The seven churches can also be imagined as representing different historical epochs. Each of the churches has a positive and a negative element. These still live in every human being, regardless of the epoch. Our task is to develop the positive elements and overcome the negative elements. Continue reading →

I like to maintain a library of old books. There is great pleasure in rethinking forgotten thoughts and ideas. Continue reading →

This means that on the Middle Path, the return to God, the spiritual man must act first before he fully understands. On the upward path, Will changes from “my will” to “thy will” be done. Continue reading →

There is a way out that takes us beyond rationality and pure reason; it consists in the fact that philosophy is determined by an act of noumenal will. Continue reading →

How to be a man of Tradition in the modern world. Just a few very difficult steps. Continue reading →

A mystery cannot be resolved intellectually. Unless an arcane teaching leads to, or elicits, or acts as the midwife to, a spiritual transformation, it has not been understood. Continue reading →

The next generation of American Indians could radically transform scientific knowledge by grounding themselves in traditional knowledge about the world and demonstrating how everything is connected to everything else. Advocacy of this idea would involve showing how personality and a sense of purpose must become part of the knowledge that … Continue reading →

So the solution to the lack of gnosis is not to read another book or study a philosopher on-line; these are pointless without restraining passions and overcoming evil habits. The Fathers described eight provocations that keep us in bondage: gluttony, lust, greed, anger, depression, boredom, vanity, and pride. Continue reading →

Propaganda must become as natural as air or food. It must proceed by psychological inhibition and the least possible shock. The individual is then able to declare in all honesty that no such thing as propaganda exists. Continue reading →

The body cannot be understood as a piece of matter, but rather as a non-dual body/soul/spirit complex. Continue reading →