Training in esoteric psychology not only enables us to understand our own inner natures, but also provides a key to understanding much about how the world works. Continue reading →

Vico identifies three customs of all nations: religion, marriage, funerals, which are reinforced by religious practices. Otherwise, the world would return to a brutish state and again become a wilderness. Continue reading →

Relying on the best of recent biblical exegesis, Fr. Joseph Ratzinger provides interesting details regarding the actual birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. He avoids the sentimentalism often surrounding the Christmas story, and instead brings out its essential meaning. Interested readers can consult the book. What I prefer to focus on … Continue reading →

Contemporary Western art cannot capture the ideal content of life for the simple reason that it itself has lost it. In the sphere of creative work we see in the West the same alteration in the three supremacies. In the Middle Ages unfettered art does not exist; everything is subordinated to mysticism. Continue reading →

Philosopher The Philosopher, in the Traditional sense, is a lover of Wisdom, which is the intuitive knowledge of the Ideas. The goal of the Philosopher is, then, to be a Wise Man, or Sage. His method is the examined life, or self-knowledge, which differs from the natural knowledge of the … Continue reading →

The center of the True Man transcends the soul life, which is experienced as exterior to himself, just as much so as is the exterior world of the trees, birds, mountains, and oceans. Continue reading →

Let us be clear. The Primordial State is not a “state of nature” as in Rousseau, but rather of supernature. But if in the Primordial State man lives in harmony with nature and the divine, with a direct awareness of God in his psyche as his life force, and with … Continue reading →

There is an intuitive awareness of God and the universal order by clairvoyant vision, just as we now recognize a tree or a mountain by direct experience. Thinking is regarded as another sense, along with sight, hearing, touch or taste. Discursive thought — of the “yes” and the “no”, of the “good” and the “evil” — is not present. Instead, thoughts are experienced as voices from the celestial hierarchies (gods or angels) or communications from ancestors or as commands from rulers. Continue reading →