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Advent Meditation Week 1
2022-11-25
Just as we celebrate and anticipate the Incarnation of the Logos on the material plane, so, too, we want to prepare for the analogous birth within the human soul. Continue reading →
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Psychic Distortion
2018-11-25
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…
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Principle VI: Rights and Laws (Clarifications)
2012-11-25
From Chapter II, “Principles”, Le Droit et la Loi, of Mes Idées Politique, by Charles Maurras. This is part two of two. Clarifications on the Nature of Law According to a venerable…
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The Nous
2011-11-25
Basil the Great on the Nous. Nevertheless, no one would allege the heaven to be invisible because of what is unknown; it would be said to be visible on account of our…
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Esoterism and Christian Mysticism

Posted on 2013-05-19 by Aeneas

This essay was originally published by EA, or Julius Evola, under the title “Esoterismo e Mistica Cristiana” from the third volume of Introduzione alla Magia. Obviously, Evola was quite interested in the topic since the essay runs to 20 pages and he was quite familiar with the secondary literature. The … Continue reading →

Yangming’s Doctrine of Awakening

Posted on 2013-05-16 by Avery Morrow

It was pointed out in a discussion here that Valentin Tomberg wrote the following on “exteriorization”, summarizing the respective attitudes of Buddha and Christ to the vision of a damaged world: The Buddha saw the true nature of the world and that it was sick. Considering it incurable he instituted … Continue reading →

The Idea of the World in the East (II)

Posted on 2013-04-29 by Cologero

This review by Julius Evola of “The Science of Peace” and “The Science of the Sacred Word” by Bhagavan Das originally appeared in Bilychnis, volume XXVI, September, 1925. This is part two of two parts. The third part will deal with the idea of the world in the West. Pratyagatma … Continue reading →

The Idea of the World in the East

Posted on 2013-04-28 by Cologero

This very early review by Julius Evola of “The Science of Peace” and “The Science of the Sacred Word” originally appeared in Bilychnis, volume XXVI, September, 1925. This is part one of two parts. The third part will deal with the idea of the world in the West. NOTE: This … Continue reading →

Involution and Evolution

Posted on 2013-04-23 by Cologero

Negative Capability is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Continue reading →

The Esoteric Origin of the Species (III)

Posted on 2013-04-21 by Aeneas

This is the conclusion of essay originally which appeared in the Introduction to Magic, volume 3. The Diagram discussed is by Edgar Dacqué. He was a German paleontologist who was a devout Lutheran, a Theosophist, and was involved with the OTO. In this conclusion, Avro explains how man arises from … Continue reading →

The Esoteric Origin of the Species (II)

Posted on 2013-04-17 by Aeneas

This essay originally appeared in the Introduction to Magic, volume 3. This is the second of multiple parts. It was published under the name “Avro”, which I believe to be Julius Evola. ⇐ Part 1 Part 3 ⇒ Moving from primitive man to the anthropoid and the ape, and presuming the … Continue reading →

The Esoteric Origin of the Species

Posted on 2013-04-14 by Aeneas

This essay originally appeared in the Introduction to Magic, volume 3. This is the first of multiple parts. It was published under the name “Avro”, which I believe to be Julius Evola. Part 2 ⇒ The reader will not fail to notice that in one particular point among others, the … Continue reading →

The Fire of Creation

Posted on 2013-04-10 by Cologero

Today we are truly at the dawn of the coming of the third person in the dialectic of the divine; the direction of creative activity in motion, of the universe in which dynamis or power is the fundamental note, and the immanent presence of the “cosmic Fire” is characteristic of this. Continue reading →

Review of the Meaning of History

Posted on 2013-04-03 by Aeneas

Man, in order to feel himself free and individual, will overcome isolation and egoism, and will return to an organic, living, religious connection with the totality, realizing the mystical meaning of history as the reciprocal self-revelation and self-generation of man to God. Continue reading →

Some men return to their past, so that new forces may arise for the reconquest ~ J. Evola
Par l'espace, l'univers me comprend et m'engloutit comme un point ; par la penseé, je le comprends.~ Pascal
A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace. ~ Confucius
Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi: in interiore hominis habitat veritas. ~ St. Augustine
A man of talent is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot hit, but the man of genius is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot see. ~ Schopenhauer
To live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often. ~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
I believe in being free, acquiring knowledge, and telling the truth. ~ H. L. Mencken
On se lasse de penser, et même d'agir; jamais on ne se lasse d'aimer. ~ Auguste Comte
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson
The divine sleeps in the rock, breathes in the plant, dreams in the animal, and wakes in man. ~ old Nordic adage
The strong man strikes only when it is absolutely necessary, and then nothing stops him. ~ Vilfredo Pareto
Pour l’homme de droite, être libre ne consiste pas à faire ce que l’on veut, mais à faire ce qui est conforme à l’ordre naturel voulu par Dieu.
Very few battles are lost physically. Battles are lost almost always morally; the real victor like the real loser is the one who believes he is. ~ Joseph de Maistre