English esoteric translation of Petrarch’s Sonnet 164. Continue reading
Hidden Meanings in Texts
There are four levels of meaning in an esoteric text: Literal, Allegorical, Moral, Anagogical. How to unravel the true meaning. Continue reading
Intergalactic Columbus Day
Things seem to be going well until they reach their teenage years. They having been unknowably taking a daily drug that reduces libido and helps with anger management. A couple of the boys discover the purpose of the drug, which they then stop taking; by mimicry, they all stop taking the daily dose. This decision brings violence and sexual desire into the ship for the first time. Continue reading
Buridan’s Donkey
A free choice is one made by the conscious subject or person. The free person knows the good and acts on it. That is our real and true nature. Freedom, therefore, is to act in accordance with our true nature. Continue reading
Knights of Light
Without that guiding light, a knight stumbles in the darkness or wanders aimlessly like a lion on the savannah. Ahriman is the supreme bureaucrat, who strives to organize everything to keep it in its place, to subdue it, to confine it to logic. Artificial intelligence is his dream and our nightmare. Continue reading
The Foundation of Rome
Everything in Rome comes from a sacred, supernal sense of life: the foundation of the city is a constructive act that moves from an order of purely spiritual necessity: it is the result of a religious ideal harmony constituted among a group of men, warriors and priests, who seek to establish a new unity, a creative force, and intend primarily to locate the sanctuary of common worship in the city. Continue reading
Homunculi and Virtual People
The artificial creation of human-like life has been a pre-occupation: from the golem of Hebrew folklore, to the homunculus of the alchemists, Frankenstein’s monster, and more recently, the androids and robots of science fiction. Continue reading
On Being a Person
What is virtual is not our reality within the Principle, but only the awareness we may have of it as manifested beings, which is obviously something quite different; and it is only through metaphysical realization that this awareness of our true being, which is beyond and above all becoming can become effective, that is actualized in the awareness Continue reading
Hunting Iguanas
Some say iguanas are a myth. Others dismiss them as a conspiracy theory. A few know the truth. Continue reading
Journey to the Center of the Mind
The spiritual adepts were inner-world adventurers of the highest daring, the Tibetan equivalent of our astronauts—I think it is worth coining the term ‘psychonaut’ to describe them. They personally voyaged to the furthest frontiers of that universe which their society deemed vital to explore: the inner frontiers of consciousness itself, … Continue reading