It’s October, and I am thinking, inexorably, of the Protestant Reformation, where my spiritual roots lie. In order to do those roots justice (it does no good to saw them in two), I have to understand the contention made against the Church of the West, the Latin Roman Catholic Church. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Might, Cunning, Justice
In The Wire there is no justice, only might and cunning. Continue reading
Errors of Conception
Anyone who wants to benefit from the Law of Exception must first achieve a victory over himself, over his own interior world, before he will be able to overcome the ‘World’ and — by doing so — escape from the General Law. ~ Boris Mouravieff Conception is defined as the … Continue reading
Nietzsche and Being
The problem of the forgetting of Being cannot be resolved philosophically or scientifically, but only spiritually and metaphysically. We started Gornahoor first of all as an exploration in the recovery of Tradition in the West. Since Tradition is the opposite of modernity, this led to an attempt to forge a … Continue reading
The Kingdom of Heaven
So long as we are manfully engaged in the holy warfare of ascetic or practical philosophy we retain with us the Logos, who in the form of the commandments came from the Father into this world. But when we are released from our ascetic struggle with the passions and are declared victor over both them and the demons, we pass, by means of contemplation, to gnostic philosophy; in this way we allow the Logos mystically to leave the world again and make his way to the Father. Continue reading
Prominent Attorney Marries Actor
In the olden days, the warrior, particularly if he was also a political leader, was glorified. This was embodied in the ideal of the nine worthies. There are no current figures that approach that ideal, and more recent candidates are now too outré to extend the list to include three modern worthies. The worthies represent the state of the fallen world, in which it is necessary to toil and do battle against evil. Continue reading