It has been difficult for men, at all times and amid the most varied religious constellations, to overcome the inertia of material nature and to achieve the highest calling. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Impulse and Instinct: The Earth Race
Unlike the Demetrians, who developed agriculture, the Tellurians were associated with the natural flora and fauna of the marshy lowlands, as well as swamp cults. Continue reading
Esoteric Platonism
God bears in the intelligible world to reason and its objects the same relation which the sun bears in the visible world to sight and its objects. ~ Plato, Republic Continue reading
Shadows and Reflections: The Lunar Race
The task of human intelligence is to liberate itself from the magical enchantment which separates it from spontaneous wisdom … to arrive at intuition. Continue reading
The Demetrian Race
The other “spiritual races” of the cycle, to which our contemporaries belong, have as their premise a division and a separation of the two elements of “spirituality” and “virility”, and also “transcendence” and “humanity”, that are synthetically united in the solar race. First of all, we point to the lunar … Continue reading
Esoteric Stoicism
Love becomes the highest goal, even higher than apatheia. Love, in this sense, is more than worldly friendship or family affection; it is a spiritual love. The overcoming of negative emotions, the state of apatheia, is preparation for this higher stage. Continue reading