The first of men, Fuxi crystallized the Primordial Tradition, Lao Tzu drew from it a body of doctrine, Confucius drew from it a system of morality. Continue reading →

In traditional cosmology, the position of Earth is the furthest from Heaven and the closest to Hell. If that is what geocentrism means, then it must be true. Continue reading →

There are two belief systems. The modern view is that all will be known in the indefinite future. The traditional view is that all important knowledge has been given to us already, but has been forgotten. Continue reading →

Eckhart, with the possible exception of Dante, can be regarded from an Indian point of view as the greatest of all Europeans. ~ Ananda Coomaraswamy Continue reading →

A farmer’s product might be wheat; a builder’s, a house; and so on. But for the intellectual class — e.g., journalists, lawyers, politicians — their very product is words. That is why, in the news media, concrete acts matter less than what people say, and beliefs are more important than truth. Hence, the discussion is primarily about who said what, what terms were used, how quickly did he say it, and the like. This class is entirely nominalist and has taken the place vacated by an ineffectual spiritual caste. Continue reading →

Pantheism does not admit the existence of individual beings. Pantheism offers only the perspective of letting oneself be lulled by the undulation of the ocean of deified nature. ~ Valentin Tomberg There is a photo of Giulio Cogni in Julius Evola’s Sintesi di dottrina della razza with the following caption: … Continue reading →

It would be better to be able to take as its basis a Western organization already enjoying an effective existence. It seems quite clear that there is now but one organization in the West that is of a traditional character and that has preserved a doctrine that could serve as an appropriate basis for the work in question. Continue reading →

In the Philobiblon, Richard de Bury (Bishop of Durham) justifies his love of books in a Christian framework by pointing out that Plato is said to have paid 10000 dinars for a rare scroll of Philolaus. Philolaus‘ work was most likely a transmission of the teachings of Pythagoras, who had … Continue reading →

In the final chapter of Rene Guenon’s “Metaphysical Principles of Calculus” he concludes his exposition dedicating the chapter to the paradoxes of the Eleatic, Zeno, disciple of Parmenides. Guenon’s position is that Zeno’s paradoxes are not examples of an emerging scientific “rationalism” as the academic position mostly holds, but a … Continue reading →

Tomberg emphasizes that there is a “Self Beyond the Self”, which Christians call God, as well. However I am not so certain, speaking even as a Christian, that these types of debates are more a matter of method & emphasis, rather than absolute substance. Continue reading →