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Shadows and Reflections: The Lunar Race
2015-06-07
The task of human intelligence is to liberate itself from the magical enchantment which separates it from spontaneous wisdom … to arrive at intuition. Continue reading →
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The Demetrian Race
2015-06-07
The other “spiritual races” of the cycle, to which our contemporaries belong, have as their premise a division and a separation of the two elements of “spirituality” and “virility”, and also “transcendence”…
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If You Like, Esoteric Christianity
2013-06-07
Tomberg criticizes Gurdjieff’s aims in Meditations on the Tarot as being without grace, and aimed at building a resurrection body apart from Initiation-from-above, although he freely admits the possibility of doing…
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The Past as Death and Life
2012-06-07
This is the second section of Guido de Giorgio‘s essay The Instant and Eternity. Here de Giorgio compares modern and traditional man. He brings in many themes previously covered here: the continuity…
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Hermetic Sciences: Astrology
2011-06-07
The inner meaning of astrology. Please click to continue ⇒
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The Beautiful Losers of History

Posted on 2021-04-18 by Cologero

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited. Continue reading →

Amor Fati and the Heroic Life

Posted on 2020-08-07 by Cologero

My formula for the greatness of man is amor fati — to change nothing, neither before nor after, throughout all eternity. Not only to bear Necessity, and still less to hide it — all idealism is a lie in the face of Necessity — but to love it. ~ Friedrich … Continue reading →

When the Angels Disappear

Posted on 2018-05-24 by Cologero

What a man is ultimately depends on his own consciousness. Therefore, attempts to alter the material conditions of life, e.g., through legal means, so-called “safe spaces”, etc., will have limited effect. Continue reading →

Nietzsche and life-affirming religion

Posted on 2010-02-19 by Cologero

Nietzsche has done as much as anyone in undermining the Traditional spiritual roots of Western man in his division of religion into life-denying as exemplified in Christianity and life-affirming as exemplified in Paganism. The destruction of Christianity has not led to a life-affirming paganism, but rather to a paganism that … Continue reading →

Evola on Will

Posted on 2009-08-13 by Cologero

In The Individual and the Becoming of the World, Evola devotes himself to the question of the Will. While acknowledging the influence of Nietzsche on his thought, Evola nevertheless rejects Nietzsche’s naturalism and reintroduces the supernatural element. He does this by bringing back Schopenhauer’s second foundation of the world, the … Continue reading →

Schopenhauer on the Will

Posted on 2009-08-11 by Cologero

Schopenhauer recognized that space, time, and causality are required for any experience and understanding of the natural world, or the world of phenomena. Knowledge, then, consists in understanding the sufficient reason for things, that is, the causal relationships between them. He also recognized, following Kant, that the phenomenal world is … Continue reading →

The Art of Controversy

Posted on 2009-08-09 by Cologero

Controversy is often of mutual advantage, in order to correct one’s thoughts and awaken new views. But in learning and in mental power both disputants must be tolerably equal. Continue reading →

Schopenhauer on Christianity

Posted on 2009-08-06 by Cologero

The innermost kernel and spirit of Christianity is identical with that of Brahmanism and Buddhism. 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