Tradition in the modern world. Just a few very difficult steps. Continue reading
There is an unfortunate misuse of intelligence. The promise of near universal education should have led to the rule of the best, a truly meritocratic state. Instead, this new elite was trained to despise the very people over whom, presumably, they were educated to rule. Continue reading
A farmer’s product might be wheat; a builder’s, a house; and so on. But for the intellectual class — e.g., journalists, lawyers, politicians — their very product is words. That is why, in the news media, concrete acts matter less than what people say, and beliefs are more important than truth. Hence, the discussion is primarily about who said what, what terms were used, how quickly did he say it, and the like. This class is entirely nominalist and has taken the place vacated by an ineffectual spiritual caste. Continue reading