Decay constantly attacks the potential of unrealized action. Entropy always weakens the inactive will. Death awaits those who rest; immortality awaits those who Will and Act.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒕 𝑬𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒊𝒙 𝑨𝒍𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑴𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔:

"And these mountains which thine eyes have seen,
The mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver,
And the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the mountain of lead,
All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One
As wax: before the fire,
And like the water which streams down from above [upon those mountains],
And they shall become powerless before his feet.
And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved,
Either by gold or by silver,
And none be able to escape.
And there shall be no iron for war,
Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate.
Bronze shall be of no service,
And tin [shall be of no service and] shall not be esteemed,
And lead shall not be desired.
And all these things shall be [denied and] destroyed from the surface of the earth,
When the Elect One shall appear before the face of the Lord of Spirits."
- Book of Enoch 52: 6-9

'Demonic' are those worlds called,
in blind darkness they are cloaked;
Into them after death they go,
all those people who kill The Self

Isha Upanishad, 3

“I confess your goodness to me has been extreme. I will preserve to my dying breath the respect, duty, and tenderness which I owe you; but is it possible that you should desire me to prefer worldly greatness to my salvation? I value the crown as nothing; I am ready to lose the scepter and life too, rather than abandon the divine truth.”
– Saint Hermenegild, King of the Visigoths.

"I shall die ! I shall die ! . . . but no matter, no matter.
. . . The cause has been launched and will not die. ... I know the roads this cause will travel. The tribes of Jenghiz Khan's successors are awakened. Nobody shall extinguish the fire in the heart of the Mongols! In Asia there will be a great State from the Pacific and Indian Oceans to the shore of the Volga. The wise religion of Buddha shall run to the north and the west. It will be the victory of the spirit. A conqueror and leader will appear stronger and more stalwart than Jenghiz Khan and Ugadai. He will be more clever and more merciful than Sultan Baber and he will keep power in his hands until the happy day when, from his subterranean capital, shall emerge the King of the World. Why, why shall I not be in the first ranks of the warriors of Buddhism Why has Karma decided so? But so it must be!” - Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg

(Source: "Beasts, Men And Gods" by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, pp. 265-266)

"For others, it seems rather to be: is he Christian or pagan? For our part, we do not think that such a point of view is necessary, for true esoterism is something completely different from outward religions, and if it has some relationship with it, this can only be insofar as it finds a symbolic mode of expression in religious forms. Moreover, it matters little whether these forms be of this or that religion, since what is involved is the essential doctrinal unity concealed beneath their apparent diversity. This is why initiates have always participated without scruple in all forms of worship, following the established customs wherever they happened to be. Dante understood this fundamental unity also, and for this reason - and not by virtue of any superficial 'syncretism' - employed a terminology borrowed indifferently from Christianity and Greco-Roman antiquity, as circumstances required. Pure metaphysics is neither pagan nor Christian, but universal."

from 'The Esoterism of Dante' by René Guénon

Debating dogmas is unequivocally un-aristocratic

'Plato knew as well as the Scholastic philosophers that the artist as such has no moral responsibilities, and can sin as an artist only if he fails to consider the sole good of the work to be done, whatever it may be.*1

But like Cicero, Plato also knows that “though he is an artist, he is nevertheless a man”*2 and, if a free man, responsible as such for whatever it may be that he undertakes to make; a man who, if he represents what ought not to be represented and brings into being things unworthy of free men, should be punished, or at the least restrained or exiled like any other criminal or madman.

It is precisely those poets or other artists who imitate anything and everything, and are not ashamed to represent or even “idealize” things essentially base, that Plato, without respect for their abilities, however great, would banish from the society of rational men, “lest from the imitation of shameful things men should imbibe their actuality,”*3.' - Ananda Coomaraswamy

*1 Laws 670E; Sum Theol. 1.91.3, I-II.57 ad 2.
*2 Cicero, Pro quinctio xxv.78.
*3 Republic 395c; cf 395-401, esp. 401BC, 605-607, and Laws 656c.

A GLIMPSE OF THE HEIGHTS

In these lessons we shall ask you to consider certain fundamental reports of the reason, and the conclusions arising therefrom. In order that you may understand that which the Axioms of REALITY are designed to unfold into your conscious recognition,—that you may see in advance the aim and goal of the journey,—we invite you to carefully consider the following Fundamental Postulate in which is condensed the spirit of the basic teaching embodied in these lessons. A "Postulate" is "something asserted, to which assent is challenged or demanded."

In the Axioms of REALITY , and the teaching based thereon in the following lessons, the points covered by the Fundamental Postulate will be unfolded gradually, argued logically, and the reports of reason stated. In the Fundamental Postulate we are afforded a glimpse of the Path over which we shall travel,and the heights which we shall attain. In the Axioms of REALITY we have the various ledges or planes of the inquiry. Step by step we shall advance on the Path. Each Axiom affords a resting place and a halt. The student should master each step, and never leave the resting place of any Axiom until he has fully acquainted himself with it and associated it with those which precede it.

FUNDAMENTAL POSTULATE

I. There exists an ultimate, infinite, and eternal principle of REALITY which is the essence, nature, substance, and principle of All-that-is. This principle of REALITY is the certain Something which abides, invariable and constant, as the essential principle in all things, all creatures, all entities, all beings, and which precedes and survives all their changes of form, shape, state, and condition. This principle ever remains itself, notwithstanding the infinite and eternal change in form, shape, state, and condition in which it may occur, appear, or present itself. This ultimate, infinite, and eternal principle is known as REALITY .

