{"id":427,"date":"2010-04-29T22:27:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T02:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=427"},"modified":"2022-04-28T22:01:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T02:01:47","slug":"the-true-sage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"The True Sage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nMatter — the Platonic \u201cother\u201d — is effectively the sign of imperfection of the act and, as it exists, is connected to that fundamental \u201cinjustice\u201d about which Anaximander, Parmenides, and Empedocles speak — and is, essentially, evil. There is no other evil beyond necessity, of which matter, brute existence, is the evidence; and as long as the \u201cI\u201d is not able to avoid the experience of matter — of this \u201cother\u201d against and beyond him — he will be imperfect: evil, impure, irrational. ~ Julius Evola<\/strong>, The Individual and the Becoming of the World<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fundamental difference between the Eastern way — as in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam — and the Western way is the understanding of Will. The Eastern way understands the world as illusion and so the path to escape it is world rejection. The Western way understands the World as the reflection of Spirit, just as the light of the Moon is the reflection of the light from the Sun.<\/p>\n

The World, then, is not illusion, but is rather the creation of Spirit. The Spirit is Will, Unity, Logos; on its own (that is, separated and ignorant of the Divine source), the world would is blind and deterministic. Both the divine principle and world soul have the same goal: deification or theosis of all that exists. The world soul is blind and passive and does not know what to strive for; it strives to attain unity unconsciously. The human being can participate in the freedom of the Spirit and hence be the agent for the goal of the world process.<\/p>\n

In The Justification of the Good<\/cite>, Solovyov describes the True Sage.<\/p>\n

\n\"Vladimir
\nIn human life there is an opposition between that which is conformable to Ideas and in harmony with Reason, and that which contradicts the ideal norm. The true sage is no longer a simple hermit or a wandering monk, who has renounced life and is mildly preaching the same renunciation to others; he is one who boldly denounces the wrong and irrational things of life. Hence the end is different in the two cases. Buddha Sakyamuni peacefully dies after a meal with his disciples, while Socrates, condemned and put to prison by his fellow citizens, is sentenced by them to drink a poisoned cup. But in spite of this tragic ending, the attitude of the Greek idealist to the reality unworthy of him is not one of decisive opposition. The highest representative of humanity at this state—the philosopher—is conscious of his absolute worth in so far as he lives by pure thought in the truly existent intelligible realm of Ideas or of the all embracing rationality, and despises the false, the merely phenomenal being of the material and sensuous world.<\/p>\n

In any case his attitude to the unworthy reality is merely one of contempt. The contempt is certainly different in kind from that characteristic of Buddhism. Buddha despises the world because everything is illusion. The very indefiniteness of this judgment, however, takes away its sting. If all is equally worthless, no one is particular is hurt by it, and if nothing but Nirvana is opposed to the bad reality, the latter may sleep in peace. For Nirvana is an absolute state and not the norm for relative states.<\/p>\n

Now the idealist does possess such a norm and he despises and condemns the life that surrounds him not because it inevitably shares in the illusory character of everything, but because it is abnormal, irrational, opposed to the Idea. Such condemnation is no longer neutral, it has an element of defiance and demand. It is slighting to all who are bound by worldly irrationality and therefore leads to hostility, and sometimes to persecution and the cup with poison.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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