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Tag: Fabre d’Olivet

  • Salvation and Evolution

    At the conclusion to the Meditation on the Arcanum of the Star, Valentin Tomberg makes the following appeal: In our time, therefore, it is a matter of the task of effecting the third step of the evolutionary spiral of the Hermetic tradition — the third “recovery” of the subject of the Emerald Tablet. Our time…

  • Race of the Soul

    there are many cases of people who are exactly of the same race of the body, of the same tribe, sometimes even, brothers or fathers and sons, of the same blood in the most real sense, but who nevertheless fail to understand each other. A barrier separates their souls, their way of feeling and seeing…

  • The Truth is far from Suspected

    Be assured, savants of the world, it is not in disdaining the sacred books of nations that you show your knowledge, it is in explaining them. One cannot write a history without monuments and that of the world is no exception. These books are the veritable archives wherein its deeds are contained. It is necessary…

  • Fabre d’Olivet and the Myth of Blood

    In the face of the chaos of modernity, the only salvation is form. ~ Julius Evola, motto to Il mito del sangue Julius Evola regarded his books Il mito del sangue (“The Myth of Blood”) and Sintesi di dottrina della razza as two parts of a single work. The first volume is a systematic and…

  • Fabre d’Olivet on the Borean Race

    An early review of two books by Fabre d’Olivet, translated into English, was published in New York Tribune, 7 Aug 1921. Besides his monumental hermeneutical study of the history of the Borean race, Fabre d’Olivet wrote an interpretation of the Golden Verses of Pythagoras. Born some 800 years after Akhnaton, Pythagoras was an initiate in…

  • Providence, Will, Destiny

    In The Great Triad, Rene Guenon deals with the relationship between Providence, Will, and Destiny. Here he relies on the work of Fabre d’Olivet, which is based on Pythagoreanism and Chinese metaphysics. This triad is related to the “Great Triad” of Heaven, Man, Earth. D’Olivet writes: That universal Man is a power in his own…

  • The End of the Golden Age

    The End of the Golden Age

    Two birds, inseparably united companions, dwell in the same tree; the one eats of the fruit of the tree, while the other looks on without eating.~ Mundaka Upanishad iii.1 This quote from the Upanishads, which appear at the end of the Vedic period, demonstrates the vague beginnings of the dualistic consciousness, the indicator of the…