For centuries we worked in the manner of men; even while in decline we struggled to preserve our nobility. Exhausted, we began to lose our heads; our waking hours were haunted by dreams; only the illusion of progress kept us alive. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Virgin Spring
Virgin Spring is a 1960 film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Loosely based on a medieval Swedish legend, Bergman develops it into an examination of the relationship between the new Christian religion and the old Norse religion which it was supplanting. We are not interested in the many moralistic interpretations of … Continue reading
It’s all one Religion
Oh well, it’s all one religion ~ Ezra Pound Continue reading
The Great Migration
From Hyperborea to the modern world. Continue reading
The End of the Golden Age
Two birds, inseparably united companions, dwell in the same tree; the one eats of the fruit of the tree, while the other looks on without eating.~ Mundaka Upanishad iii.1 This quote from the Upanishads, which appear at the end of the Vedic period, demonstrates the vague beginnings of the dualistic … Continue reading
The Fall from the Primordial State
Let us be clear. The Primordial State is not a “state of nature” as in Rousseau, but rather of supernature. But if in the Primordial State man lives in harmony with nature and the divine, with a direct awareness of God in his psyche as his life force, and with … Continue reading
Hyperborea and the Primordial Tradition
There is an intuitive awareness of God and the universal order by clairvoyant vision, just as we now recognize a tree or a mountain by direct experience. Thinking is regarded as another sense, along with sight, hearing, touch or taste. Discursive thought — of the “yes” and the “no”, of the “good” and the “evil” — is not present. Instead, thoughts are experienced as voices from the celestial hierarchies (gods or angels) or communications from ancestors or as commands from rulers. Continue reading
Roma and Amor
Love conquers all and let us yield to love. Continue reading
Traditional and Profane Science
By concentrating and stilling the mind, an opening is prepared for the appearance of Being, or divine inspiration. This may also appear as a creative force to an artist. Continue reading
Qualitative Civilization
True progress will always respect the line of formal development of man. It will give rise to qualitative civilization such as was the civilization of Greece in the fourth century BC and, in a higher degree, the civilization of Western Europe in the thirteenth century. Continue reading