Gewusst, Erkannt, Geahndet – Schelling What is now called the Christian religion already existed among the ancients, and was not lacking at the very beginnings of the human race. When Christ appeared in the flesh, the true religion already in existence received the name of Christian. ~ Augustine of Hippo … Continue reading
Category Archives: Civilization
Europe’s Spirit in the North
Gornahoor has deliberately underscored the “Russian connection” for traditionalism in the previous century (and before). As if to emphasize such a connection explicity “Romane”, the reception of Evola via Samizdat circles in the Soviet era demonstrates the resonance virtually all of his ideas had with the ideas of those in … Continue reading
Exit the Cave
Socrates asks: “How can you determine whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake Continue reading
The End of Thinking
The thinkers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were not compelled to pay such disproportionate attention to the opposition of the uneducated. Continue reading
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
Only a god can save us
Evola consistently rejects both the claims of faith and of science to explain the origins of civilization. Instead, Evola makes note of “extra-scientific intuitions” and his methodology is not the study of genetics, or even of arechology, but rather “very laborious philological, anthropo-geological, mythological, and symbolic methods”. In our post-Christian … Continue reading