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Privation
Evola consolidates the understanding gained by the man at stage three with a discussion of the topic “privation”. In Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, “privation” is the absence of a given form in something capable of possessing it. As it is a lack, it has no being in itself, yet it … Continue reading
The Void and the Fullness are Indissolubly Bound
By this withdrawal, the unmanifested God, the Universal I, creates a space for the Other selves. The relationship is sustained through Love. Continue reading
Where Truth Will Dwell
Possessing these new faculties, freed from excessive labour, the new man will have the power to organize life in the new society and, with the help of his clairvoyance, he will establish a new order where truth will dwell. Continue reading
The Pelican, the Poet, and the Puer
God’s truth is hidden from the world. However, once God’s truth is revealed, there is an inversion of all values. Then revelation is the light, and the world is embedded in darkness. Continue reading
The Path of Courtly Love
Contemplation of God without formal support is not possible… Since therefore some form of support is necessary, the best and most perfect kind is the contemplation of God in women. ~ Ibn Arabi Continue reading
Esoteric Training
Tradition describes the world of Being, essences, the necessary, which alone is fully real. The rest can only see the world of Becoming, the accidental, the contingent. It is imperative to shift one’s perspective. Continue reading
Treatise on Separate Substances
By Thomas Aquinas Introduction Since we cannot be present at the holy ceremonies in honor of the angels, we should not let this time of devotion go by fruitlessly; rather, such time as we do not spend in singing their praises, we should spend in writing about them. And because … Continue reading
Thomas Aquinas: On the Angels
DE SUBSTANTIIS SEPARATISTREATISE ON SEPARATE SUBSTANCES byThomas Aquinas translated byFrancis J. LescoeWest Hartford CN: Saint Joseph College, 1959 edited and html-formated by Joseph Kenny, O.P. CONTENTS The opinion of the early philosophers and of Plato Aristotle’s opinion How Aristotle and Plato agree How the above positions of Plato and Aristotle … Continue reading