Gornahoor

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Category: Art

  • Eternal Life is Seeing God

    Eternal Life is Seeing God

    Just as eternal life is seeing God, longing for nothing greater, no longer longing, so I’m made happy, my lady, by seeing you in this brief and fragile life of mine.

  • Geist Magazine is Out

    Geist Magazine is Out

    The first edition of our literature and art magazine, “Geist”, is just out, and you can read it for free. A multilingual magazine with texts in English and German, Portuguese, French and Italian translated to English, and artworks by several international artists. Poems, short stories, photographs, paintings and illustrations — it’s all there.

  • Kerouac and the Faustian West

    The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint. ~ Charles Péguy Love, Work, and Suffer ~ Motto of the Kerouac family (Rivista Araldica) Am actually not “beat” but strange solitary crazy Catholic mystic ~ Jack Kerouak, Lonesome Traveler Since…

  • Pulp Fiction

    There are few people who know the full force of the different movements of the heart. The vast majority of men are only sensitive to five or six passions, in the circle of which their lives are passed and which define the boundaries of their imaginations. Take away love and hate, pleasure and pain, hope…

  • Sex and Violence

    Sex and Violence

    we are always guided by Augustine’s maxim that the truth lies in the interiority of man. This we shall do by following our earlier analysis of the various faculties of the soul. The forces of thymos and epithymia (or eros) channeled toward higher values, and are dominated by the rational or intellectual soul. Hence, from…

  • Creativity, Nonduality, Inspiration

    Creativity, Nonduality, Inspiration

    You hear — you do not seek; you take — and do not ask who gives: a thought suddenly flashes up like lightning, it comes as a necessity, without hesitation — I have never had any choice in the matter. There is an ecstasy so great that the immense strain of it is sometimes relaxed by…

  • Art and Illusion in Meyrink

    Art and Illusion in Meyrink

    So the psychic appearances that play such a prominent part in his books are not real in themselves, but illusions whose reality comes from the formless realm.

  • Kidz, Kulcha, Kreativity

    A few years ago, I watched a contrived controversy on a cable news channel. An exclusive and expensive liberal arts college in the suburbs of Los Angeles was giving students access to time on the campus cable TV channel. Not surprisingly, one group decided to produce pornography. Appearing on the show was a young woman,…

  • Transmutation: A Novel

    A frequent visitor to Gornahoor, Lydia Bisanti, asked me to make her novel Transmutation: A novel about Eternal Love available in the Gornahoor library. This is how she describes herself: Lydia Bisanti’s interest in metaphysics started in the seventies when she discovered the writings of Rene Guenon, a French metaphysician who presented oriental doctrines in…

  • The American

    The American

    Jack, the American, is a maker of custom high-performance weapons used in assassinations. When an assignment goes awry in Sweden, he runs off to Italy and secludes himself in the town. His chief gives him one last job, after which Jack plans to retire.