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Tag: Wolfgang Smith

  • NASA, the Moon, Genesis and the Tao

    NASA, the Moon, Genesis and the Tao

    In traditional cosmology, the position of Earth is the furthest from Heaven and the closest to Hell. If that is what geocentrism means, then it must be true.

  • Christian Gnosis: Meister Eckhart

    Christian Gnosis: Meister Eckhart

    Eckhart, with the possible exception of Dante, can be regarded from an Indian point of view as the greatest of all Europeans. ~ Ananda Coomaraswamy

  • Christian Gnosis

    Christian Gnosis

    Review of Christian Gnosis: From St. Paul to Meister Eckhart by Wolfgang Smith. Unlike other men of Tradition who accept a more or less universal gnosis, Smith will show that a specifically Christian gnosis goes beyond what other sapiential traditions can offer. He bases this on the doctrine of the Trinity, especially as it appears…

  • Degrees of Existence

    The next generation of American Indians could radically transform scientific knowledge by grounding themselves in traditional knowledge about the world and demonstrating how everything is connected to everything else. Advocacy of this idea would involve showing how personality and a sense of purpose must become part of the knowledge that science confronts and understands. The…

  • From Worms to Gods

    In which we review Wolfgang Smith’s writings on Darwinism and biology. I am worm, I am slave, I am king, I am God. ~ Gavrila Derzhavin Spiritual and mystical writers are often criticized, e.g., as being “life denying”, for describing themselves as “worms” or “slaves”. Here, however, the Russian poet Derzhavin gives us the complete…

  • Dabbling in the Quantum World

    Dabbling in the Quantum World

    Despite the incredible accuracy of its predictions and the elegance of its mathematical models, quantum mechanics still remains unintelligible.

  • Pseudoscience and Scientism

    In which we review several books by Wolfgang Smith on the metaphysics of science. It is impossible that these things should be understood by men in general, but only by the small number of those who are destined to prepare in one way or another the germs of the future cycle. ~ Rene Guenon Boris…