The task of human intelligence is to liberate itself from the magical enchantment which separates it from spontaneous wisdom … to arrive at intuition. Continue reading
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Race and the Myth of the Origins of Rome I
In our day all of that is fantasy or superstition for many “serious” persons and many “critical” minds. The “facts” are the only things that count for them. The mythical traditions of the ancients have no value, or they have it only insofar as it is supposed that, here and there, they are confused reflections of real events. Continue reading
The Metaphysics of Knowing
Sense Knowledge Sense knowledge is known through the senses and mediated by thought. There are three inner aspects involved in knowing. Sensation. The senses apprehend an object Imagination. The mind forms and image of the object Intellect. The intellect knows what the object is What the intellect knows is the … Continue reading
The Rights of Man: Life
Ever since the French Revolution, there has been much discussed about the so-called rights of man. Over time, this discussion has confounded natural rights with civil rights, i.e., the rights accorded by law to a citizen, and goods, such as food, medicine, education, which are the products of human activity. … Continue reading
Vichara and Alchemical Marriage
When we try to shut out all the whims and fancies of our restless mind, and to concentrate on the one chosen for a definite purpose, the mind fights desperately in order to resist control. Continue reading
The Acting Person
The soul-body relation is intuitively given in the experience of man as a real being. In this respect the subordination of the system of integration of the human person to the transcendence of the person in the action is revelatory. Continue reading
From Virgil to Dante
The Middle Ages are so called because it represents the era between Antiquity and modernity. We can also regard it as the Traditional society between the Ancient traditional world and the coming Traditional society of the future. That the Middle Ages represent Tradition is beyond dispute. Now, there may be … Continue reading
Subterranean History
On various occasions we have insisted on the necessity of a radical revision of methods and criteria with which, in the order of common teaching and of that culture that claims to be serious, history is made. We demonstrated that history of true history does not grasp that the two … Continue reading
Angels and Demons
A complete understanding of the angelic hierarchy is possible only for the intellect that contains the form, that is, the idea of the angel, that is, it participates in the higher form. Continue reading