Forwarded from Arktos
Aristotle Abandoned
by Alexander Dugin
The pseudoscience of the modern age began with the elimination of three out of Aristotle’s four causes. Only one, causa efficiens, the cause of motion, was retained. As a result, the object lost its three dimensions — the eidetic, the hylistic, and, above all, the entelechial. The object ceased to be determined by its spiritual meaning, its malleable connection with the elements, and lost the goal of motion, which synthesized the previous three causes. The object became an irrelevant (unknown) moving object. This means that it exists only in motion — disconnected from eternal identity (causa formalis), chaotic malleability/elasticity (causa materialis), and, most importantly, without a goal (causa finalis). Such motion has no final point; it is fundamentally aimless. “These are the atoms and vortices of Democritus and the foundation of Epicurus’ teaching,” will say someone familiar with Greek philosophy. And they will be right.
By removing the final cause, we eliminate the axis around which the world revolves and strip time of its orientation. In essence, from the very beginning, the physics of the Renaissance (Galileo, Newton) laid the groundwork for postmodernism — recycling, post-history, citation, dissolution of meaning, nihilistic irony.
The most false aspect of the modern age culture is not its philosophy but its science. It is the source of civilization’s decline. Nobel Prize laureate Werner Karl Heisenberg, a truly brilliant physicist who worked on quantum theory, once noted: ancient science assembled the world, made it whole, whereas we, the scientists of modernity, disassemble it into meaningless fragments; in striving to conquer it, we destroy it. Modern science is destructive. This is the most dangerous destructive ideology. It deprives everything of meaning, seeking to subject the subtle ontology of the world to its illusory calculations.
If we remove causa finalis, then reality becomes isomorphic — no one and nothing has the correct path. One way is no better than another. At the same time, overall meaninglessness is subject to irreversible mechanical fatalism in particular. This is a totalitarian universe, where all cause-and-effect chains are stronger than steel. True tyranny. This is exactly how Newton constructed his commentaries on the Apocalypse: knowing the causes, we firmly deduce the effects. This is Calvinism applied to science. But what exactly are the causes? Causa efficiens.
This logic underlies the two most totalitarian Western ideologies — liberalism (which is undoubtedly the champion of mental degeneration) and communism. They lead, with iron necessity, to an absolute planetary nightmare. However, Nazism is no better. Just less dogmatic and “scientific.” But it follows the same logic, only applied not to the individual and class (two false mega-concepts of liberals and communists) but to race.
We need to start by reevaluating the concept of causality and return to a true, authentic interpretation of Aristotle’s ideas.
(translated from the Russian by Constantin von Hoffmeister)
by Alexander Dugin
The pseudoscience of the modern age began with the elimination of three out of Aristotle’s four causes. Only one, causa efficiens, the cause of motion, was retained. As a result, the object lost its three dimensions — the eidetic, the hylistic, and, above all, the entelechial. The object ceased to be determined by its spiritual meaning, its malleable connection with the elements, and lost the goal of motion, which synthesized the previous three causes. The object became an irrelevant (unknown) moving object. This means that it exists only in motion — disconnected from eternal identity (causa formalis), chaotic malleability/elasticity (causa materialis), and, most importantly, without a goal (causa finalis). Such motion has no final point; it is fundamentally aimless. “These are the atoms and vortices of Democritus and the foundation of Epicurus’ teaching,” will say someone familiar with Greek philosophy. And they will be right.
By removing the final cause, we eliminate the axis around which the world revolves and strip time of its orientation. In essence, from the very beginning, the physics of the Renaissance (Galileo, Newton) laid the groundwork for postmodernism — recycling, post-history, citation, dissolution of meaning, nihilistic irony.
The most false aspect of the modern age culture is not its philosophy but its science. It is the source of civilization’s decline. Nobel Prize laureate Werner Karl Heisenberg, a truly brilliant physicist who worked on quantum theory, once noted: ancient science assembled the world, made it whole, whereas we, the scientists of modernity, disassemble it into meaningless fragments; in striving to conquer it, we destroy it. Modern science is destructive. This is the most dangerous destructive ideology. It deprives everything of meaning, seeking to subject the subtle ontology of the world to its illusory calculations.
If we remove causa finalis, then reality becomes isomorphic — no one and nothing has the correct path. One way is no better than another. At the same time, overall meaninglessness is subject to irreversible mechanical fatalism in particular. This is a totalitarian universe, where all cause-and-effect chains are stronger than steel. True tyranny. This is exactly how Newton constructed his commentaries on the Apocalypse: knowing the causes, we firmly deduce the effects. This is Calvinism applied to science. But what exactly are the causes? Causa efficiens.
