Gornahoor has conducted a number of thought exercises, designed to aid the aspirant in “mental fasting”, a discipline of dropping old thoughts and thought-patterns or memes (compulsions). These exercises involve recovering a sense of Self that is already there, or (as it was put), laying aside the chain-mail of discursive … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Prolegomena to any Future Tradition
As a thought experiment, we shall attempt, in several posts, to specify the characteristics of what Tradition in the West will have to look like, based on the 400+ preceding posts. In particular, we will look at the following elements: Foundation External structure Internal Structure Practical Dualism These characteristics will … Continue reading
Fight over Origins
Julius Evola opens the chapter The Arctic Myth from Il mito del sangue by describing the state of prehistoric research: Oswald Menghin, rector of the University of Vienna, wrote these characteristic words, “More than any other discipline, the science of prehistory is being brought back, and still more must be … Continue reading
The Makropoulous Affair
Janacek’s famous opera, The_Makropulos_Affair centers around the discovery of a secret elixir which can actually grant the brewer immortality. Continue reading
Burn Notice
About a spy who receives a “burn notice”, that is, he is excommunicated, in the original sense of the world, from his spiritual community without explanation. He is thrown into the world and left without any identity, assets, or resources, basically turned into an outlaw. Continue reading
Order and the Soul
Picking up on the theme of Order and Chaos from the previous post, I thought it might be of interest to explicate Plato’s concept of an ordered soul in The Republic. For Plato, the soul (psyche) is composed of three main faculties – the epithumetikon, the thumoeides, and the logistikon. … Continue reading
Tilting at Windmills
The real difficulty [in understanding metaphysics] is the mental assimilation needed to arrive at this result; there are certainly many minds that are quite incapable of it, and it is easy to gauge how far this effort transcends the scope of mere works of erudition. There is only one really profitable of studying doctrines: in order to be understood they must be studied so to speak “from the inside” Continue reading
Subterranean History
On various occasions we have insisted on the necessity of a radical revision of methods and criteria with which, in the order of common teaching and of that culture that claims to be serious, history is made. We demonstrated that history of true history does not grasp that the two … Continue reading