He revived in our Christian consciousness ancient and eternal truths, but under new names: the fundamental truth about collective essence of the World Soul and the consummate truth about the life of the dead. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Vladimir Solovyov
Old men shall dream dreams
And it will come to pass after these things that I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams and your young men shall see visions. (Joel 2:28) Mundus Imaginalis Elijah’s Dream The visionary Emmanuel Swedenborg … Continue reading
Entities and Ideas
The world we know is only a phenomenon for us and in us; it is our representation. To place it wholly outside ourselves, as something absolutely autonomous and independent of ourselves is a natural illusion. Continue reading
The Rights of Man: Life
Ever since the French Revolution, there has been much discussed about the so-called rights of man. Over time, this discussion has confounded natural rights with civil rights, i.e., the rights accorded by law to a citizen, and goods, such as food, medicine, education, which are the products of human activity. … Continue reading
The Poet and the Sacred
The most ancient Traditions are expressed in the form of poetry as, for example, in the Hindu Mahabharata, which includes the Bhagavad Gita, or the poems of Homer. These poems were originally sung, rather than read, by the priests or wandering cantors. As we have pointed out, poetry reaches a … Continue reading
Creativity, Nonduality, Inspiration
You hear — you do not seek; you take — and do not ask who gives: a thought suddenly flashes up like lightning, it comes as a necessity, without hesitation — I have never had any choice in the matter. There is an ecstasy so great that the immense strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears during which one does not know whether one is coming or going. ~ Nietzsche Continue reading
Three Stages of Development
In old Europe human life received its ideal content from the Catholic faith, on the one hand, and from knightly feudalism on the other ~ Vladimir Solovyov. Continue reading
Development of Feeling
Contemporary Western art cannot capture the ideal content of life for the simple reason that it itself has lost it. In the sphere of creative work we see in the West the same alteration in the three supremacies. In the Middle Ages unfettered art does not exist; everything is subordinated to mysticism. Continue reading
The Development of Mind
genuine knowledge is knowledge of the Whole, or the One in Neoplatonic terms, or the Absolute, the Infinite, or the Tao. This form of knowledge is Gnosis and is superior to Reason. Continue reading
Development of the Will
A person desires not only material existence, which is provided by economic society, and not only lawful existence, which is given to him by political society, but he desires as well an absolute existence, one that is complete and eternal. Continue reading