The ignorant are humble since they know that they do not know. The intelligent are humble because they understand how difficult it is to know something. But the half-smart are so absolutely certain about everything. ~ cjs Executive Summary In the Reign of Quantity, Rene Guenon describes two opponents of … Continue reading →

When Being is forgotten, there is only becoming. Knowledge of becoming alone is illusory because the ego superimposes its own interpretation onto the real. A real science will dispel such illusory interpretations in order to penetrate to the real. Continue reading →

There are the diehard materialists who reject the argument a priori. The objection is to the introduction of “mysterious” forces like mind, teleology, and so on. I suppose that familiarity breeds contempt, since gravity, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, the big bang, the origin of life, etc., are themselves quite mysterious. Continue reading →

Recently, I was interviewed by a team of Martian scientists and metaphysicians who were studying human life on earth. They were curious about the objects we’ve been sending to their planet; in particular, they wondered why we didn’t just use astral travel. You see, the Martians never went through the process of solidification experienced by earth humans. Continue reading →

Now, it still holds that, apart from psychoanalysis with its murky world, all modern parapsychology embraces only the offal of the extranormal and is outside all that might have an authentically spiritual value. Continue reading →

Housekeeping note: Logres is the pen name of M. Smallwood, and I appreciate the fellowship and camaraderie of all those here, and at Gnosis group; I thank you all, and also our host. What follows is an outline of the foreword to Revolt against the Modern World, an executive summary, … Continue reading →

The artisan of the soul will seek to know the cosmic order. He will work to become free from useless laws, psychological turmoil, or hastily made commitments. In that case, the experience of sin takes on a weightier, even terrifying, significance. The breach of the cosmic law involves a rupture with all creation. Continue reading →

First and foremost, I will tell you who should work in this work, and when, and by what means: and what discretion you shall have in it. If you ask me who shall work thus, I answer you—all who have forsaken the world in a true will. ~ The Cloud … Continue reading →

The higher order system defines its components, rather than the other way around. Continue reading →

Subration is the mental process whereby one disvalues some previously appraised object or content of consciousness because of its being contradicted by a new experience. A judgment about something is contradicted by a new experience when it is impossible to affirm both the previous judgment and what is learned or acquired in the new experience. Continue reading →