Gornahoor

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Tag: Aristotle

  • Esoteric Anthropology

    Esoteric Anthropology

    So the first task is to begin observing and transcending the misconceptions of the first stage. A temporary “I” develops that integrates the three lower centers. This is still a transitional, or psychological, state, often represented as the lower Ego.

  • Prole Thoughts

    Since I had been taking notes about various news programs over the past week, I was intending to comment on them. That turned out to be distasteful and probably futile, so instead I prefer to continue commenting on European aristocratic philosophy as succinctly summarized by Prof Alexander Jacob in his book Nobilitas; since it seems…

  • Rational Man and Real Man

    Rational Man and Real Man

    A real man must know himself as Subject, Person, or Self, not as an object whether in his consciousness or in the world. Since to know is to be, the Real Man will also be a Person, not just another individual in the world. There is no formula or program for this task, that is…

  • The Traditional Notion of Causation

    As a reminder to old readers, and a notice to the new, let us repeat Gornahoor’s purpose. We claim that there was a Primordial Tradition of the Indo-European peoples, which manifested in the Vedic civilization, Ancient Greece, and Medieval Europe, inter alia. We are not here to teach Aristotle’s four causes, which anyone can find…

  • The Spirit Soul

    The Spirit Soul

    Pure spirits communicate through thought transference. This has consequences for the Occult War. Men believe their thoughts are their own, even though they cannot predict what they will think of one minute from now, and seldom consider the source of thoughts. But thoughts come from the hierarchies of higher beings and angels and demons. That…

  • Doctrine of the Soul

    In the Medieval period, the doctrine of the soul reached its deepest understanding in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. This doctrine was adopted, virtually in toto, from Aristotle. Now, Aristotle was the heir to the totality of Greek philosophy and its mysteries. Even if much of that earlier work has now been lost except in…

  • NeoPlatonism & Orthodoxy

    An Eastern Orthodox response to Protestant critique reveals some very interesting facts about the tradition. First of all, it considered itself to build upon classical tradition: Towards late antiquity, two words were in philosophical use which meant substance or substantive being. As Aristotle put it, being can be said in many ways or there are…