Today with difficulty, if not exceptionally in some close to dangerous existential crises, the potentiality of Christianity at its beginnings as that “tragic doctrine of salvation” can be re-actualized. The problem is not set and we even say without reticence that if anyone who has known, for some time, nothing … Continue reading
Category Archives: Catholicism
The Meaning of Christmas
At this time of year, many voices arise to tell us the “true” meaning of Christmas. On the one hand, we are told that it is a reminder to be “nice” to one another. Then there are the “Marthas” of the world who tell us to do less “shopping”, apparently … Continue reading
Saint Joseph de Maistre
On All Saint’s Day, we recall the guiding voices behind Gornahoor, most prominently: Julius Evola, Rene Guenon, Vladimir Solovyov, Valentin Tomberg, August Comte, Donoso Cortes. Then of course, there is our patron saint, Joseph de Maistre. Joseph de Maistre was one of those well-born men of sound mind that Evola … Continue reading
Violence and Revolution
The cause of all wars and revolutions — in a word, of all violence — is always the same: the negation of hierarchy. ~ Valentin Tomberg What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. ~ Joseph de Maistre While the world … Continue reading
The Thinking of Sound and Well-Born Persons
In his self-defense, Evola denied he was a Fascist and insisted that he thought the same as well-bred men with sound minds thought prior to the French Revolution. This recording by Solange Hertz remarkably illustrates how such men thought and viewed the world. She identifies the “Three Plagues” of the … Continue reading
Action and Contemplation in Dante’s Divine Comedy
Titus Burckhardt, in his essay “Because Dante Was Right,” argues that one of the main themes of the Commedia is “the reciprocal relationship between knowledge and will.” Knowledge of the eternal truths is potentially present in the human spirit or intellect, but its unfolding is directly conditioned by the will, … Continue reading
The Spirit of Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre was an Hermetist (in the school of Martines de Pasqually and Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin), Traditionalist, Reactionary, European, and a source of the Russian Idea. In his Self-Defense, Julius Evola includes Maistre among those well-bred men holding sane and normal views common prior to the French Revolution. In … Continue reading
The Way Back
Il cattolicismo è veramente la religion più perfetta, come la filosofia europea moderna è la più perfetta filosofia: sono insieme le più alte creazioni dello spirit ariano. (Catholicism is truly the most perfect religion, just as modern European philosophy is the most perfect philosophy: together, they are the highest creations … Continue reading
All Things were restored to Order
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 Misconception of Egalitarianism
Every doctrine is true in what it asserts but false in, or because of, what it excludes. ~ Leibniz I’ve been looking at some writings from the “right”, or “tradition”, or “conservatism” of various persuasions and I see that there many misconceptions, misunderstandings, and half-truths (i.e., wrong in what they … Continue reading