In Memoriam In the USA, today is Memorial Day, when the war dead are memorialized. By extension, it is also a time to remember the dead among our family and friends; it is the secular equivalent to All Soul’s Day for an irreligious nation. We can also use the occasion … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2010
St Anthony and Practical Reason
Like skilled painters and sculptors, it is by their works that they display their virtuous and God-loving way of life. Continue reading
Philokalia and the Recovery of Tradition
The Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. (Matthew 11:12) There is a new edition of Volume I of the Philokalia translated by Constantine Cavarnos and published by the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Philokalia means “Love of the Beautiful” (not “beautiful things”) … Continue reading
The Spirit of Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre was an Hermetist (in the school of Martines de Pasqually and Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin), Traditionalist, Reactionary, European, and a source of the Russian Idea. In his Self-Defense, Julius Evola includes Maistre among those well-bred men holding sane and normal views common prior to the French Revolution. In … Continue reading
The True Sons of God
This schema separates Solovyov’s system (and ipso facto all Traditions) from humanisms. There is a spiritual Kingdom of spiritually aware men that is as different from the worlds of material men as the latter are from mammals. Continue reading
Précis
What follows is a brief précis of the fundamental point of view of the Gornahoor project. Epistomology We hold to three degrees of knowledge: Doxa (sensus, opinion, sensual knowledge). Direct, intuitive knowledge through the senses. I taste the sweetness and moistness of a mango. Dianoia (ratio, rational knowledge). Indirect knowledge, … Continue reading
Profligacy of thought
Let’s say a person has a thought every two seconds – that seems about right, although I am sure that thoughts just race through a large number of people, and they are slow to form in a much smaller number. Assuming 16 waking hours per day, that comes to about … Continue reading
The Metaphysics of Law
Thus one arrives at the ideal of law by introspection, at the idea of law by reasonable evaluation of experiences, and at the concept of law by knowing the facts of positive law. Continue reading