The would-be initiate must bring with him a certain measure of courage and fearlessness. He must positively go out of his way to find opportunities for developing these virtues. His training should provide for their systematic cultivation. In this respect, life itself is a good school — possibly the best … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2010
The issue with Christianity
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
The Conversion of Rene Guenon
In the article “Conversions”, included in the collection Initiation and Spiritual Realization, he explains that the word can be taken in two totally different senses. Continue reading
Guenon and Tradition
Tradition, in the Guenonian sense, has nothing to do with the past in itself. Just because it happened yesterday does not make it therefore traditional. And it is not a reaction against modernity, nor a nostalgia for the past. Its expression today may appear that way, but that is because … Continue reading
Nietzsche and life-affirming religion
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
Manu: The kingdom will surely perish
From the laws of Manu. Continue reading