First and foremost, I will tell you who should work in this work, and when, and by what means: and what discretion you shall have in it. If you ask me who shall work thus, I answer you—all who have forsaken the world in a true will. ~ The Cloud … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2015
The Way of Living Thought (II)
This is Part 2 of two parts of an article that originally appeared in EreticaMente as La via del pensiero vivente come controparte operativa del pensiero di Julius Evola by Fabio Mazza. It is translated and published with the permission of the author. Massimo Scaligero was a personal friend to … Continue reading
Twilight of the Gods
While Guenon was looking to recover the primordial Ur-Tradition, New Age writers like Jane Roberts took Nietzsche’s idea of the Twilight of the Gods as the point of departure. As her parable in the epigraph shows, the old gods have become senile. It’s not that they are merely ineffective, but, on the contrary, when they take action, people die. Continue reading
The Way of Living Thought (I)
This is Part 1 of two parts of an article that originally appeared in EreticaMente as La via del pensiero vivente come controparte operativa del pensiero di Julius Evola by Fabio Mazza. It is translated and published with the permission of the author. Julius Evola was involved with various anthroposophists, … Continue reading
Vanilla Tradition
Living Dangerously There are two directions for future developments of Tradition, based on how seriously one takes Guenon’s view of the modern world. Specifically, he regarded it as an “illusion”, i.e., totally false, and it would dissipate as soon as the illusion evaporated. That means he opposed its very foundations, … Continue reading
The Superstition of Reason
The only way out this impasse is not to partake of the fighting in the rubble and ruin of the Western mental landscape, which is at this point dominated by the bastards of Reason in various titanic forms. Continue reading
The Esoteric Path
It would be better to be able to take as its basis a Western organization already enjoying an effective existence. It seems quite clear that there is now but one organization in the West that is of a traditional character and that has preserved a doctrine that could serve as an appropriate basis for the work in question. Continue reading
The Exoteric Path
If our contemporaries as a whole could see what it is that is guiding them and where they are really going, the modern world would at once cease to exist as such. Continue reading