Typically, as Mihai has pointed out, the imagination functions to degrade man. It offers him pornography, violence, and all other species of lust: a 24/7 cinema strip of running images. If it’s not doing this, it’s running narcissistic movie clips of nonstop happy endings for the engrossed slave, who lives … Continue reading
Category Archives: Tradition
Short Note on Woman in East and West
I just discovered that Guido De Giorgio‘s essay Short Notes on Ascesis and Anti-Europe is missing a note. Although this section was present in the original Ur journal and even the first collections, it was excluded in all the editions after 1955. I have no idea why. I have a … Continue reading
Yangming’s Doctrine of Awakening
It was pointed out in a discussion here that Valentin Tomberg wrote the following on “exteriorization”, summarizing the respective attitudes of Buddha and Christ to the vision of a damaged world: The Buddha saw the true nature of the world and that it was sick. Considering it incurable he instituted … Continue reading
Short Notes on Ascesis and Anti-Europe
This is authored by Havismat (Guido De Giorgio), from Volume 2 of Introduction to Magic. We see more of the paradoxical style of his writing. He also reveals some personal details about his time in Tunisia and his experience with Sufis. Regarding expression. There is the traditional one, the doctrinal … Continue reading
The Idea of the World in the West
This the the concluding part of review by Julius Evola that originally appeared in Bilychnis, volume XXVI, September, 1925. In this section, he discusses the book L’idea e il mondo by R. Pavese, while comparing it to the ideas previously discussed about Bhagavan Das. I know nothing of Pavese and … Continue reading
Unseen warfare: The power of the image
Although last time I said I was going to write on a completely different topic, I find that what I am about to say here deserves priority, since it also expands on a point which I only briefly touched in the last article and which is of maximal importance in … Continue reading
Octad
The Octad is a short chapter. Iamblichus continues his march through numbers noting that all men, without exception, count 1-10. The empiricist says this is because they have 10 fingers, and the Hermeticist says “why do you suppose that is?”. In any case, it is not impossible to conceive … Continue reading