The East vs. West battle becomes meaningless in the face of the eternal war of North vs. South.

From the split of Polar Cro-Magnon man into his eastern and western offspring, the preservation of his Solar spirit has been preserved in the traditions of his sons; the original Hyperborean race and tradition can still be found in both the East and the West. However everything that has caused a degradation of this Polar race has been Southern and dark, demonic, chthonic. Racially this includes mixing with the older southern races - in Europe, this created the Caucasian Hunter Gatherers and Anatolian Farmers; in West Asia, the Levantine Natufians and Neolithic Iranians; in East Asia, Paleo-Asians became East Asians forever mixed with Melanesian Lemurian blood; in Siberia and the Americas, the Hyperborean and Atlantean homelands were lost to the East Asian and Paleo-Asian hordes. Spiritually this degradation came from the ever-increasingly mixed peoples whose religions adopted the gynocratic cult of the Mother, shamanic totemism, lycanthropy, and all else Lunar and feminine and telluric.

While it is true that East vs. West have fought many battles since the fall, the true war for the Polar brothers has always been with the equatorial South. In the face of this greater struggle, the forced separation only harms the ability of both to exemplify their common Hyperborean heritage.

What I'm trying to say is, maybe this Dugin guy is onto something.

"When our intellect speculates [on Metaphysics] it does so not insofar as it is human but insofar as it is something divine within us. So Hermes Trismegistus cleverly writes in his book on the God of gods, which he composed for his friend Asclepius, that man is the connection between God and the world, being above the world by means of his double investigation, that is natural philosophy and speculative science. By means of both of these [sciences] the power of reason in man is perfected and in this way he is rightly called the ‘ruler of the world.’ Furthermore, man is bound to God, because he beholds an immeasurable beauty that is not in this world, that is, not in succession or temporal, which he receives by means of the divine likeness that is in him in the simple light of the intellect, which he shares with the God of gods."

- 𝑺. 𝑨𝒍𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒔 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒏𝒖𝒔, 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒕𝒍𝒆'𝒔 𝑴𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒔, 𝑰.𝑰.𝑰.

Man was generated and constituted, for the purpose of contemplating the reason of the whole of nature, and in order that, being himself the work of wisdom, he might survey the wisdom of the things which exist. For if the reason of man is contemplative of the reason of the whole of nature, and the wisdom also of man perceives and contemplates the wisdom of the things in existence, - this being acknowledged, it is at the same time demonstrated, that man is a part of a universal reason, and of the whole of the intellectual nature.

Archytas the Pythagorean

New video on technology, war, and heroism.
With Ronin, Via Evolae, and Das Abenteuerliche Herz.

https://youtu.be/tOyTbOlkKQk

While practicing yoga we will see improvements in physical health, energy levels, and generally a sense of well-being along with a higher degree of perception, awareness and concentration. However the purpose of yoga is not to improve one's health, it is to finetune the mind and body for focus on the Supreme.

In the practice of asanas, we shouldn't be aiming to burn fat, improve stamina, etc. We should be aiming to realise the fundamental truth that this body is not I. The purpose of yoga is to achieve samadhi and complete knowledge.

The goal of yoga is transcendental, beyond both body and mind. Self-realisation is sought by three methods: (1) the path of knowledge (jnana); (2) the path of the eightfold system (ashtanga); or (3) the path of Bhakti. In each one of these, one has to realise his relationship with the Supreme and re-establish the highest perfectional stage of always remembering Vishnu (samadhi). Following any of the three methods mentioned, one is assured to reach this goal with time. Krishna speaks of this in the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita; even a little endeavour on the transcendental path offers great hope for the individual on his journey to attain the highest perfection:

In this endeavour there is no loss or diminution, and a little advancement on this path can protect one from the most dangerous type of fear (BG 2.40)

Perform your duty equipoised, O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga (BG 2.48)

To reach satisfaction in all
desire its possession in nothing,
To come to the knowledge of all
desire the knowledge of nothing.To come to possess all
desire the possession of nothing.To arrive at being all
desire to be nothing.

St John of the Cross

Maintain an equipoise between fearless, bold action and quiet stillness

Contemplation is the highest form of action, because it transcends its nature. Contemplation unites one's action in the manifested world with one's meditation in the higher plane. Thus one achieves this equiposition, this perfect state of being.

Shut up and seek the Divine within, so you may understand, and thus manifest Divinity without. If you have not given up yourself to seek out God, you cannot understand. If you do not understand, you cannot be an effective conduit for God.

If you don't realize that this is the goal, you have a lot of work to do. And there is no excuse for not starting today.

Philosophy is the purification and perfection of human life. It is the purification, indeed, from material irrationality, and the mortal body; but the perfection, in consequence of being the resumption of our proper felicity, and a reascent to the divine likeness. To effect these two is the province of Virtue and Truth; the former exterminating the immoderation of the passions; and the latter introducing the divine form to those who are naturally adapted to its reception.

Hierocles, Commentary on the Golden Verses

One of the most damaging mischaracterizations of Platonic metaphysics is the idea that the material world is a "copy" of the divine immaterial world. While it is not totally wrong to speak in terms of copy, it can be misleading. Far from being a mere copy, our world is forever participating in the divine - to be sure, its participation is temporal and imperfect, but the key point is that it is an ongoing expression of divinity. The language of "copy" tends to degrade the universe whereas the correct understanding of participation actually elevates it.

I would highly suggest watching Keith Woods' recent video on Platonism. The talk includes many important contextual points in addition to a thorough and faithful explanation of Platonism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAI1RvGopjY

Ibrahim ibn Adham also called Ibrahim Balkhi (إبراهيم بن أدهم); c. 718 – c. 782 / AH c. 100 – c. 165 is one of the most prominent of the early ascetic Sufi saints.

The story of his conversion is one of the most celebrated in Sufi legend, as that of a prince renouncing his throne and choosing asceticism closely echoing the legend of Gautama Buddha. He received a warning from God, through Khidr who appeared to him twice & abdicated his throne to take up the ascetic life in Syria. His earliest spiritual master was a Christian monk named Simeon. According to the records of the Chishti Sufis, he is among their early masters.