the realities comprising the external world are not immediately or directly given in consciousness, but are abstractions of them in varying degrees performed by the external and internal senses, and transformed into knowledge of the external world by means of intellectual construction. Continue reading
Although you must never put the Lord, thy God, to the test, you should always test Fortuna. Continue reading
There are three types of men corresponding to the three ways of knowing: the unknowning, the free man, and the sage. The first has opinions, the second is guided by reason, and the third understands through intuition. Continue reading
It should be clear that the theory behind the use of enthogens for spiritual “enlightenment” is deeply flawed. It assumes that such enlightenment involves a particular experience, or set of experiences, that are somehow to be distinguished from all other experiences. This idea comes from the confusion of the psychic and the spiritual. ~ Rene Guenon, The Reign of Quantity Continue reading