Positivists will always acknowledge the close relation between their own system and the memorable effort of medieval Catholicism. In offering for the acceptance of Humanity a new organization of life, we would not dissociate it with all that has gone before. On the contrary, it is our boast that we are but proposing for her maturity the accomplishment of the noble effort of her youth, an effort made when intellectual and social conditions precluded the possibility of success. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2011
I had too much to Dream last Night
I had a dream last night that has left me bemused. Without going into what happened before, most of which I have immediately forgotten, the dream ended with a brief conversation with a friend at a café. I was explaining to her that she had two ways to look at the world. Continue reading
Catching our Breath
The fool does more harm by his ignorance than the wicked man by his wickedness. ~ Al-Ghazali It is time for a recap what has been accomplished thus far in our project to determine the lineament of the Western Tradition, which we claim is as real and as important as … Continue reading
Charting the Course
Let the dead bury the dead. I shall not dispute those who maintain a negative attitude toward the religious principle. I shall not argue with the contemporary opponents of religion, because they are right. I say that those who reject religion are right because the contemporary state of religion calls … Continue reading
Unweaving the Web of God
From Chapter 3, The Empress, Meditations on the Tarot. But it so happens that in human consciousness one separates the inseparable – in forgetting the unity. One takes a branch of the tree and cultivates it as if exists without the trunk. The branch can have a long life, but … Continue reading
The Spiritual Regeneration of the World
it is the man of vision, the man of action, who understands and engages in the greater and lesser battles who will bring it about. The world is not awaiting a new theory, since there is nothing new under the sun. Continue reading