This is authored by Havismat (Guido De Giorgio), from Volume 2 of Introduction to Magic. We see more of the paradoxical style of his writing. He reveals some personal details about his time in Tunisia and his experience with Sufis. See Short Note on Woman in East and West for … Continue reading
In which we review some prior posts on the western tradition and demonstrate the inner continuity from the Vedics through the Greeks to the Medievals. We also articulate the essence of idealism and the nature of the priest. We have several times pointed to the three great Indo-European civilizations: the … Continue reading
⇐ Part II This is the final segment on the role of the Warrior caste in a Traditional Society. Here we see that the point of war is to establish peace. The respective spheres of influence of the priests and warriors are made clear, although caste conflicts can still break … Continue reading
⇐ Part I Part III ⇒ It seems to me that Guido De Giorgio and Julius Evola agree on the role of the Warrior caste, with some fundamental disagreements. The first obviously is that Evola fails to understand the relationship of the warrior caste to the priestly class. The second … Continue reading
Part II ⇒ This is part I on the role of the Warrior caste in a Traditional Society. Here Guido De Giorgio describes the role of the warrior caste and its relationship to the priestly caste. He then relates that to the Great War and and the Lesser War. In … Continue reading
Dying before dying prepares us for death, feeling oneself a cadaver before becoming one, separating before detachment, sanctifying the corpse, purifying it, making it the marble temple of the Living God. The sanctification of the body is the sanctification of life and the sanctification of the soul that only the Holy calls Holy, i.e., God in us. The divine integration, the knowledge that God alone thinks, feels, and works in us, is the most certain means to attain freedom and serenity at the transition. Continue reading
For the greater part of men, death is a leap, a fearful leap into a bottomless abyss, a laceration, a shout, a falling without knowing how or where one falls, the tragic epilog of a sterile life, and a life without a reason. ~ Guido De Giorgio Continue reading
⇐ Part II This is the third and final installment from Guido De Giorgio‘s chapter on the priestly caste from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition]. He continues the discussion on faith. He points out that when the priesthood deteriorates, it gives rise to priesthood of solitary Ascetics. Although they … Continue reading
⇐ Part I Part III ⇒ This is the second installment from Guido De Giorgio‘s chapter on the priestly caste from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition]. He sees the process of the degeneration of the castes as beginning, not from the revolt of the Kshatriya, but rather from the … Continue reading
It is true that many vestiges of a forgotten past are coming out of the earth in our age, and perhaps not without reason. ~ Rene Guenon, Traditional Forms and Cosmic Cycles Guenon wrote that well before the discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library. The … Continue reading