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The Metaphysical Principles of the Infintesimal Calculus
2015-05-09
As someone who awoke rather late to the importance of mathematics (whose general use for the esoteric student is not only helpful, but even necessary), I decided to read my first full…
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Multiplicity and Unity
2014-05-09
Analogously, we see this in the microcosm of our own mind. Our spirit manifests itself in a multiplicity of feelings, thoughts, and desires, while remaining one. This does not mean, however, that…
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Vichara and Alchemical Marriage
2013-05-09
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…
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The Tools of the Occult War (III)
2012-05-09
Tools 5 and 6 of the Occult War. In the Ricochet, Evola warns against causing divisions for particularistic reasons, particularly against another Tradition. Unfortunately, this is not uncommon today. He warns against…
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Absurdity in Discussion

Posted on 2010-04-03 by Cologero

Man comes from God; sin from man; ignorance and error, like pain and death, from sin; fallibility from ignorance; and from fallibility, absurdity in discussion. ~ Donoso Cortes Continue reading →

Nine worthies: Champions of Chivalry

Posted on 2010-03-25 by Cologero

The Worthies are archetypal and the symmetry of the scheme reflects the Medieval view of history and destiny of European man. The Old Law prepared the way for the New. The Pagan law created the Pax Romana that allowed the spread of the New Law. Continue reading →

Descarte’s Nightmare

Posted on 2010-03-14 by Cologero

The battle differentiates, selects, creates hierarchy; especially when – to use the traditional terms – it is not the lesser battle, but the greater battle; not the battle of man against man, or against the world, but the battle of the supernatural element of man against everything in him that … Continue reading →

Caste and Spirit

Posted on 2010-03-03 by Cologero

Caste refers to the division of society into functional and hierarchical classes reflecting the different characteristics of human individuals. “Caste” is often exclusively associated with the societal divisions of Hindu India, although the word originally referred to the feudal system in Portugal. Furthermore, George Dumezil documented the caste structure of … Continue reading →

The issue with Christianity

Posted on 2010-02-26 by Cologero

I had a different topic in mind, but I decided to address this thoughtful comment first: I think the issue some take with Christianity lies in the third of your criteria. The Christian religion seems to have been the fountainhead of a large number of subversive movements – though even … Continue reading →

Nietzsche and life-affirming religion

Posted on 2010-02-19 by Cologero

Nietzsche has done as much as anyone in undermining the Traditional spiritual roots of Western man in his division of religion into life-denying as exemplified in Christianity and life-affirming as exemplified in Paganism. The destruction of Christianity has not led to a life-affirming paganism, but rather to a paganism that … Continue reading →

The Flowering of European Civilisation

Posted on 2009-10-14 by Cologero

To the profound comprehension of this law of the intellectual generation of ideas, are due the marvels of Catholic civilisation. To that wonderful civilisation is due all that we admire and all that we see. Its theologians, even considered humanly, put to the blush modern and ancient philosophers; her doctors … Continue reading →

Roots of Western Civilisation

Posted on 2009-10-13 by Cologero

Among the many would-be “saviours” of Western civilisation, there are precious few who know exactly what they are supposed to preserve. For example, many prefer the values of the Enlightenment and praise scientific discovery; while that may be, in a restricted sense, one of the flowers, it is hardly the … 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