Plato famously claimed the knowing is remembering. In particular, we have forgotten the world of essences, that is, the ideas in the mind of God; Hence, knowing an essence is just a recall of that which was forgotten. A fortiori, knowledge of the Self, our essence, and our destiny must also be a form of remembering. But memory of the forms takes place in stages. We understand more as we rise up through the states of being. 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
Man alone is capable of communion with God. For to man alone among the living creatures does God speak: at night through dreams, by day through the intellect. And He uses every means to foretell and prefigure the future blessings that will be given to those worthy of Him. ~ … Continue reading
And it will come to pass after these things that I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams and your young men shall see visions. (Joel 2:28) Mundus Imaginalis Elijah’s Dream The visionary Emmanuel Swedenborg … Continue reading
Mejnour was able to know and Zanoni able to love. Few men can do both. Most men can do neither. Continue reading
The Person exists in multiple states of being, of which the human state is but one of them. Rene Guenon explains it like this: almost everything that is said theologically of the angels can also be said metaphysically of the higher states of the being. Continue reading
Quaternity That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. ~ … Continue reading
The present age must come to terms drastically with the facts as they are, with the absolute opposition that is not only tearing the world asunder politically but has planted a schism in the human heart. We need to find our way back to the original, living spirit which, because of its ambivalence, is also a mediator and uniter of opposites, an idea that preoccupied the alchemists for many centuries. ~ C G Jung, Aion Continue reading
What is a worse punishment than always to will what will never be and to be constantly opposing what will always be? The soul will never have what it wants and will endure forever what it does not want. Continue reading
Saint Augustine describes a path that leads the soul from “its vivifying, perceptive, rational and contemplative powers that enable it to move close to God”. Continue reading