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Love and Work
2019-06-09
To find the perfect woman, you yourself would have to be perfect. The Cabbala explains that all pre-existing souls have a male and female part, that separate at birth. Only if the…
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From Worms to Gods
2016-06-09
In which we review Wolfgang Smith’s writings on Darwinism and biology. I am worm, I am slave, I am king, I am God. ~ Gavrila Derzhavin Spiritual and mystical writers are often…
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Astray in the Human Jungle
2014-06-09
Turn every negativity to your profit. ~ St John Climacus Courtly love can be effective only if it is based on a Gnosis which is lived, for only a lived Gnosis, on…
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The Opposite of a Misconception
2013-06-09
The swallows always seem to find their way back to Capistrano every year on March 19th. That is because they are in possession of three things: a destination, a tradition, and an…
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Players and Pugilists
2012-06-09
It is of considerable significance that the profession considered most sinful in classical, medieval, and even early modern European society was the actor, that theater was consistently denounced by both civil and…
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Transmutation: A Novel

Posted on 2011-01-21 by Cologero

A frequent visitor to Gornahoor, Lydia Bisanti, asked me to make her novel Transmutation: A novel about Eternal Love available in the Gornahoor library. This is how she describes herself: Lydia Bisanti’s interest in metaphysics started in the seventies when she discovered the writings of Rene Guenon, a French metaphysician … Continue reading →

Hero with 1000 Faces

Posted on 2011-01-21 by Cologero

One particular point we have emphasized is the idea of three stages of consciousness. In the first stage, a man or woman accepts things as they are without question or interest. For whatever reason, a man may become dissatisfied and seek for his own explanations. He may have a conversion … Continue reading →

Some men return to their past, so that new forces may arise for the reconquest ~ J. Evola
Par l'espace, l'univers me comprend et m'engloutit comme un point ; par la penseé, je le comprends.~ Pascal
A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace. ~ Confucius
Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi: in interiore hominis habitat veritas. ~ St. Augustine
A man of talent is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot hit, but the man of genius is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot see. ~ Schopenhauer
To live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often. ~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
I believe in being free, acquiring knowledge, and telling the truth. ~ H. L. Mencken
On se lasse de penser, et même d'agir; jamais on ne se lasse d'aimer. ~ Auguste Comte
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson
The divine sleeps in the rock, breathes in the plant, dreams in the animal, and wakes in man. ~ old Nordic adage
The strong man strikes only when it is absolutely necessary, and then nothing stops him. ~ Vilfredo Pareto
Pour l’homme de droite, être libre ne consiste pas à faire ce que l’on veut, mais à faire ce qui est conforme à l’ordre naturel voulu par Dieu.
Very few battles are lost physically. Battles are lost almost always morally; the real victor like the real loser is the one who believes he is. ~ Joseph de Maistre