The fact is that people too often tend to think that if a symbolical meaning is admitted, the literal or historical sense must be rejected; such a view can only result from unawareness of the law of correspondence which is the very foundation of all symbolism. … For this reason the laws of a lower domain can always be taken to symbolize realities of a higher order. Continue reading
Tradition describes the world of Being, essences, the necessary, which alone is fully real. The rest can only see the world of Becoming, the accidental, the contingent. It is imperative to shift one’s perspective. Continue reading
I’ve been cleaning up paperwork. I stumbled across some personal musings that go back decades. The topics then are similar to those of today, although the approach was quite different. I also found some class notes for a discussion group on Oriental Metaphysics by Rene Guenon. They date back to … Continue reading
these doctrines are reserved for a relatively restricted and closed elite. This was also the case in the West in the Middle Ages. Continue reading
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
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
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
For everything the understanding can grasp, and everything desire demands, is not God. Where understanding and desire have an end, there it is dark, there does God shine. Continue reading
We think that if a Western tradition could be rebuilt it would be bound to take on a religious form in the strictest sense of this word, and that this form could only be Christian; for on the one hand the other possible forms have been too long foreign to … Continue reading
Vintila Horia: There are several keys to Dante. Rene Guenon provides us the key of esoterism, which would make the “Divine Comedy” the poem par excellence from the standpoint of traditional studies. Continue reading