The Misuse of Intelligence

Posted on 2017-11-27 by Cologero

We have written this book, not for the irrational animals who, in their exterior, have the form a man, but in their image, in spirit, are evil and wild beasts, which is disclosed and exhibited by their properties; but for the image of man, for those who are budding forth … Continue reading →

The Metaphysics of Non-being

Posted on 2017-11-19 by Cologero

Metaphysics of Being Thomas Aquinas developed a comprehensive metaphysics of Being by integrating Philosophy, predominantly via Aristotle. Plato and Plotinus entered into his system indirectly as mediated by Dionysius the Areopagite and Augustine. As such, Scholasticism is consistent with Traditional metaphysics. Of course, by Being, the Scholastics meant much more … Continue reading →

Christian Gnosis: Meister Eckhart

Posted on 2017-10-29 by Cologero

Carl Jung regarded Meister Eckhart and Dante as two of the Ten Pillars of the Bridge of the Spirit. Faust is the most recent pillar in that bridge of the spirit which spans the morass of world history, beginning with the Gilgamesh epic, the I Ching, the Upanishads, the Tao-Te-Ching, the fragments of … Continue reading →

Justification and Postmortem States

Posted on 2017-10-18 by Cologero

Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. ~ Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 In the Paradisio of Dante’s Divine Comedy, that great mystical work, the … Continue reading →

Dreaming in the Dog Days

Posted on 2017-09-20 by Cologero

But when the artichoke flowers, and the chirping grasshopper sits in a tree and pours down his shrill song continually from under his wings in the season of wearisome heat, then goats are plumpest and wine sweetest; women are most wanton, but men are feeblest, because Sirius parches head and … Continue reading →

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Posted on 2017-08-17 by Cologero

The right to be free to seek out the truth [involves] the duty to devote oneself to an ever deeper and wider search for it. ~ Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris It is disheartening to listen to paid pundits – often earning 6 or even 7 digit salaries (in … Continue reading →

Heroes and Vibhutis

Posted on 2017-08-08 by Cologero

Then said his Lordship, “Well. God mend all!”–“Nay, by God, Donald, we must help him to mend it!” said the other. ~ Epigraph to Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle The Great Man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then … Continue reading →

The Condor and the Anarch

Posted on 2017-07-31 by Cologero

We fail not because of our dreams but because we do not dream forcefully enough. ~ Ernst Junger The Rose does not ask why. It blooms because it blooms. ~ Angelus Silesius I live after a calling as little as the flower grows and gives fragrance after a calling. ~ … Continue reading →

Warriors and Actualized Men

Posted on 2017-07-24 by Rory

This is a guest post by Rory, who had been working out a personal program. He proposes that it, in whole or in part, may be useful for a new Fourth Order. I have registered the domain The Bernard Option, although it has not yet been configured. If there is … Continue reading →

Reactionary Chic

Posted on 2017-07-10 by Cologero

There was a time — not so distant in terms of world history — when converts came from world-class authors, novelists, or philosophers. I am thinking in particular of Jaris-Karl Huysmans, Charles Peguy, Leon Bloy, Jacques Maritain, G K Chesterton, or Graham Greene, not to mention Charles Maurras and Ernst … Continue reading →

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