This will, I hope, be an ongoing series of quotations from Josephin Peladan’s How to become a Mage (Comment on devient Mage). Perhaps there is still a chance to form young men with a free mind, not stuck in useless propaganda hoary with age. The art of life doesn’t consist … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Aghori of the Mind
Aleister Crowley proposed an interesting exercise to overcome dualist thinking and an inflexible frozen identity, which I tried more than 20 years ago. The method is to do the mental equivalent of what the Aghori do in the flesh. Thus we learn non-attachment to our individual and particularistic points of … Continue reading
Nothing new under the Sun
The idiot simpliciter is a man who cannot follow a logical argument. The idiot savant is a man who can say the words, without understanding what they mean. And the useful idiot is the man who does someone else’s dirty work in the mistaken belief he is working towards his own ends. Continue reading
Primordial Solar Monotheism
The primordial religion of 15,000 BC would have therefore been solar and permeated by the sense of a universal law of eternal return, of death and rebirth. Like the light, so also the life of men has its “year”, its perennial dying and rebirthing. Continue reading
An Interpretation of Genesis
Many Christians assume a strongly “literal” stance upon the first chapter of Genesis. It should go without saying that assuming Genesis 1 to have a perspective like a newspaper is outside of the bounds of any known form of traditionalism, conceivable or not – God did not dictate this to … Continue reading
The Duty of the Wise Man
The fundamental attitude of the Courtier was to do everything with a type of style and grace done with a certain nonchalance that made the difficult seem effortless. Castiglione coined a new word for this: Sprezzatura. Continue reading
Germanic Rome
This translation is from the chapter on the theories of Count de Gobineau from Il mito del sangue, (The Myth of Blood). Although there is much to be said about this passage, I’ll leave it to the readers to draw out some conclusions. In some respects Gobineau agrees with Evola: … Continue reading
Aztecs and Human Sacrifice
Thus “family values” do not refer to the bourgeois nuclear family as commonly assumed today. The Vedas show that the “family” encompasses generations. Continue reading
Good Government
This is a thought experiment based on Rosenstock-Huessy‘s comments in I Am an Impure Thinker. Summarized, they are to the effect that the modern world is a place that likes to “divide time, & conquer space”. Hence our obsession with speed and time, as if we were racing against death. … Continue reading
Eating your way to nondual awareness
While Cologero is working on his little project and I am busily translating Sintesi, I’ll toss out this short post regarding the Aghori practice of cannibalism. Apparently, in order to reach nondual consciousness, the Agori practice the consumption and manipulation of semen, menstrual blood, faeces, and urine, all that we … Continue reading