Just as eternal life is seeing God,
longing for nothing greater, no longer longing,
so I’m made happy, my lady, by seeing you
in this brief and fragile life of mine. Continue reading
Category Archives: Art
Eternal Life is Seeing God
Geist Magazine is Out
The first edition of our literature and art magazine, “Geist”, is just out, and you can read it for free. A multilingual magazine with texts in English and German, Portuguese, French and Italian translated to English, and artworks by several international artists. Poems, short stories, photographs, paintings and illustrations — it’s all there. Continue reading
Kerouac and the Faustian West
The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint. ~ Charles Péguy Love, Work, and Suffer ~ Motto of the Kerouac family (Rivista Araldica) Am actually not “beat” but strange solitary crazy Catholic mystic ~ … Continue reading
Pulp Fiction
There are few people who know the full force of the different movements of the heart. The vast majority of men are only sensitive to five or six passions, in the circle of which their lives are passed and which define the boundaries of their imaginations. Take away love and … Continue reading
Sex and Violence
we are always guided by Augustine’s maxim that the truth lies in the interiority of man. This we shall do by following our earlier analysis of the various faculties of the soul. The forces of thymos and epithymia (or eros) channeled toward higher values, and are dominated by the rational or intellectual soul. Hence, from thymos he experiences the energy or force to strive for transcendence. Epithymia acts as the attractive force. Continue reading
Creativity, Nonduality, Inspiration
You hear — you do not seek; you take — and do not ask who gives: a thought suddenly flashes up like lightning, it comes as a necessity, without hesitation — I have never had any choice in the matter. There is an ecstasy so great that the immense strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears during which one does not know whether one is coming or going. ~ Nietzsche Continue reading
Art and Illusion in Meyrink
So the psychic appearances that play such a prominent part in his books are not real in themselves, but illusions whose reality comes from the formless realm. Continue reading
Kidz, Kulcha, Kreativity
A few years ago, I watched a contrived controversy on a cable news channel. An exclusive and expensive liberal arts college in the suburbs of Los Angeles was giving students access to time on the campus cable TV channel. Not surprisingly, one group decided to produce pornography. Appearing on the … Continue reading
Transmutation: A Novel
A frequent visitor to Gornahoor, Lydia Bisanti, asked me to make her novel Transmutation: A novel about Eternal Love available in the Gornahoor library. This is how she describes herself: Lydia Bisanti’s interest in metaphysics started in the seventies when she discovered the writings of Rene Guenon, a French metaphysician … Continue reading
The American
Jack, the American, is a maker of custom high-performance weapons used in assassinations. When an assignment goes awry in Sweden, he runs off to Italy and secludes himself in the town. His chief gives him one last job, after which Jack plans to retire. Continue reading