Recently, I have been fascinated by Confucianism. It created a meritocratic system of self-cultivation that lasted for centuries. While its practice may never have matched its ideals, I think we can learn much from this tradition. The official Thelemic viewpoint on Confucianism is favorable as well. The prophet references it in his new comment for ( Read more... )

Power derives from alignment and utilization of naturally occurring hierarchical systems.

I tend to describe myself as a Thelemic Traditionalist, with the caveat that this is more of a descriptor of what I aspire toward. I generally believe in the theories of René Guénon as interpreted by Julius Evola. To put a subset of their theories in simplistic terms, they posit a divine force from which all valid metaphysical values derive (q.v., ( Read more... )

Dystopian settings are inherently commentaries on society. They take elements of “normal” society and amplify them until they reach horrific proportions. This is true in hardcore dystopian settings and those where the dystopian vision is a discordant thread. Examples of the former include 1984, Brave New World, and Psycho-Pass. Examples of the ( Read more... )

Truth is verifiable, either directly (as with Science) or via inference. The supernals may be beyond reason, but in order for it to reach Malkuth it has to pass through the Ruach. If your "Truth" fails to match what is known &/or verifiable, then I will bet that it isn't Truth, but instead delusion of the kind Crowley warns us against in the " ( Read more... )

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and, that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to. To that calmness there will succeed a tranquil repose. In that ( Read more... )

"We have already mentioned the fact that the messianic-Galilean doctrine, in its original nature, did not aim to create a new form of social life or even of religion. It had a purely anarchist, antisocial, defeatist character, subversive of every rational order of things. A unique concern pervaded it, obsessively: the salvation of the soul of the ( Read more... )

Evola has been describing the Traditional esoteric path. It consists of three stages.
CatharsisThis is the stage of purification, moving from spontaneity to Will.TheoriaThis is the stage of illumination, where the darkness is illumined.TheosisThis is the stage of divinization, where one incarnates God.
To some it may seem that Evola is inverting the ( Read more... )

Article Analysis Paper
HST 199K: History of Japan and Korea
Winter 2011

In the article, “The Swan-Maiden Revisited: Religious Significance of 'Divine-Wife' Folktales with Special Reference to Japan,” Alan L. Miller entreats us to reconsider the tale of the Swan Maiden. This tale, the motif of which can be found in both the East and the West, revolves ( Read more... )

A woman of race does not desire to be a “companion” or a “lover,” but a mother; and not the mother of one child, to serve as a toy and distraction, but of many: the instinct of a strong race speaks in the pride that large families inspire, in the feeling that barrenness is the hardest curse that can befall a woman and through her the race. Out of ( Read more... )