Category: Metaphysics
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Keeping Warm: David and Abishag
The dream will be fulfilled when the Anima stays and unites with me in consciousness. She will not leave me alone with the texts, but we will each know them in our own way. Then we begin the journey.
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Paying the Cost
It takes years of training to teach us to deal intelligently with the world of everyday life. Our schooling — whether in plain reasoning or formal topics — is rigorous, because the knowledge we are trying to impart is very complex.
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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.
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Meditation on the Trinity
Guenon’s life project was to develop a “common understanding” “between various traditional doctrines.” We can now hope that there are indeed “qualified individuals capable of taking the initiative of an effective rapprochement such as the one I am thinking of”.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
To know God, it is best to rely on the esoterists, saints, prophets, etc., who actually knew God, not some innovator with a novel theory about God.
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The Limits of Human Intelligence
Is a complete understanding of the universe totally beyond human capability?
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The Dragon Path
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.
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Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
One cannot steal moral dignity, or plunder justice, of appropriate benevolence. These goods are unconditionally desirable.
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The Intellect and the Mirror
When the soul is in a state of calm, it reflects the images of the thought and intellect; but when it is disturbed by the disorder produced in the harmony of the body, the thought and the intellect think without the image, and the act of intelligence takes place without being reflected.
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Gods of Physics
There is a reason why physicists make lousy philosophers. It’s because they believe that physics itself is philosophy.