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
Unconscious man is discontinuous and ununified. The life of the conscious man is integral and he always remains himself. The more he suffused with the light of truth, the close he comes to the Absolute I. Continue reading
Let us forget earth, let us realize heaven; let us share our thoughts, our joys, our griefs, our aspirations, our tears, so that in this unfleshly communion of minds and souls there may be in our eyes pride, in our heart-throbs purity, in our speech chastity, in our consciences calm. Continue reading
Ignorance, malice, and concupiscence are not coincidentally three effects of the Fall. To the extent that these three qualities dominate consciousness, the transcendental desires fade away from awareness. Continue reading
If we see further than they, it is not in virtue of our stronger sight, but because we are lifted up by them and carried to great height. We are dwarfs carried on the shoulders of giants. ~ Bernard of Chartres Continue reading
Impassibility was one of the preternatural gifts before the Fall. If the aim of the spiritual life is theosis, to become more like God, then we need to recover the quality of impassibility that was lost. Continue reading
The True Will, on the other hand, means that a person is acting according to his real, unfallen nature. This is the purified will, because it will only one thing. In this case, what one believed through custom, habit, conditioning, and so on, no longer suffices. Such a person chooses his beliefs because he wills them. Continue reading
A religious factor is necessary as the background for a true heroic conception of life that must be essential for our political alignment. It is necessary to feel in oneself the evidence that there is a higher life beyond this terrestrial life, because only those who feel this way possess … Continue reading
The Knight and the Lady will meet each other once in their lives, but will seldom recognize each other, because they are not ready or have not advanced enough. Sometimes they are given a second chance and that must be obeyed. Continue reading
The end result of individuation is the birth of a Self, or Real I, beyond the conscious Ego. The Self is not scientific because it can never be an object of thought. It is noumenal and beyond the psyche. Continue reading