Cologero writes: There is nothing here to oppose effective rites and rituals, or even the acts of a traditional science. After all, the physical world itself is a symbol, a reflection, of the metaphysical. But that is a topic in itself. From the writings of the UR Group: Yet it … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition (4)
The purely exterior literary merits that common men [volgo], the profanum vulgus [unholy rabble], admire in Dante have no importance and would nullify the value of the Comedy in the very eyes of Dante and of those who can and know how to understand the purpose for which the poem … Continue reading
Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition (3)
It is not easy to express this succession and fusion that must not be considered historically but on a plane where the symbolic values remain such even if unknown or misunderstood until a new light suddenly illuminates them and reveals them. For the two traditions which we discussing, Rome is … Continue reading
Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition (2)
If Virgil represents the ancient tradition and Beatrice the new tradition and if, at the threshold of the Terrestrial Paradise, Virgil disappears before Beatrice, Beatrice also disappears when the divine mystery is grasped by Dante in its immediate realization and what then remains, above and beyond the two traditions unified … Continue reading
Making the Modern Mind
Sometimes it helps to meditate on what is good by looking at the opposite, at least for those of us who only have “intimations of deprivation” and have not yet found our true center. This kind of “cautionary tale” meditation or meditating “by negative example” is very easy in Western … Continue reading
Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition
From La Tradizione Romana by Guido De Giorgio. The traditional gold vein of Rome in the living unity of the two forms supplementing each other in a perfect match and equilibrium, is found again in all its wholeness in Dante who was the first to reveal the mystery of Romanity. … Continue reading
Holy Rome, Eternal Rome
Before translating Evola’s review of a book by Maurras, we plan to provide a chapter from Guido de Giorgio’s La Tradizione Romana (The Roman Tradition) called “Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition.” De Giorgio is most certainly the only man to have collaborated with both Rene Guenon … Continue reading
The End of All our Exploring
And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time. Continue reading
Kalashnikov Dreams
They say you can’t dream of your own death. Last night I had a dream, though I now only remember the ending. My comrades and I were in an apartment; they were in the anteroom and I was sitting alone by the dining room table. A half-wall separated the two … Continue reading