Category: History
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History of Christendom
Are current Hungarians misplaced Turks in the heart of Europe, or are they ultimately descendants of Hyperborea through the Persian line?
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Legends of War and Peace
When one focuses on self-development one should in such situations remember the inner strength and independence, and not let our own ego be drawn in conflicts and “litigations” with the ego of others, e.g. trying to succumb and defeat the other in something that might seem as an occult war. This is a challenge to…
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Haunted by the Emperor
Europe is haunted by the shadow of the Emperor. One senses his absence just as vividly as in former times one sensed his presence. Because the emptiness of the wound speaks, that which we miss knows how to make us sense it. ~ Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot At the apex of everything, as…
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The Truth is far from Suspected
Be assured, savants of the world, it is not in disdaining the sacred books of nations that you show your knowledge, it is in explaining them. One cannot write a history without monuments and that of the world is no exception. These books are the veritable archives wherein its deeds are contained. It is necessary…
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Players and Pugilists
It is of considerable significance that the profession considered most sinful in classical, medieval, and even early modern European society was the actor, that theater was consistently denounced by both civil and religious authorities, and that actors were not considered citizens in France until the great turning point of 1789. Even following this legal inclusion,…
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Metaphysics of Dueling
When reason alone fails to achieve justice, is dueling a legitimate way to reach a resolution? Dante answers, “Yes”.
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De Te Fabula Narratur
The citizen had no freedom of religion; either he participated in the religion of the city or he was banished. The hierarchy of family, tribe and city introduced the idea of a wider and wider influence of the gods, but the knowledge of the one god had been lost. Philosophers and initiates in the mystery…
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Aztecs and Human Sacrifice
Thus “family values” do not refer to the bourgeois nuclear family as commonly assumed today. The Vedas show that the “family” encompasses generations.
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What is a Nation
The existence of a nation is a daily plebiscite. ~ Ernest Renan In 1882, the one-time seminarian turned positivist historian, Ernest Renan, delivered his influential lecture “What is a nation”. That the question even arises is a sign of modernity and Renan’s ultimate answer seems far from the answer of Western ruling elite today. In…
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Bonfire of the Vanities
One cannot possess the virtues, while remaining obsessed with lusts and the “satisfaction of life”. And where there is lawlessness, someone must lay down the law.