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Confronting World Traditions

Posted on 2013-10-03 by Cologero

We must first become Wise like Plato, then Awake like Buddha, and finally overcome death like Christ. Continue reading →

Letter from Guenon to AKC 24VI1935

Posted on 2013-08-05 by Cologero

It is well understood that all people are or have been in possession of traditions derived from a single source, but in a more or less distinct way. Continue reading →

Round Table: Ossendowski, Guenon, Maritain

Posted on 2013-06-23 by Cologero

In 1924, Rene Guenon, Ferdynand Ossendowski, and Jacques Maritain met for a round table discussion in Paris, hosted by Frederic Lefevre. These are the notes from that meeting, originally published in the 26 July 1924 issue of “Les nouvelles littéraires”. Continue reading →

Realization in the Pre-Socratics: Rene Guenon and Peter Kingsley, Some Observations

Posted on 2013-01-30 by Frater M

In the final chapter of Rene Guenon’s “Metaphysical Principles of Calculus” he concludes his exposition dedicating the chapter to the paradoxes of the Eleatic, Zeno, disciple of Parmenides. Guenon’s position is that Zeno’s paradoxes are not examples of an emerging scientific “rationalism” as the academic position mostly holds, but a … Continue reading →

Sign of the Times

Posted on 2013-01-09 by Cologero

We must be ready for an immense event in the divine order which we are travelling towards with an accelerated speed that must astound all those who watch. Awesome oracles have already pronounced that the time is now. Continue reading →

Some Observations Concerning Guenon, Initiation, and Spiritual Exercises

Posted on 2013-01-05 by Frater M

All that exists potentially is advanced to actuality by the agency of something which is actually what the other is potentially: the partially potential by that which is actual in the same partial respect, and the wholly potential by the wholly actual — Proclus, Metaphysical Elements, Proposition 77 Every so … Continue reading →

The Truth is far from Suspected

Posted on 2013-01-02 by Cologero

Be assured, savants of the world, it is not in disdaining the sacred books of nations that you show your knowledge, it is in explaining them. One cannot write a history without monuments and that of the world is no exception. These books are the veritable archives wherein its deeds … Continue reading →

The Mystery of Sleep

Posted on 2012-12-27 by Cologero

Sleep is not the mystery because it is the normal state of nature. The real mystery is awakening. Continue reading →

Eastern Wisdom and Western Knowledge

Posted on 2012-10-27 by Cologero

Rene Guenon is one of the few writers of our time whose work is really of importance … he stands for the primacy of pure metaphysics over all other forms of knowledge Continue reading →

Letters from Guenon to Guido de Giorgio (VIII)

Posted on 2012-10-08 by Cologero

I was happy to see that you are completely in agreement with everything that I wrote in my last book; furthermore, the contrary would have really astonished me. The coincidences that you pointed out to me with the things that you yourself had written earlier are actually very remarkable; these agreements are certainly not the result of chance (besides which, I don’t believe at all). Continue reading →

Some men return to their past, so that new forces may arise for the reconquest ~ J. Evola
Par l'espace, l'univers me comprend et m'engloutit comme un point ; par la penseé, je le comprends.~ Pascal
A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace. ~ Confucius
Noli foras ire, in te ipsum redi: in interiore hominis habitat veritas. ~ St. Augustine
A man of talent is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot hit, but the man of genius is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot see. ~ Schopenhauer
To live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often. ~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
I believe in being free, acquiring knowledge, and telling the truth. ~ H. L. Mencken
On se lasse de penser, et même d'agir; jamais on ne se lasse d'aimer. ~ Auguste Comte
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson
The divine sleeps in the rock, breathes in the plant, dreams in the animal, and wakes in man. ~ old Nordic adage
The strong man strikes only when it is absolutely necessary, and then nothing stops him. ~ Vilfredo Pareto
Pour l’homme de droite, être libre ne consiste pas à faire ce que l’on veut, mais à faire ce qui est conforme à l’ordre naturel voulu par Dieu.
Very few battles are lost physically. Battles are lost almost always morally; the real victor like the real loser is the one who believes he is. ~ Joseph de Maistre