Behind the Mongolian influence that still affects social life even in modern times there lies Atlantis with its grand vision of unity gazing heavenwards to the Great Spirit and with its priest-kings who ruled the peoples with unrestricted power like higher beings. Continue reading
The dissolution of the Mongolian realm took place in silence, almost uncannily. Hollowed out as though by termites the colossus still stood for a number of decades merely because in an Asia weakened by what had passed there was nothing to take its place. Finally, almost without any external inducement, it collapsed and fell to dust. Continue reading
There was a deeper reason for the ending of the Mongolian invasions after the Battle of Legnica in the 13th century. The spiritual work cultivated by the Scholastics and the mystics at that time led to the development of a strong spiritual force that spread out over the whole of Europe Continue reading
Attila was known to his people as the “Heavenly Son” and the Chinese Emperor was worshipped as the “Son of Heaven”. Continue reading
The denial of the immateriality of the soul is a misuse of intelligence. Continue reading
It is our desire and aim to recognize out of knowledge that the world has meaning, significance and purpose, and that the world is not filled merely with evil and degeneration. It is our aim to realize through direct knowledge that the world has meaning. Continue reading
Under Constantine’s rule, Rome became more Christian. Over the next few centuries, some significant leaders brought Christianity to most of Europe. Christmas day was significant in these events. Clovis (466-511) Clovis was the first of the 40 kings of France; he united all the Frankish tribes under one ruler. He … Continue reading
the greatest miracle of Christianity was succeeding in asserting itself among the European peoples, even taking account the decadence into which numerous traditions of these peoples had plunged. Medieval civilisation would be inconceivable, without phenomena such as the appearance of the great Knightly orders, Thomism, a certain mysticism of a high level (e.g., Meister Eckhart) Continue reading
Happy wife, happy life. ~ old wives’ tale The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want? ~ Sigmund Freud On se lasse de penser, … Continue reading
These tales were not told in a church, where things must be spoken of with the proper frame of mind and suitable words. Nor were they held in schools of the philosophers, where a sense of propriety is required. But they were told in a garden, in a place suited for pleasure, in the presence of young people, who were nevertheless mature and not easily misled by stories. Continue reading