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In old Europe human life received its ideal content from the Catholic faith, on the one hand, and from knightly feudalism on the other ~ Vladimir Solovyov.
Vladimir Solovyov claims that there is a three stage process of development.
- In the first stage, the levels exist in an undifferentiated form. The levels exist virtually, not actually.
- In the second stage, the lower levels manifest independently of the higher one and seek to exist independently. Furthermore, to assert its independence, each area rejects the corresponding areas on its own level.
- In the third stage, the highest level separates itself, gaining its freedom and thus bringing about the possibility of a new unity. Since none of the lower levels can actually achieve exclusive domination, they are forced to seek a higher center outside themselves. This must involve the free, conscious subordination of the lower levels to the higher as their true centre.
These stages will be discussed in terms of the Cosmic Cycle as well as specific historical manifestations. For reference, the following chart is included.
| Sphere of Creation | Sphere of Knowledge | Sphere of Praxis | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subjective Basis | Feeling | Thinking | Willing |
| Objective Principle | Beauty | Truth | Good |
| Absolute Level | Mysticism | Theology | Spiritual Society |
| Formal Level | Fine art | Philosophy | Political Society |
| Material Level | Technical Art | Science | Economic Society |
| Integration | Theurgy | Theosophy | Theocracy |
Cosmic Cycle
From the Traditional perspective, this development is understood this way.
- In the Primordial Golden Age, there is a true unity and everything is ordered to the level of the Absolute. There is no caste distinction since everyone has this understanding.
- The next stage encompasses the degeneration of castes in a process of decline. The centre moves from the Absolute, to the formal, to the material following the successive revolts of the lower castes. Eventually, the material world is the main focus. However, this degeneration cannot continue unabated.
- In the ascending phase of the Kali Yuga, there is the possibility for some men to come to a higher awareness and adopt the higher viewpoint, not as a matter of birth, but rather as a conscious and free choice. This will lead up to a new Golden Age.
Historical Manifestation
Solovyov does not explicitly mention the law of cosmic cycles, though he had to have known of them. However, he helpfully gives several examples of the Law of Development.
Ancient City
In the Ancient City, the spheres and levels were not differentiated. The family and clan were the first forms of economic life, but they also possessed a political and religious significance. Since we have already written extensively on this in The Mind of the Ancient City, The Religion of the Ancient City, and The Degeneration of the Ancient City, we will pass over this cursorily. Solovyov notes that the levels were not distinguished and hence they formed interconnected wholes. He identifies them as:
- Theosophy: comprising theology, philosophy, and science.
- Theocracy: comprising church, government, and economic society.
- Theurgy: comprising mysticism, fine art, and technical art in a single mystical creative process.
Together, these three form a single religious whole.
Christendom
It is difficult for many to view the period of Christendom with the necessary detachment to understand it. In late paganism, the rites and rituals of the Ancient City had become empty forms, poorly understood, if at all. It was in this milieu that a change was required. Keep in mind Guenon’s claim that the initial impulse of Christianity was esoteric, but that at a certain point it was necessary for it to become exoteric. Solovyov points out the reason for this:
It must be acknowledged that in the universal consciousness of humankind the original interconnectedness was shaken decisively and to its very foundations only with the advent of Christianity, when for the first time the sacred was separated from the profane. In this respect, as a force that dealt the final blow to this external, involuntary unity, Christianity represented the beginning of genuine freedom.
Solovyov then traces the detachment and isolation of the spheres and levels that followed in Christendom. The process begins with the separation of the two lower profane, natural levels from the sacred, divine highest level. Specifically, the government and economic activities separate from the Church. The full explication of this process will have to await a separate posting, but we will report Solovyov’s conclusion.
Christians stripped [the government] of any positive spiritual content. For them the emperor—the last god of the pagan world—could be only the chief administrator of the police. This relationship negated the very principle of ancient society, which entailed specifically the deification of the republic and the emperor as its representative, the merging of spiritual and secular principles. Hence the emperors, in persecuting the Christians, were acting not as bearers of government powers in the narrow sense of the term, but as bearers of the entire ancient consciousness.
There are many today who resent this either because they still retain elements of the ancient consciousness or, as is more likely, they resent the imposition of freedom required by the new order of things. The separation of the sacred from the profane introduces an element of choice, which interferes in the felt immediacy of a natural consciousness.
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Next: The decline of Christendom and the lineaments of the next stage.
Reformation and Revolution
The Third Stage
A very blessed Christmas Day to you all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDUjro-49c4&feature=fvsr
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I hate to be again the only voice aloud this evening, but I guess it’s the night on the backseat of the Trans-Am tonight for this Juggernaut, haha!
I just thought to remind everyone about the mysteries of the Runes and the Great Mysteries of the Tarot: they are Death Mysteries, and the one who has not solved the mystery of Love & Death, cannot pass these puzzles, that are like the corner angles of the tetrahedron and the pentagrammaton united with the Solar Energy of the Hagalaz-Christos-Hroptri-Odhínn.
