On Job and Suffering There never was, and never will be a place on earth free from sorrows. The only sorrow-less place possible is in the heart, when the Lord is present there. – St Nikon of Optima I. Introduction Job in the Bible is a powerful text. It can … Continue reading
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The Constitution of a Traditional Society: The Capo (III)
⇐ Part II This is the conclusion to the role of the Leader in a traditional society. It needs to be read meditatively, and not with the intent to refute or falsify it. If read in silence, without the infusion of personal opinions, something very different may be heard. We … Continue reading
The Constitution of a Traditional Society: The Capo (II)
⇐ Part I Part III ⇒ In this second of three parts, Guido De Giorgio expands on the role of the Leader in a traditional society. It is instructive to compare De Giorgio’s point of view with Evola’s idea of the state; De Giorgio includes the spiritual or contemplative aspect … Continue reading
The Constitution of a Traditional Society: The Capo
Part II ⇒ This is part 1 of the concluding section of Guido De Giorgio‘s description of the establishement of a traditional society. Here, he develops the idea of the supreme leader, above the three castes, whose primary duty is the maintenance of Tradition. This section, as a whole, needs … Continue reading
The Establishment of a Traditional Society: Workers (IV)
⇐ Part III This is the concluding part of the chapter on the Workers from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition] by Guido De Giorgio. Even those who say and believe they adhere to a tradition have accepted science as the expression of an achievement that, according to them, would … Continue reading
The Establishment of a Traditional Society: Workers (III)
⇐ Part II Part IV ⇒ This is the third part of the chapter on the Workers from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition] by Guido De Giorgio. Here he describes how science changed the nature of work and displaced tradition. Hence, the corporations also originally represented modes of realization … Continue reading
The Establishment of a Traditional Society: Workers (II)
⇐ Part I Part III ⇒ This is second part of the chapter on the Workers from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition] by Guido De Giorgio. Here he describes the nature of work and art, and their relation to the divine. I have translated the root lavor- as labor … Continue reading
The Establishment of a Traditional Society: Workers
Part II ⇒ This is the first part of the chapter on the workers from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition] by Guido De Giorgio. In this part, De Giorgio reviews the metaphysical foundations of the notion of castes and prepares the groundwork for the discussion of the specific functions … Continue reading
The Cross and the Eagle
Love in the initiatic sense has therefore the capacity to take away the dream and death, giving to the Fedel d’Amore a new life. That is reached through degrees of successive development. Continue reading
The Constitution of a Traditional Society: Warriors (III)
⇐ Part II This is the final segment on the role of the Warrior caste in a Traditional Society. Here we see that the point of war is to establish peace. The respective spheres of influence of the priests and warriors are made clear, although caste conflicts can still break … Continue reading