Category: Joseph de Maistre
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Angels, Templars, and Joseph de Maistre
We must be ready for a profound event in the divine order, toward which we are marching with an accelerated speed that must strike all observers. Terrible oracles already announce that the time has come.
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Sign of the Times
We must be ready for an immense event in the divine order which we are travelling towards with an accelerated speed that must astound all those who watch. Awesome oracles have already pronounced that the time is now.
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Yahweh’s Template – II
Who is Yahweh? Jesus certainly never spoke of Him, except to say that “before Abraham was, I am”. Jesus taught of His Father; and yet he kept the rites of Yahweh in such a way as to transform them. The more he taught, the angrier the Law-protectors of Yahweh became. Yet Jesus affirms that “not…
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Saint Joseph de Maistre
On All Saint’s Day, we recall the guiding voices behind Gornahoor, most prominently: Julius Evola, Rene Guenon, Vladimir Solovyov, Valentin Tomberg, August Comte, Donoso Cortes. Then of course, there is our patron saint, Joseph de Maistre. Joseph de Maistre was one of those well-born men of sound mind that Evola referred to in his self-defense.…
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Violence and Revolution
The cause of all wars and revolutions — in a word, of all violence — is always the same: the negation of hierarchy. ~ Valentin Tomberg What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. ~ Joseph de Maistre While the world does not understand these three…
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The Spirit of Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre was an Hermetist (in the school of Martines de Pasqually and Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin), Traditionalist, Reactionary, European, and a source of the Russian Idea. In his Self-Defense, Julius Evola includes Maistre among those well-bred men holding sane and normal views common prior to the French Revolution. In this brief review of the…
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Are You a Counterrevolutionary?
What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. ~ Joseph de Maistre My principles are only those that prior to the French revolution, every well born person considered healthy and normal. ~ Julius Evola At a time when the right is in a state of confusion,…
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Man’s Curious Idiosyncrasy
It is one of man’s curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. The mysteries that surround him on all sides are not sufficient for him; he still rejects clear ideas and reduces everything to a problem by some inexplicable twist of pride, which makes him regard it as below him to…
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Orientations: The Religious Question
The nature of man is to be a cognitive, religious and sociable animal. All experience teaches us this; and, to my knowledge, nothing has contradicted this experience. ~ Joseph de Maistre, Study of Sovereignty Evola regarded Joseph de Maistre as standing on the same side of the barricade as himself. And, like Maistre, he does…