All practical esotericism is founded on the following rule: it is necessary to be one in oneself (concentration without effort) and one with the spiritual world (to have a zone of silence in the soul) in order for a revelatory or actual spiritual experience to be able to take place. Continue reading
The prophets of electrum have accomplished the alliance of intelligence and the intuition of faith—the alchemical marriage of the moon and the sun. Continue reading
Quaternity That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. ~ … Continue reading
Unconscious man is discontinuous and ununified. The life of the conscious man is integral and he always remains himself. The more he suffused with the light of truth, the close he comes to the Absolute I. Continue reading
Impassibility was one of the preternatural gifts before the Fall. If the aim of the spiritual life is theosis, to become more like God, then we need to recover the quality of impassibility that was lost. Continue reading
Ahriman In the essay On Magic, Giordano Bruno discusses the existence and action of non-human spirits. The practice of invoking god, demons, and heroes is the branch of magic called theurgy. He calls this the “magic of the hopeless” because they often become the vessels of evil demons. A safer … Continue reading
When the mind is attached to or obsessed with these thought forms, it is not free. The True Will is free, but that requires the zone of silence from such thoughts. The visionary Anne Catherine Emmerich claimed that if these spirits could be seen by the senses, the vast number of them would occlude the sky. In practical terms, that means that various thoughts are constantly impinging both on the individual as well as on the human race. The elemental spirits are not benign, yet they are not exactly fallen angels. Continue reading
Everyone else is like Don Quixote fighting imaginary battles in a world they no longer understand. Continue reading
The modern mind forgets about being, mistaking the changing world of appearances for Being itself. Opposed to that, Thomism tries to “lead to” the awakening of Being by beginning with sense experience. Continue reading
The cause of all wars and revolutions—in a word, of all violence—is always the same: negation of hierarchy. ~ Valentin Tomberg In the essay Transcendence and the Aristocratic Principle, published in Aristokratia III, Edwin Dyga gives us an excellent overview of traditional reactionary thinkers, that is, those of the “Old … Continue reading