← Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Speak little and act like nature A violent wind does not blow all morning A sudden downpour does not last all day This impermanence is proper to nature itself [= to Heaven-and-Earth] If even nature does not have the power to persist (in extreme actions) … Continue reading
Dante is a poet in a special sense. One cannot and should not consider Dante as a “poet” in the ordinary and modern sense of the word. For moderns, poetry is “an expression of individual states”; it is subjective, it is limited, it is purely aesthetic. Modern aesthetics, from De … Continue reading
We continue today the translation of Evola’s 1959 edition and commentary on the Tao Te Ching, published under the title Il Libro del Principio e della sua Azione [The Book of the Principle and its Action]. ← Chapters 20-21 Chapter 22 To be whole in the fragment Straight in the … Continue reading
For it is the venerable and mysterious Hermit who was master of the most intimate and most cherished dreams of my youth, as moreover he is the master of dreams for all youth in every country, who are enamoured by the call to seek the narrow gate and the hard … Continue reading
That was when I learned about “simulation” for which he should have received a yellow card. Continue reading
Each miracle of the Gospel of St. John is simultaneously a teaching, a parable, a sign, and an event. Continue reading
There is a rich source of teachings on metaphysics, spiritual practice, meditation, and contemplation. It is hubris for anyone to think he or she can recreate all that de novo. Continue reading
Thus, Mary Magdalena, who at first took him for a gardener, recognised him only by the manner in which he pronounced her name “Mary.” Thomas recognised him when the Risen One showed him the marks of his wounds. The two disciples from Emmaus knew him in the breaking of bread. Continue reading
Crops, such as the tomato, potato, maize, pumpkin, chocolate, vanilla, and tobacco, originated in the New World yet radically transformed the Old world. Continue reading
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