I chose to write on The Dark Cloud of Unknowing to illustrate something that is true that has been discussed here (that East & West are not divergent in Tradition). The author was an anonymous Englishman during the 14th century; ergo, a quintessential “Western” mystic on an isolated island in … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Silence, Rhythms, Forms
It is a monstrously ironical fact that the only civilization which professes to discount heredity and to put all its faith in environment is unique in having no positive environment to offer. ~ Martin Lings Speaking from the Heart Since we started the translation of La Tradizione Romana in the … Continue reading
The Establishment of a Traditional Society: Workers (III)
⇐ Part II Part IV ⇒ This is the third part of the chapter on the Workers from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition] by Guido De Giorgio. Here he describes how science changed the nature of work and displaced tradition. Hence, the corporations also originally represented modes of realization … Continue reading
Androids, Avatars, and Androphiles
Most people think in sentence fragments. The more educated can think in complete sentences, or more rarely, in paragraphs. Winding Down As we are getting close to the ¾ mark of 1001 posts, I have to think about wrapping things up. Just before #1001, I will reveal the secret meaning … Continue reading
The Philokalia’s Martial Character
“What struck me on the beach–and it struck me indeed, so that I staggered as at a blow–was that if the Eternal Principle had rested in that curved thorn I had carried about my neck across so many leagues, and if it now rested in the new thorn (perhaps the … Continue reading
The Establishment of a Traditional Society: Workers (II)
⇐ Part I Part III ⇒ This is second part of the chapter on the Workers from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition] by Guido De Giorgio. Here he describes the nature of work and art, and their relation to the divine. I have translated the root lavor- as labor … Continue reading