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Category: Middle Ages

  • A Way Out, Further In

    One of Evola’s most prescient suggestions is that the modern aspirant towards transcendence should “ride the tiger” – the individual (or the person, but not the personality) should use the negative energies of the modern world to advance himself, until they are exhausted, for opposing them directly would invite destruction. There is an important qualification:…

  • NeoPlatonism & the Faith

    “Briefly put, the purpose of this whole work [the Divine Comedy] as well as its parts is to remove those living in this present state of life from misery and to lead them all the way to happiness. The kind of philosophy under which we proceed here both in whole and in part is the…

  • Fortune’s Fool by Numbers

    But I think about the hebdomads for myself, and I keep these speculations in my memory rather than sharing them with any of those people whose impertinence and insolence permits nothing to be analyzed without joking and laughter. Accordingly, don’t be opposed to obscurities stemming from brevity; since they are the faithful guardian of the…

  • Progenitors of Our Middle Earth

    Since men become happy by acquiring happiness, and since happiness is divinity itself, it follows that men become happy by acquiring divinity. For as men become just by acquiring integrity, and wise by acquiring wisdom, so they must in a similar way become gods by acquiring divinity. Thus everyone who is happy is a god…

  • The Glory of God

    “The essential American soul is hard, stoic, isolate, and a killer. It has never yet melted”. – DH Lawrence If it is true that the “Great Divide” was the Middle Ages, it might be worthwhile examining to what extent they remain with us, and how we might recover such. Ordinarily, it is claimed that Luther…

  • Continuity of Tradition

    Tradition is not subject to any standard, on the contrary, it is the standard by which to judge a culture. Historical change, in the Traditional sense, is organic, since it develops according to the needs and nature of specific peoples. For example, the rupture between ancient Rome and Holy Rome is not as great as…

  • Action and Contemplation in Dante’s Divine Comedy

    Titus Burckhardt, in his essay “Because Dante Was Right,” argues that one of the main themes of the Commedia is “the reciprocal relationship between knowledge and will.” Knowledge of the eternal truths is potentially present in the human spirit or intellect, but its unfolding is directly conditioned by the will, negatively when the soul falls…

  • Nine worthies: Champions of Chivalry

    Nine worthies: Champions of Chivalry

    The Worthies are archetypal and the symmetry of the scheme reflects the Medieval view of history and destiny of European man. The Old Law prepared the way for the New. The Pagan law created the Pax Romana that allowed the spread of the New Law.

  • The Symbolism of the Horse

    The Symbolism of the Horse

    Within a single organization, a kind of double hierarchy can exist, especially when the apparent leaders are themselves unaware of any link to a spiritual center. In such cases there may exist beside the visible hierarchy made up by those apparent leaders, an invisible hierarchy of which the members may not fulfil any ‘official’ function…

  • Random thoughts on Chivalry

    Random thoughts on Chivalry

    Classical ethics, classical jurisprudence and classical philosophy, though by no means irreconcilable with Christian thought and exercising a powerful influence upon it, belonged to a pre-Christian tradition. Chivalry was thus reminded, forcefully, of the separation of the origins of its institutions from those of the priesthood, and of the original independence of its function —…