Category: Quotes
-
Truth and Reality
And the independent reality of the individual, when we examine it, is in truth mere illusion. Apart from the community, what are separate men? It is the common mind within him which gives reality to the human being, and taken by himself, whatever else he is, he is no human … If this is true…
-
Mental Death
If you seek the monument to our folly, look about you. In our own day we have seen cities obliterated and ancient faiths stricken. We may well ask, in the words of Matthew, whether we are not faced with “great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world.”
-
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…
-
Protected: The Truth begins to dawn on us
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
-
It’s all one Religion
Oh well, it’s all one religion ~ Ezra Pound
-
Finis Latinorum
From the Manifesto of the Rose + Croix, (2 IX 1881) quoted by Joséphin Palédan in Comment on devient Mage (How to become a Mage). Foretelling the end of the Latin race due to the Barbarian invasion yet to come, in the midst of its own decadence, this is a Manifesto for living among the…
-
Ernst Junger on Apoliteia
The following passages are from Ernst Junger’s philosophical-metahistorical novel Eumeswil, a book which complements Julius Evola’s Ride the Tiger quite nicely. “I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in. … Thus I take…
-
Stay Awake during the Night
Difendere un ideale e tenere le posizioni anche se esse dovessero essere posizioni perdute — o per meglio dire: anche quando dovesse essere problematico che coloro che ancora rimarranno a vegliare durante la notte possano incontrare coloro che appariranno nel nuovo mattino. To defend an ideal and take a stand even if the position is…
-
The Quality Known as Repose
The quality known as repose in the ancient Greek is a manifestation of that serenity which belongs to a people not yet disturbed by self-doubt, self-immolation and self-contempt. It is the extreme harmony of a mentality not yet shaken by the tortures of introspection or inner conflict, by what Goethe called ‘two souls throning within…
-
Socialism and Christianity
Christianity urges one to give away what is one’s own. Socialism urges one to take what belongs to others. ~ Vladimir Solovyov Lectures on Divine Humanity