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Meditation of Thais
2022-04-19
Answers with no questions. Continue reading →
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Rest, See, Love, Praise
2020-04-19
Not all men are in the same condition, and all are not led or disposed to a knowledge of the truth in the same way. For some are brought to a knowledge…
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Putting a Rose Back on the Cross
2013-04-19
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…
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The Spirit of Roman Civilization (V)
2012-04-19
The causes of the decline of the Roman Empire, its rectification in the Middle Ages, and future prospects. Instead, the best is the analysis made by De Francisci of the various political…
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The Great Divide and our Ownmost
2011-04-19
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…
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The Succubus and the Houri

Posted on 2016-08-15 by Cologero

A frustrating aspect of spiritual development is backsliding, i.e., reverting to the same unhelpful states of consciousness repeatedly. I can go for days with a mind as still as the ocean on a calm summer’s day, interspersed with periods of bliss. Yet, unexpectedly, a demonic attack occurs, usually in that twilight state between waking and sleeping. Continue reading →

Essence of Archaism

Posted on 2011-02-08 by Cologero

In The Essence of Archaism, Guillaume Faye describes the return of what he calls “archaic values”. First of all, the Greek word arche, like the Latin principium, means what comes first, either temporarily (“beginning”) or ontologically (“principle”). Thus the Prologue to John’s Gospel in Greek is, “En arche en o … Continue reading →

Some men return to their past, so that new forces may arise for the reconquest ~ J. Evola
Par l'espace, l'univers me comprend et m'engloutit comme un point ; par la penseé, je le comprends.~ Pascal
A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace. ~ Confucius
Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi: in interiore hominis habitat veritas. ~ St. Augustine
A man of talent is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot hit, but the man of genius is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot see. ~ Schopenhauer
To live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often. ~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
I believe in being free, acquiring knowledge, and telling the truth. ~ H. L. Mencken
On se lasse de penser, et même d'agir; jamais on ne se lasse d'aimer. ~ Auguste Comte
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson
The divine sleeps in the rock, breathes in the plant, dreams in the animal, and wakes in man. ~ old Nordic adage
The strong man strikes only when it is absolutely necessary, and then nothing stops him. ~ Vilfredo Pareto
Pour l’homme de droite, être libre ne consiste pas à faire ce que l’on veut, mais à faire ce qui est conforme à l’ordre naturel voulu par Dieu.
Very few battles are lost physically. Battles are lost almost always morally; the real victor like the real loser is the one who believes he is. ~ Joseph de Maistre