Category: Tantra
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Some Aspects of the Traditional Medical World View: The Demiourgos-Physician
the worldview and practice of traditional medicine studies, contemplates, and actively harmonizes each term of the “Great Triad”, curing and ensuring health, while taking the body as “departure point” for the realization of cosmological and metaphysical Truth.
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Liberalism and the Folk
Liberalism As to tolerance, it is surprising how far removed from the equity and prudence of the Church are those who profess what is called Liberalism. For, in allowing that boundless license of which We have spoken, they exceed all limits and end at last by making no apparent distinction between truth and error, honesty…
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The Eternal Wedding
He appreciates her sacrifice and the pain she endures for his cause; he appreciates the technique which she has perfected in order to liberate him… she is the creation of the world. He is beyond her, he is beyond everything at the other end of the cord and he loves her with an infinite tenderness…
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Recapitulation
The doctrine of Recapitulation can be deduced from that of karma and sexual union.
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Initiatic Paths
A couple of weeks ago, we asked about the available options for initiation for Western men today. Although the first two options got the most votes, the third one seems to have generated the most interest. Read Dante’s Divine Comedy in Italian Men attracted to Tradition today are, or should be, interested in the idea…
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Dreaming the Same Dream
By “dreaming the same dream” and sharing visions, the man and women are united. Her salvation comes from him, while she, embodying Wisdom or Sophia, reveals himself.
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Shakti Power as Play
The only reality is Consciousness, a position for which we may argue but which cannot be established with certitude except by an actual or direct experience of unity. Those who seek to establish supersensible truths on any other ground must fail; just as those who argue against the validity of the individual’s experience must fail.
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Knowledge and Power
The fundamental being and expression [of Consciousness or the I] is Joy pulsating as Will-Power and manifesting Itself in an unspeakably sublime cosmic play. It is not a mere abstraction — a wilderness of Pure Being or Pure Nothing as some critics of Vedanta have imagined the abode of Reality to be. ~ John Woodroffe,…
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Fedele d’Amore and the Tantric Path
The Fedele d’Amore was an initiatic society of Italian poets, and Dante was the most prominent among them. For these poets, the image of the beloved revealed the Divine Sophia, thereby awakening higher stages of consciousness. For Dante, it was Beatrice who served as his guide. A similar tradition existed among the Islamic poets. Ibn…