⇐ Part I Part III ⇒ This is the second installment from Guido De Giorgio‘s chapter on the priestly caste from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition]. He sees the process of the degeneration of the castes as beginning, not from the revolt of the Kshatriya, but rather from the … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2013
News on President’s Day
The USA changed from a culture of character to a culture of personality. The effect is that people now admire movie and rock stars, athletes, and those who put on the best show. The new gospel seems to be The vulgar shall inherit the earth. Continue reading
A Pause at the Hexad
There is a natural pause over the Hexad: it represents, in many ways, a repetition of the Monad, being halfway in between 1 & 10. The Hexad, or Seal of Solomon, reminds us that even the Monad itself is not original, but ab-original, because Iamblichus never deals with the Number … Continue reading
The Synthesis of All Traditions
It is true that many vestiges of a forgotten past are coming out of the earth in our age, and perhaps not without reason. ~ Rene Guenon, Traditional Forms and Cosmic Cycles Guenon wrote that well before the discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library. The … Continue reading
God Made a Shudra
During the Super Bowl they aired a car commercial called “God Made a Farmer”. It was a pleasant reminder that in this age of revolt, there is still a class of Americans, however tiny, that does manual labor every day with no hope of “career building”, and is somewhat respected … Continue reading
Living the Dream
Your life is what remains after you die and that life is eternal. That, then, is the life you are creating and there can be no doubt about it. Truth resides in the interior of man, hence restoration must begin in the interior. Therefore, changing the persons, places, conditions, and events of our outer life will amount to nothing if we don’t first address the disorder in our inner life. Continue reading
The Establishment of a Traditional Society: Priests
Part II ⇒ In La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition], Guido De Giorgio dedicates a section to the question of the reestablishment of a traditional society. It includes four chapters: The Priests, The Warriors, The Workers, and The King. This is the first part of the chapter on the priests. … Continue reading
Hexad
The Hexad is the first perfect number: it arises, by multiplication (rather than addition) from the Dyad and the Triad, and is hence termed “marriage” (whereas the Pentad is androgynous). That is, the Hexad unifies Male-Female through “blending” and harmony, rather than sticking them together through addition in the Pentad, … Continue reading
Absolute Man, Absolute Woman
A man approaches to this Ideal not by eliminating the feminine principle but rather by uniting with it in the Spiritual Marriage. Continue reading
The Coronation of the King
Signs of decline: substitution of feeling for knowing as a basis for judgment; altruism will take the place of that of justice; words will be used for their emotive effect than as the vehicle of thought Continue reading