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Liber esse, scientiam acquirere, veritatem loqui

Civilizations of Space and Civilizations of Time
2019-08-25
The remaining traces, often still only in stone, of some of the great civilizations of the origins often contain a rarely noticed meaning. In the face of what remains of the most…
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Primer on Tradition and its Future
2016-08-25
The ignorant are humble since they know that they do not know. The intelligent are humble because they understand how difficult it is to know something. But the half-smart are so absolutely…
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Material Girls and Spiritual Tourists
2015-08-25
I do not tell you to change your life starting tomorrow because of what I have told you. You will not be able to. The characters described below will not be able…
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Finding Agarttha
2010-08-25
In King of the World, Guenon documents Christianity’s loss of its primordial Tradition as the gradual break of the link to its spiritual centre. This break occurred in stages following the period…
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The Gornahoor Project
2010-08-25
Based on some exchanges lately, we feel the need to make clear the purpose of the Gornahoor Project. There is one distinction, and one distinction only: that between Tradition and anti-Tradition. Elaborating…
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Philokalia and the Recovery of Tradition

Posted on 2010-05-25 by Cologero

The Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. (Matthew 11:12) There is a new edition of Volume I of the Philokalia translated by Constantine Cavarnos and published by the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Philokalia means “Love of the Beautiful” (not “beautiful things”) … Continue reading →

The Good Shepherd

Posted on 2010-04-18 by Cologero

The Gospel for the Second Sunday after Easter is John 10:11-15, the parable of the Good Shepherd. In this passage, Jesus compares himself to the Good Shepherd who watches over his sheep and would give his life for them. The Shepherd is clearly the Logos, the Word made flesh. The … Continue reading →

All Things were restored to Order

Posted on 2010-04-02 by Cologero

Through the cross all who conquer gain victory; all who combat, strength; all who seek it, mercy; the unprotected, protection; those who are sad, joy; and consolation, all who weep. Continue reading →

The issue with Christianity

Posted on 2010-02-26 by Cologero

I had a different topic in mind, but I decided to address this thoughtful comment first: I think the issue some take with Christianity lies in the third of your criteria. The Christian religion seems to have been the fountainhead of a large number of subversive movements – though even … Continue reading →

Nietzsche and life-affirming religion

Posted on 2010-02-19 by Cologero

Nietzsche has done as much as anyone in undermining the Traditional spiritual roots of Western man in his division of religion into life-denying as exemplified in Christianity and life-affirming as exemplified in Paganism. The destruction of Christianity has not led to a life-affirming paganism, but rather to a paganism that … Continue reading →

Schopenhauer on Christianity

Posted on 2009-08-06 by Cologero

The innermost kernel and spirit of Christianity is identical with that of Brahmanism and Buddhism. Continue reading →

Some men return to their past, so that new forces may arise for the reconquest ~ J. Evola
Par l'espace, l'univers me comprend et m'engloutit comme un point ; par la penseé, je le comprends.~ Pascal
A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace. ~ Confucius
Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi: in interiore hominis habitat veritas. ~ St. Augustine
A man of talent is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot hit, but the man of genius is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot see. ~ Schopenhauer
To live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often. ~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
I believe in being free, acquiring knowledge, and telling the truth. ~ H. L. Mencken
On se lasse de penser, et même d'agir; jamais on ne se lasse d'aimer. ~ Auguste Comte
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson
The divine sleeps in the rock, breathes in the plant, dreams in the animal, and wakes in man. ~ old Nordic adage
The strong man strikes only when it is absolutely necessary, and then nothing stops him. ~ Vilfredo Pareto
Pour l’homme de droite, être libre ne consiste pas à faire ce que l’on veut, mais à faire ce qui est conforme à l’ordre naturel voulu par Dieu.
Very few battles are lost physically. Battles are lost almost always morally; the real victor like the real loser is the one who believes he is. ~ Joseph de Maistre