In other words, dangerous to those who have not penetrated their own heats in the Solar Fires of Loving-Wisdom.
Hostiam puram
Hostiam sanctam
Hostiam Immaculatam
In Quoniam occisus es et redemisti nos
In Sanguine tuo
Sursum Corda, brethren & sorores.
…and again I must interfere with your wisdom portals, and BALANCE the icy mood of the last two songs with these absolutely two beautiful hymns of love and death:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpnjE1LUvE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-UE-KbCQD8
[The first video may not be viewable for many readers. Perhaps you could provide artist and title. ~ admin]
…I’ll try to silence for further intelligent conversation. Don’t let the Chaos of Saturnalia and the twelve days of Yule when the disciples of Wodhánsuz are haunting in the Northern Skies. The King will Reign Again, and in the North there is a planetary light to support the efforts of all of you, my lovely breathren and sorory (is this the right way to say this?) of light and darkness.
When Jesus wept, did His tears make oceans?
Something more about the Runes for you my brethren:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ8RlcloYaA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swnevhF8y5Y
…and again my apologies for the inconvinience. I think you can understand the melodies of the Far North, the sounds of the Northern Winds…
2 (Ajna) + 22 (Sahasrara)
= The 22 trumps of the Great Mysteries of the Tarot
= + 2 = The Number of the Elder Futhark
=> Ignification of Love and Will
A mystery for you to solve, my beloved brethren and sorores:
Take the (Wodh)A-nsuz as the starting point and the Th-urisaz as the ending point in the Thrice Great Hermes’ Solar Channel between the worlds and compare these to the twenty-two Old Hebrew letters. Pass on the Latin, and compare to Sanskrit.
I think we can say that we have the starting point of the Ultimate Synthesis of ‘The Meditations on the Tarot’ & ‘The Meditations on the Runes’…? This is just the starters.
…when the Trees of Life and Death between different manifestations of the Divine Word unite in compassionate contemplation.
My most humble and loving bow in deep homage to you all, fratres and sorores around the planet, around the micro- and macrocosmos, around the Galaxy, and between those Watchers in the Nightsky in the Supercosmic signifying points of Light and Love. May the internal stars of men and all beings shine forth in full blazing loving understanding and glory, between the manifestations of intelligent divinity fracturing and reflecting itself in the temporal manifestation through the beings of matter and combustible elements.
…the number of chakric petals with the 0/0/0 signifying the thousand-fold petaled crown chakra…
A clarification to the above-mentioned: 4 (Muladhara) + 6 (Svadhisthana) + 10 (Manipura) + 12 (Anahata) + 16 (Vishuddhi) + 2 (Ajna) + 22 (Sahasrara) = 72 x 2 (involution + evolution) = 144
In transition to another context, 72 is also the number of goetic daemons and theurgic spirits, the form-bestowing forces and the spiritual-psychic-angelic forces of the micro- and macrocosmos – the mathematical-geometric angles of Divine Essence and Divine Manifestation.
Again an excellent article.
What came to my mind from the picture and from its link text is the fact how the world ages and cycles can be understood, and most specifically, mis-understood.
Something that the author of the article didn’t either mention or was unaware when he made his following points:
“…Moreover, in the standard accounts, The Kali Yuga (or Dark Age) is followed immediately by a new Golden Age. This does not make sense; the end of winter is not followed immediately by summer…”
Although ‘the golden age of the Golden Age’ is temporally speaking FAAAAAAAAR – billions of years – ahead of us, ‘the golden age of the Bronze Age’ is also a real golden age, although only relatively so. Saturn (Satya Yuga and so on) is traditionally one of the main rulers of the Aquarius, and this influence can be seen already in the world, and even more so in the future Golden Age.
“…The problem with the Hindu version, however, is the time frame traditionally applied to the separate ages: hundreds of thousands, even millions of years…”
I have understood that the number of zeros in these calculations refer mainly to the fact that these cycles are so long that they cannot be counted accurately with human means, and because of this they are mainly “symbolic” in character: Remove the zeros and what you’ll get is knowledge widely different in character and in meaning.
It is much like in the number of the chosen ones in the Apocalypse of John: the 144 000 chosen ones. the number of chakric petals with the 0/0/0 signifying the thousand-fold petaled crown chakra, the 144 referring to the involutionary and evolutionary incarnations of the spiritual monad through the zodiac (12 x 12 = 144) etc. “The first ones become last and the last ones become first”: Those who traverse the Path before others are left to guide, teach and inspire those who traverse it later on or more slower (Kain & Abel etc.), but each and every monad must and will eventually pass through the cycles of development (again one point in which Evola mis-understood the theosophical teaching).
Have a radiant Yule and Winter Solstice, Cologero & co.!