The Esoteric Origin of the Species (III)

Posted on 2013-04-21 by Aeneas

This is the conclusion of essay originally which appeared in the Introduction to Magic, volume 3. The Diagram discussed is by Edgar Dacqué. He was a German paleontologist who was a devout Lutheran, a Theosophist, and was involved with the OTO. In this conclusion, Avro explains how man arises from … Continue reading →

Putting a Rose Back on the Cross

Posted on 2013-04-19 by Logres

Cologero has been very generous in allowing many of us to write on Gornahoor. For that reason, I’ve sometimes repaid him by not posting anything, when I was sure I had nothing important or clear to say. I am ending the series on Iamblichus; the reader will have to write … Continue reading →

The Esoteric Origin of the Species (II)

Posted on 2013-04-17 by Aeneas

This essay originally appeared in the Introduction to Magic, volume 3. This is the second of multiple parts. It was published under the name “Avro”, which I believe to be Julius Evola. ⇐ Part 1 Part 3 ⇒ Moving from primitive man to the anthropoid and the ape, and presuming the … Continue reading →

Creativity, Personality, Sex

Posted on 2013-04-16 by Cologero

To exalt the romantic, tragic, anxious soul, always in search of new “truths”, is essentially something of a civilization sick and damaged in its race. Calmness, style, clarity, command, discipline, power, and the Olympic spirit are instead the points of reference for every formation of character and life. Continue reading →

The Soul after Death: Psychic Experience

Posted on 2013-04-15 by Cologero

It frequently happens that a soul on the path of death recognizes those with whom it is to share the same eternal dwelling for equal blame or reward. Continue reading →

The Esoteric Origin of the Species

Posted on 2013-04-14 by Aeneas

This essay originally appeared in the Introduction to Magic, volume 3. This is the first of multiple parts. It was published under the name “Avro”, which I believe to be Julius Evola. Part 2 ⇒ The reader will not fail to notice that in one particular point among others, the … Continue reading →

April Showers 2013

Posted on 2013-04-13 by Cologero

April showers have chased me indoors. Last night I made enough money playing Texas Hold’em to cover the purchase of the UR/KRUR books and Della Riveria’s Magic World of the Heros, so you guys are off the hook. But thanks for the offers. Don’t knock playing cards which are clearly … Continue reading →

Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives

Posted on 2013-04-12 by Logres

Cologero had mentioned this book, coincidentally, at the same time that I had stumbled across it myself, so I finally made the purchase, and finished reading it. I found it most helpful; Elder Thaddeus is simultaneously very strict (insofar as he sets out an arduous teaching) and yet very compassionate, … Continue reading →

The Soul after Death

Posted on 2013-04-11 by Cologero

Thoughts have a temporal component, since we think one thought after another, which can all be related sequentially. However, there is no “where”; i.e., one thought is not to the left of another, or across from it, etc. Yet, images in a dream do have a spatial aspect; in the dream, we “go places”, there is different scenery for different places, and so on. Furthermore, since we “see” things, that brings up the question of a “body”; do the figures in a dream have an “astral body” that we then “see”? Continue reading →

The Fire of Creation

Posted on 2013-04-10 by Cologero

Today we are truly at the dawn of the coming of the third person in the dialectic of the divine; the direction of creative activity in motion, of the universe in which dynamis or power is the fundamental note, and the immanent presence of the “cosmic Fire” is characteristic of this. Continue reading →