A chapter in the book Freedom and the Spirit by Nicolas Berdyaev deals with the Theosophical movements vis-à-vis authentic gnosis. Valentin Tomberg writes that Berdyaev is one of those who “show in their works a progress which is very advanced in substantially bringing together intelligence and the intuition of faith.” … Continue reading
Category Archives: Nicolas Berdyaev
Creativity, Personality, Sex
Julius Evola has mentioned the philosopher Nicholas Berdyaev several times, including his review of The Meaning of History. But Evola has also mentioned him in the context of the possible recovery of Christianity to tradition. However, Evola ultimately rejected that approach, and I’m not sure if that was meant in … Continue reading
The Russian Turn
Alexander Dugin has pointed out that Russia has had no Enlightenment. In the context of this survival & ancient adversarial relationship towards the West, Nicholas Berdyaev is worth quoting in full (he is analyzing the Westernizer Trubetskoi): In this world there is no mystical translucency. But after his devastating of … Continue reading
Yahweh’s Template – II
Who is Yahweh? Jesus certainly never spoke of Him, except to say that “before Abraham was, I am”. Jesus taught of His Father; and yet he kept the rites of Yahweh in such a way as to transform them. The more he taught, the angrier the Law-protectors of Yahweh became. … Continue reading
Traditional and Profane Science
Time is the moving image of eternity. ~ Plato Timaeus Metaphysics begins where physics, that is, the study of nature, ends. We pointed out where physics, or science ends, so now let us draw the metaphysical conclusions. Energy Taken to its extreme, in Schroedinger’s model, matter consists ultimately of undifferentiated … Continue reading
Berdyaev and the Mirage of Progress
In these passages, taken from The Destiny of Man, Berdyaev reveals his origins from Russian Hermetism and that he is more than a “philosopher” in the academic sense. He rejects the notion that we can study man as he is today and then extrapolate back to his origins. Like Guenon, … Continue reading
Woman is the bearer of the sex-element
Woman is the bearer of the sex-element in this world. In man sex is more differentiated and specialized: in woman it is diffused through the whole tissue of the organism, through the whole structure of the soul. In man sexual attraction demands more immediate satisfaction than in woman, but he … Continue reading