This logic underlies the two most totalitarian Western ideologies — liberalism (which is undoubtedly the champion of mental degeneration) and communism. They lead, with iron necessity, to an absolute planetary nightmare. However, Nazism is no better. Just less dogmatic and “scientific.” But it follows the same logic, only applied not to the individual and class (two false mega-concepts of liberals and communists) but to race.
We need to start by reevaluating the concept of causality and return to a true, authentic interpretation of Aristotle’s ideas.
(translated from the Russian by Constantin von Hoffmeister)
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Forwarded from Occult of Personality
"God is one for all,
But he is three-fold.
Men err, because he is seven-fold.
In his totality he is one-sounding,
In his division he is many-sounding,
And in another division he is contradictory.
He is everywhere in all forms.
When men see him
It depends on their qualities
Which part they touch
But who touches if he is ignorant,
Sees in the part he touches, all of him
And not doubting, preaches about him
He sins already
Because he acts against
The laws laid down
In the commandments of the Most High.
The commandment is this:
I am truth.
Your unbelief draws you
Into nearness with me
Because he who sees me..."
~ Gurdjieff, Struggle of the Magicians
But he is three-fold.
Men err, because he is seven-fold.
In his totality he is one-sounding,
In his division he is many-sounding,
And in another division he is contradictory.
He is everywhere in all forms.
When men see him
It depends on their qualities
Which part they touch
But who touches if he is ignorant,
Sees in the part he touches, all of him
And not doubting, preaches about him
He sins already
Because he acts against
The laws laid down
In the commandments of the Most High.
The commandment is this:
I am truth.
Your unbelief draws you
Into nearness with me
Because he who sees me..."
~ Gurdjieff, Struggle of the Magicians
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Forwarded from Halls of the Hyperboreads
"This self-givenness [of a phenomenon] […] is structurally different from 'relating-to.' It is not in itself a 'relating-to' but insurmountably excludes it from itself. It is not outside of itself but in itself, not transcendence but radical immanence. And it is only on the basis of this radical immanence that something like transcendence is possible. Seeing is actualized only as a nonseeing […]. This nonseeing, this unseen, this invisible, is not the unconscious. It is not the negation of phenomenality but its first phenomenalization. It is not a presupposition but rather our life in its non-ek-static but yet undeniable pathos."
— Michel Henry, Material Phenomenology
"It is the first decisive characteristic of the Truth of Christianity that it in no way differs from what it makes true. Within it there is no separation between the seeing and what is seen, between the light and what it illuminates. And this is because there is in that Truth neither Seeing nor seen, no Light like that of the world. From the start, the Christian concept of truth is given as irreducible to the concept of truth that dominates the history of Western thought, from Greece to contemporary phenomenology."
"...only the work of mercy practices the forgetting of self in which, all interest for the Self (right down to the idea of what we call a self or a me) now removed, no obstacle is now posed to the unfurling of life in this Self extended to its original essence."
— Michel Henry, I Am the Truth
— Michel Henry, Material Phenomenology
"It is the first decisive characteristic of the Truth of Christianity that it in no way differs from what it makes true. Within it there is no separation between the seeing and what is seen, between the light and what it illuminates. And this is because there is in that Truth neither Seeing nor seen, no Light like that of the world. From the start, the Christian concept of truth is given as irreducible to the concept of truth that dominates the history of Western thought, from Greece to contemporary phenomenology."
"...only the work of mercy practices the forgetting of self in which, all interest for the Self (right down to the idea of what we call a self or a me) now removed, no obstacle is now posed to the unfurling of life in this Self extended to its original essence."
— Michel Henry, I Am the Truth
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Forwarded from Occult of Personality
“There are many gradations of listening: listening with one's ears, hearing sounds; and listening to inner vibrations, listening to meanings. There is listening that is beyond sound altogether. When one is really watching, then one is listening, waiting and watching. Whatever kind of listening it may be, it has this in common, that it opens the door for something to enter. If we cannot listen, that door is closed. The door of the ears may be open, the door of the mind may be closed. The door of the heart may be open, but it also can be closed. The understanding also may be listening.”
~ J.G. Bennett, The Sevenfold Work
~ J.G. Bennett, The Sevenfold Work
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Forwarded from Mr Mysterion
Many people talk of those who fail the path and end up as demons. But few mention the possibility of failing the path by "becoming a god".
The gods are tempters just as much as demons are.
The gods are tempters just as much as demons are.
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Richard Ruach's Research Center
https://vimeo.com/260047943?fbclid=IwAR0Dcy6cqRagnfURKESyuRQRoTkZ-CXfbB6hzb9Fxu13Ccux7WdOt0WsWc8
Short documentary on Remote-Viewing.
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