The debate with the old workman continues, and he assures Peter he is no demagogue: I am not such a fool in my old age that, understanding what is true, I should deny it for the favor of the rabble. Niceta proposes that Peter be the master of the debate, … Continue reading →

For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. In the madness of materialism the West delivers its great thinkers to the graveyard of thoughts, and tramples those in the dirt, who wish to abjure … Continue reading →

My teachings are very easy to understand and to practice; yet there is no one in the world who is able either to understand or to practice them. This is because my teachings have an originating principle and arise from an integrated system. This is not understood, so I am unknown. ~ Lao Tzu Continue reading →

The internal logic corroborates instead the lesson here adopted. Non-knowing and non-desiring (in the sense of discursive knowing and the desiring of the individual) are the traits repeatedly attributed to the True Man of the Tao Te Ching which in him are virtues insofar as they would be the opposite in laymen and the common people Continue reading →

The Emperor Fohi collected the metaphysical and cosmogonic mysteries of the Primordial Tradition under the title I Ching. The set of 64 symbols contains the mysteries and describes how to reach higher stages. Continue reading →

What must I do to be saved? ~ Acts 16:30 Continue reading →

The final, and most difficult constraint to overcome, is ignorance. As a rational animal, there is ultimately one choice, the most important choice: the choice between good and evil. Since freedom is to act in accordance to one’s true nature as rational, only choosing the “good” is a free choice. Continue reading →

These concerns about benevolence and righteousness recall a man who beats a drum while searching for a fleeing son, with the only effect of making him flee even further… Unite your influence to that of the Principle rather than imposing artificial virtues, and you will be able to achieve something. Continue reading →

A living light endangered high antiquity, but some of its rays have reached us. To us it seems as if the Ancients lived in darkness because we see them through the thick fog from which we are emerging. Man is a child born at midnight: when he sees the sun rise, he believes that yesterday never existed Continue reading →

Chuang Tzu makes clear that one can admit the principle of a universal regulator (from which the principle of every unity, family, people, etc. derives through participation) but on condition that one does not make a distinct personal being out of what is intended “as an influence without a comprehensible form” Continue reading →