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Tag: Shankara

  • Three Saturnine Philosophers

    Three Saturnine Philosophers

    The intellectual love of God combines the highest form of knowledge with the greatest emotion. In effect, this is God contemplating himself in the being. Our love for God, therefore, is God’s love for humanity. Salvation therefore consists in a constant and eternal love of God. This is the most elevated and desirable state, and…

  • Multiple States of the Human Being

    Thou hast ordered all things in measure and number and mass. ~ Wisdom of Solomon 11:20 A science was less esteemed for itself than for the degree in which it expressed after its own fashion and represented within a certain order of things a reflection of the higher immutable truth which anything of any reality…

  • Chaos in the Noosphere

    Chaos in the Noosphere

    We do not understand our identity, certainly not as Atman, but we identify as a false finite self, a creation of the causal body. Due to ignorance, the causal body creates an illusory world that we believe we inhabit.

  • Crest Jewel

    Crest Jewel

    study the scriptures, engage in altruistic activities, participate in rites, and worship the gods. Ultimately, however, what is necessary is the knowledge of the oneness of the self.

  • The Person as Subject

    Regarding translations from Introduction to Magic: Guido de Giorgio — Notes on Ascesis and anti-Europe Julius Evola — Esoterism and Christian Mysticism These essays deal with the question of finding a guru and recognizing the marks of an esoteric tradition. Before we do that, I am providing some questions to ponder, in anticipation that some…

  • Vedanta and Western Tradition

    Vedanta and Western Tradition

    The educated man of today is completely out of touch with those European modes of thought and those intellectual aspects of the Christian doctrine which are nearest those of the Vedic traditions.