Search Results for: The Individual and the Becoming of the World
Keeping Warm: David and Abishag
The dream will be fulfilled when the Anima stays and unites with me in consciousness. She will not leave me alone with the texts, but we will each know them in our own way. Then we begin the journey. Continue reading
Sacred Science 102: The Self and the Ego
Guide to Chapter 2, The Self and the Ego, from Man and his Becoming. Continue reading
Defects and Accidents
Most contemporary thought in the West consider the individual to be the entire the human being, and the understanding of the “Person” is restricted to the individual. Continue reading
Principle and Action 3
The internal logic corroborates instead the lesson here adopted. Non-knowing and non-desiring (in the sense of discursive knowing and the desiring of the individual) are the traits repeatedly attributed to the True Man of the Tao Te Ching which in him are virtues insofar as they would be the opposite in laymen and the common people Continue reading
Civilizations of Space and Civilizations of Time
The remaining traces, often still only in stone, of some of the great civilizations of the origins often contain a rarely noticed meaning. In the face of what remains of the most ancient Greco-Roman world and then that of Egypt, Persia, China, eventually reaching the mysterious and mute megalithic monuments … Continue reading
Spiritual Man and the Tyrant
The highly intelligent are less interested in success by worldly standards and are more attracted to abstract thinking. In other words, they take the water path rather than the earth path. Continue reading
Intellectuality and Spirituality Redux
A mystery cannot be resolved intellectually. Unless an arcane teaching leads to, or elicits, or acts as the midwife to, a spiritual transformation, it has not been understood. Continue reading
Primer on Tradition and its Future
The ignorant are humble since they know that they do not know. The intelligent are humble because they understand how difficult it is to know something. But the half-smart are so absolutely certain about everything. ~ cjs Executive Summary In the Reign of Quantity, Rene Guenon describes two opponents of … Continue reading
Predestination and Predilection
- Each person comes into the world with a set of qualities (his karmic inheritance).
- Beyond those innate qualities, his life’s path is to actualize the possibilities open to him (his dharma path).
- He enters the world process at a time, place, and relationships suitable for him.
Unknowing and True Will
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