In a continual effort to show what well-bred men used to think was normal and healthy, I will share the thoughts of a 19th century Frenchman who was still attached to that tradition. Unlike those who think they discovered sliced bread for the first time a few weeks ago, we … Continue reading
Category Archives: Spirituality
Knowing the Nature of Things
Adam’s genius shows itself in the fact that he gave names to the animals. Saint Augustine rated it as an act of the highest wisdom and Pythagoras recognized that the wisest man was the one who first gave names to things. In the mentality of traditional man, the name indicates the nature of a thing, and the man who knows the name of a thing fundamentally knows its nature or essence. Continue reading
The Causal State of Deep Sleep
There is a necessity of suffering the trouble of a Troop of Thoughts, importune Imaginations, and the impetuosities of natural Notions, not only, of the Soul through the dryness and disunion it hath, but of the Body also, occasioned by the want of submission to the Spirit, which it ought to have. Continue reading
Vichara and Alchemical Marriage
When we try to shut out all the whims and fancies of our restless mind, and to concentrate on the one chosen for a definite purpose, the mind fights desperately in order to resist control. Continue reading
The Soul after Death: Angels
Our experience of angels is through our intellect, since they are themselves pure intellect. That is, they will come as thoughts, or a constellation of ideas, an inspiration, or a temptation. Continue reading
The Soul after Death: Psychic Experience
It frequently happens that a soul on the path of death recognizes those with whom it is to share the same eternal dwelling for equal blame or reward. Continue reading
The Soul after Death
Thoughts have a temporal component, since we think one thought after another, which can all be related sequentially. However, there is no “where”; i.e., one thought is not to the left of another, or across from it, etc. Yet, images in a dream do have a spatial aspect; in the dream, we “go places”, there is different scenery for different places, and so on. Furthermore, since we “see” things, that brings up the question of a “body”; do the figures in a dream have an “astral body” that we then “see”? Continue reading
Living the Dream
Your life is what remains after you die and that life is eternal. That, then, is the life you are creating and there can be no doubt about it. Truth resides in the interior of man, hence restoration must begin in the interior. Therefore, changing the persons, places, conditions, and events of our outer life will amount to nothing if we don’t first address the disorder in our inner life. Continue reading
Thought Power
If you have no courage to face the results of your thinking, to swallow the conclusions of your thinking, whatever they may mean to you personally, you should never take the trouble to philosophise. Continue reading
Sign of the Times
We must be ready for an immense event in the divine order which we are travelling towards with an accelerated speed that must astound all those who watch. Awesome oracles have already pronounced that the time is now. Continue reading