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  • The Beautiful Old Man

    The Beautiful Old Man

    For it is the venerable and mysterious Hermit who was master of the most intimate and most cherished dreams of my youth, as moreover he is the master of dreams for all youth in every country, who are enamoured by the call to seek the narrow gate and the hard way to the Divine. Name…

  • The Intellectual Challenge

    The Intellectual Challenge

    Knowledge of Eastern and Hermetic doctrines are necessary prerequisites for esoteric work. We focus on a few works although each one of them leads to many more. But this is no mere academic training with conferences, meetings, interest groups, and so on. Rather, such teachings must be verified in at least two ways. Can the…

  • Traditional Metaphysics

    Traditional Metaphysics

    This is the beginning of a slow motion translation, still in progress, of the fundamental texts of metaphysics as described by Rene Guenon.

  • Sleeping Through the Junta

    Sleeping Through the Junta

    The fulfilment of the “American Dream” is for many societies, especially traditional ones, an eschatological nightmare.

  • Year End Summary 2021

    Year End Summary 2021

    The year end statistics for 2021. The big surprise is the increase in female readers and those under 25.

  • Fall Schedule 2021

    Fall Schedule 2021

    We stress that the discussion is always based on practice. Our approach, the esoteric and traditional approach, is not to develop a model of a person, to “be” a person. The former is intellectual, the latter requires an ontological transformation of one’s state of being.

  • Reaching a Grand: 1000 posts

    Reaching a Grand: 1000 posts

    We reached 1000 posts yesterday. That is almost 1.3 million words, enough for at least 10 books or so. It’s been a wonderful experience. Writing makes ideas clearer than reading ever could.

  • Year End Summary 2020

    Year End Summary 2020

    On the many-coloured Hans Buenting Map (1581), our world looks like a flower; its three petals present the three continents of Europe, West Asia, Africa, united by the Holy Land. The map allows for a different reading, too: the flower is the faith of Christ and Our Lady, and the three petals are Islam, Catholicism…

  • A Solitary Man

    A Solitary Man

    It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man’s head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain, and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in…

  • Year End Summary 2019

    Here are the year end statistics as reported by WordPress, MonsterInsights, and Google. The top ten countries by page views were: United States United Kingdom Canada Brazil Greece Australia Portugal Germany Finland Sweden Page views declined by 20%, probably because the post count declined to 30 new articles. Six and more years ago, we were…