Tag: Buddhism

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1. Julius Evola’s Interpretation of Alchemy

In our last installment, we told the story of Sigurd slaying the dragon Fafnir and tasting his blood, which gives the hero knowledge of the language of birds. I proposed that this, and surrounding episodes, may be understood as an account of alchemical transmutation, in just the way Evola expounded this term in The Hermetic Tradition and other texts. In this essay I will introduce readers to Evola’s understanding of alchemy. In subsequent installments, I will expound an alchemical interpretation of Sigurd’s adventures. (more…)

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Music as Direct Expression of Will

As noted last time, Schopenhauer provides us with a detailed discussion of the different art forms – much too detailed to cover here. But we may note a few of the highlights of his discussion. (more…)

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We are back in Odessa. The delivery round has been successfully completed. Only one crate of medical supplies remains to be taken to Kyiv. (more…)

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The waxing and waning of religious practices, cultural customs, and social norms has been a theme throughout history. There was a time when classical paganism was decadent and it was Christianity that offered the zealous alternative. (more…)

You can buy James J. O’Meara’s Mysticism After Modernism here.

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James J. O’Meara has a book out, Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson, and Other Populist Gurus, published by Manticore Press. The book is about where mysticism intersects with culture and politics, rather than being some purely academic look at mysticism and the occult. It is also about thinkers who used magic to enact real-world change.

Much of the Right is dismissive or derisive of the occult, their criticisms ranging from conspiracy theories about evil Illuminati occultists to dismissing the New Age scene as being solely for Left-wing hippies. Regardless, there is a lot of crossover appeal and syncretic occultism. (more…)

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Emil Cioran
Apologie de la barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941)
Paris: L’Herne, 2015

Špičkové nakladatelství L’Herne v roce 2015 vydalo velice zajímavý titul: sborník článků Emila Ciorana, otištěných před válkou v rumunských novinách. Cioran, později slavný aforista, byl i v době před spojeneckým vítězstvím bystrým pozorovatelem, kousavým kulturním kritikem a politickým analytikem. (more…)

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Robert M. Price
Judaizing Jesus: How New Testament Scholars Created the Ecumenical Golem
Durham, N.C.: Pitchstone Publishing, 2021

“[The] Christian faith, sprung from the wisdom of India,[1] overspreads the old trunk of rude Judaism, a tree of alien growth; the original form must in part remain, but it suffers a complete change and becomes full of life and truth, so that it appears to be the same tree, but is really another.” — Schopenhauer, “The Christian System” (more…)

“Death found an author writing his life. . .” from Edward Hull’s Danse Macabre, 1827.

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It always sounds silly to me when people tell the dead to “rest in peace.”

Practically speaking, don’t you have to disturb their rest to tell them that? It makes about as much sense as nudging someone who’s snoring to say, “Hey — HEY! Wake up and go to sleep.” (more…)

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As a white man in the modern world, you are programmed to self-destruct. As dissident artist Owen Cyclops puts it, “our people have been taught that they’re bad, so they’re killing themselves in record numbers.” Of course, suicide is the most extreme expression of this, but the same basic spiritual sickness can be seen in a variety of phenomena, from the opioid crisis to alcoholism to many whites’ embrace of the constant attacks on white identity. Buddhism teaches that life is suffering, but there is a more productive way out of suffering. (more…)

Mr. Gurdjieff

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George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born on this day in 1866, 1872, or 1877 — depending on whom you ask. [1] Much else about his biography is equally uncertain. We do know that his father was Greek, his mother Armenian, and that he was born in Alexandropol which was then part of the Russian Empire (it is now in Armenia and is called Gyumri). (more…)

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Emil Cioran
Apologie de la Barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941)
Paris: L’Herne, 2015

This is a very interesting book released by the superior publishing house L’Herne: a collection of Emil Cioran’s articles published in Romanian newspapers, mostly from before the war. (more…)

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Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

This text is drawn from Dominique Venner, Un samouraï d’Occident: Le Bréviaire des insoumis (Paris: Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2013), 101-15.. I have previously reviewed this work at The Occidental Observer.

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We are all faced with the challenge of speaking, and living, truths which are felt to be offensive by a great many of our countrymen, not to mention the powers that be. This is not a new problem. By definition, the natural diversity of men means that knowledge of the truth is highly unequally distributed and those who know most about the truth are necessarily a tiny minority. This minority must alone face the prejudices and ignorance of the masses and the violence of the state. (more…)