The Erymanthian Boar Hercules had been given the (originally) ten labors as a penance for letting Hera drive him to wrath, in which he slew his six sons. So don’t let anyone tell you that penance is a “Catholic” thing. All of the labors center around a primordial world of … Continue reading
A dog does not need training to fulfill its true nature, so why then does a man? That is because man knows good and evil, so his mind is divided. Continue reading
When it seemed that the whole outer world was known, explored, and catalogued, the idea that the true secrets of the universe lay in the inner exploration of consciousness seemed worthy of a life. Continue reading
The Third Test, The Ceryneian Hind For the third labor, Hercules was given a retrieval task instead of a slaying to accomplish. Since Hercules could not be overcome with guile & brute force, it was hoped that he could be made to trespass against a god, & have divine fury … Continue reading
“Now concerning the first Foundation of thy Mind I will say somewhat. Thou shalt study with Diligence in the mathematics, because thereby shall be revealed unto thee the Laws of thine own Reason and the Limitations thereof.” (Evola studied engineering and Guenon, mathematics.) Continue reading
So what have the novelties brought us? They reject the “old ways” and are not loyal to our ancestors, or else they count as ancestors only those from some remote, unknowable, and imaginary antiquity. In actuality, they prefer the ways, mores, and beliefs of the modern world and have often admitted it. The task of the new conservatives of reflection is to recover those ideas and restate them for modern ears. Continue reading
The story continues: Hercules has an adversary, Eurystheus, who is the current king and holds regnum over Hercules’ territory. Now, in the esoteric Christian tradition, Satan is not our “enemy”, but our “adversary” – there is a subtle, but distinct difference (Alain Benoist has come to the conclusion that the … Continue reading
⇐ Part III Part V ⇒ Totalitarianism Evola next makes the distinction between the totalitarian, which he associates with Stalinesque type states, and the organic state of Tradition. The central authority can become degenerate when it tries to control everything, as in the Soviet Union. The Traditional system is based on spiritual … Continue reading
From our friends at Meditations on the Tarot on the birth of the Self in the alchemical marriage.
Hercules and the Lion Hercules is a picture of the strong man, who binds: in Christ’s parables, he uses the image to refer to Satan, who always imitates God in a perverse manner. Esoterically, we might say that for most people (excluding Tomberg’s mysterious “just man”), “Satan makes the first … Continue reading