Why should we suppose there are “laws of physics”? Does physics account for the totality of reality? Is a scientific law anything other than a clever creation of the human mind? Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2009
The Nature of Error
The nature of error is not to know itself as error, whereas the nature of truth is to posit itself as consciousness of truth, while knowing at the same time error as error. Julius Evola, from Pagan Imperialism
The Primary Causal Agent
The primary causal agent is always an idea become person, with a will that pursues determinate ends—a cognizant will that has a program to realize a concrete thought, effective in history. … The few, in so far as they were the conscience and the will of an epoch, were the … Continue reading
Only the spirit exists
It is not only the case that we reject the putative dualism between matter and spirit, we annul the antithesis in the synthesis of the spirit. Only the spirit exists, nothing else, not you, not this room, not the things and the objects that pass before us in the fantastic … Continue reading
Know thyself — why?
Thales the Milesian held that self-knowledge is the beginning of every virtue … The man who knows himself knows that he is a rational, spiritual being, possessing the power of free choice and self-control, and hence religious, social, ethical, and in his spiritual nature, immortal. ~ St. Nectarios, Metropolitan of … Continue reading