From Chapter II, “Principles”, of Mes Idées Politiques, by Charles Maurras. Yes sir, yes ma’am, because “speech is hard”, its efficacy will be sweet; because the book is “bitter to the tongue”, it will be invigorating and healing. The signposts raised up on the road don’t show their direction in … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2012
I’m Just a Girl
Pitbull A few years ago I was watching an Argentinian movie about the Tango with Cologero. The main character, the aging movie director, was seducing a young dancer. He told her, “Sometimes I feel like a lion wandering aimlessly in the savanna.” Of course, that turned into a teaching moment. … Continue reading
The Anti-Christ & the Liberal-Democratic Order
In an interesting turn of phrase, St. Paul indicates in Thessalonians 2 that the Anti-Christ will come, not as an idol, but as an iconoclast: “He who opposes and exalts himself against everything that is called God and religion, just as he will sit in the Temple of God, as … Continue reading
Conditions of Corporeal Manifestation
There are five conditions which corporeal existence is subject to: space, time, matter, form, and life. A body is a material form living in time and space. Continue reading
Virtual and Real Metaphyics
Metaphysics is an important element of all Traditions. By that we mean an exact science, as precise as mathematics, and as such, it is neither a speculative system nor a matter for philosophical debate. The fundamental tenet of metaphysics is that there are principles that determine or explain the hidden … Continue reading
Letters from Guenon to Guido de Giorgio (VII)
What he takes for strength and lucidity, to our eyes impairs the value of too extensive knowledge. We are frightened that in a hundred small tidy pages, he claims to reveal the ultimate knowledge on the swastika, Aum and Manu, the luz and the Shekinah, the Graal, the Mages, and the Old Man of the Mountain, and enigmas without number. Even if he divines something correct here or there, what does the result matter without demonstration? And the proof that there is only one symbolic among the diversity of religions and philosophies? Continue reading
His Political Ideas
Ideas belong to no one; they are what they are. ~ Charles Maurras, My Political Ideas Tonight, I’m outlining the plan for translating a series of essays by Charles Maurras. This fulfills a promise and responds to a challenge. The promise was made in the comments section of Taki’s Magazine … Continue reading
Just not with You
Prairie dogs are not real life. Continue reading
Techniques of Prayer
With the initial disclaimer that (in the Christian religion) one must beware of “over-systematizing” the grace of God into specific techniques, the following is shared for the possible benefit of readers who are interested in esoteric Christianity. Boris Mouravieff claims that there is a collection of “scripts” called the Golden … Continue reading
Nietzsche and the Gospel of Buddhism
From the thirteenth to the twentieth century one can follow the progressive decay of life: the ever fainter expression of the creative will, loosening social integration, the substitution of contract for status, the advancement of material and moral to the exclusion of spiritual values, the decline of vision, up to this present hour of pure chaos, when life and art are evidence of centuries of aimlessness. Continue reading