When the soul is in a state of calm, it reflects the images of the thought and intellect; but when it is disturbed by the disorder produced in the harmony of the body, the thought and the intellect think without the image, and the act of intelligence takes place without being reflected. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Plotinus
Playing by the Book
We Sons of Hermes understand possibilities, and master them by an act of will. Continue reading
The Great Divide and our Ownmost
In The Hermetic Tradition, Julius Evola mentions two competing views of history: History is the continuous upward evolution of collective humanity. Civilizations arise, mature and die in a series of epochs and disconnected cycles. The first, he rejects out of hand. The second has some merit yet is inadequate. When … Continue reading
Forgotten Tradition
There seems to be much misunderstanding of Evola’s moral position. As he claims, he is drawing on doctrines [which] are in truth of a fundamental value, currently almost forgotten, that placed evil in matter. Apparently contemporary readers really have forgotten them, even those who falsely believe themselves to be relying … Continue reading
Vedanta and Western Tradition
The educated man of today is completely out of touch with those European modes of thought and those intellectual aspects of the Christian doctrine which are nearest those of the Vedic traditions. Continue reading