This describes the descent of the unconditioned Self through all the states of the human being, from the Buddhi, through the Manas, Causal Body, Ego, Subtle Body, and Gross Body. Continue reading →

Dante acknowledges his connection to Virgil and even into Purgatory. Virgil is gone before Dante could reach the Earthly Paradise, or the Primordial State. This is a state of supernatural happiness. However, it is still not yet the Beatific Vision. Continue reading →

The Person exists in multiple states of being, of which the human state is but one of them. Rene Guenon explains it like this: almost everything that is said theologically of the angels can also be said metaphysically of the higher states of the being. Continue reading →

I am worm, I am slave, I am king, I am God. ~ Gabriel Derjavine The “to be silent” therefore precedes the “to know”, the “to will” and the “to dare”. This is why the Pythagorean school prescribed five years silence to beginners or “hearers”. One dared to speak there … Continue reading →

the suffering inside the Church “would have originated not from external enemies, but from within the same Church” … ~ Pope Benedict XVI The title was motivated by the idea that, as bad as things seem today, things were bad in yesteryear. So I used the story of Abraham from … Continue reading →

A religious factor is necessary as the background for a true heroic conception of life that must be essential for our political alignment. It is necessary to feel in oneself the evidence that there is a higher life beyond this terrestrial life, because only those who feel this way possess … Continue reading →

Every myth expresses, in a form narrated for a particular case, an eternal idea, which will be intuitively recognised by him who re-experiences the content of the myth. Continue reading →

Much ink (virtual and real) has been spilled regarding the conversion of Valentin Tomberg from Anthroposophy to Roman Catholicism. Yet, as we saw in the conversion of Rene Guenon, such a move cannot be understood in the conventional sense as the rejection of one thing and the adoption of another. … 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 →

As we close in on the 1001 posts at which point Gornahoor will come to its natural end, it is time to focus more clearly on its goals. At the current pace, that end will come in about 10 to 12 months. There are other projects envisioned beyond that, which … Continue reading →