II. REALITY is Absolute Unity. It is Independent and Free; Whole, Complete, and Perfect; Original and Causeless; Eternal; Infinite; Ultimate; Absolute; Formless; Indivisible; and Immutable. REALITY is Infinite Substance, Infinite Energy, Infinite Life, Infinite Law,Infinite Mind.

III. REALITY is in Eternal Creation. It is the support and background for the phenomenal appearance of numberless universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing. It is the changeless REALITY manifesting the eternal law of change. It is the unconditioned and absolute ground for all that exists conditionally. In Itself it is All-That-Is. In its Creation it is All-that-Appears; uncreate, it is The-All. Its Creation appears as the Cosmos.

IV. The Universe, with all contained therein, is created in and by REALITY considered as Infinite Mind. All Creation exists as Idea in the Infinite Mind of REALITY . The Will of REALITY is Universal Energy. The Pure Logic of REALITY is Universal Law. The Being of REALITY is Universal Life. The Substance of REALITY is Universal Substance. The Infinite Mind of REALITY , in its Ideative and Volitional activities, is the Creative and Conative Power of the Universe.

V. REALITY is immanent in its Creation, and in every part thereof. In the characters of its conscious creations it manifests itself as the artist in his work, the poet, playwright, or writer in his characters. The created universe is the cosmic dramatization of REALITY , through which it lives and acts, moves and plays its infinitude of parts. REALITY , being indivisible and immutable, is imminent in each of its creations in its Totality of Being. In and back of each conscious being is the Presence and Power of REALITY . REALITY is immanent in You. Hence the following:

MESSAGE OF REALITY

There is one principle of REALITY —the essence, nature, substance, and principle of All-that-is. This principle— REALITY —always remains itself, indivisible and immutable, notwithstanding the infinity of apparent differences in manifestation of form, shape, state, or condition under which it occurs, appears, or presents itself in the phenomenal universe. You yourself are the Manifestation of that principle—REALITY . And, likewise, You are identical with it in the totality of its essence, nature, substance, and REALITY . The recognition of this Identity by the Intellect constitutes the perception of Truth; the realization of it by Intuition constitutes Illumination; the manifestation of it by Volition constitutes Mastery.

- From The Mastery of Being: A Study of the Ultimate Principle of Reality & the Practical Application Thereof by William Walker Atkinson

Logological Fragments I

3. Someone speaking thinks and produces—someone listening reflects—and reproduces. Words are a deceptive medium for what is already thought—unreliable vehicles of a particular, specific stimulus. The true teacher is a guide. If the pupil genuinely desires truth it requires only a hint to show him how to find what he is seeking. Accordingly the representation of philosophy consists purely of themes—of initial propositions—principles. It exists only for autonomous lovers of truth. The analytical exposition of the theme is only for those who are sluggish or unpracticed. The latter must learn thereby how to fly and keep themselves moving in particular direction.

Attentiveness is a centripetal force. The effective relation between that which is directed and the object of the direction begins with the given direction. If we hold fast to this direction we are apodictically certain of teaching the goal that has been set.

True collaboration in philosophy then is a common movement toward a beloved world—whereby we relieve each other in the most advanced outpost, a movement that demands the greatest effort against the resisting element within which we are flying.

7. When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.

20. There are certain poetic works within us that have quite a different character from the others, for they are accompanied by a sense of necessity, and yet there exists simply no other external reason for them. A person believes he is involved in a conversation and some kind of unknown, spiritual being in a miraculous way causes him to think the most obvious thoughts. This being must be a higher being, because it communicates with him in a way that is not possible for any being which is bound to appearances. It must be a like being, because it treats him like a spiritual being and only requires the rarest independent activity of him. This higher being has to nature or the wise man to the child. The human being yearns to be the equal of this being in the same way as he seeks to make himself the equal of the nonself.

The fact cannot be demonstrated. Everyone must experience it for himself. It is a fact of a higher kind that will be encountered only by the higher man. But people should strive to bring it about in themselves.

The kind of knowledge that arises in this way is the higher theory of knowledge. Here the proposition: self determines nonself—is the principle of the practical part. The practical part comprises the self-education of the self toward becoming capable of that communication [with a higher being] —the theoretical part comprises the characteristics of genuine communication. Rites are part of education. . .

21. Doing philosophy is a conversation with oneself of the above kind—an actual revelation of the self—arousal of the real self through the ideal self. Doing philosophy is the foundation of all other revelations. The decision to do philosophy is a challenge to the real self to reflect, to awaken and to be spirit. Without philosophy there is no true morality, and without morality no philosophy.

— Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg)

Logological Fragments II

27. The fate which oppresses us is the inertia of our spirit. Through extending and cultivating our activity we shall transform ourselves into fate. Everything seems to stream inward into us, because we do not stream outward. We are negative because we want to be—the more positive we become, the more negative will the world around us become—until at last there will be no more negation—but instead we are all in all.
God wants there to be gods.
Is not our body in itself nothing but a common central effect of our senses—if we have mastery over our senses—if we are able to transform them into activity at will—to center them at a common point, then it only depends on us—to give ourselves the body we want.

28. To some extent the painter already has the eye—the musician the ear—the poet the imaginative power—the speech organ, and the sensation—or rather several organs at once—whose effects he combines and directs toward the speech organ or toward the hand—(the philosopher is the absolute organ)—in his power—and is active through them at will, he represents the world of spirits through them at will. Genius is nothing but spirit in this active use of the organs. Up to now we have had only single genius—but the spirit is to become total genius.

41. Poetry is the hero of philosophy. Philosophy raises poetry to the status of a principle. It teaches us to recognize the worth of poetry. Philosophy is the theory of poetry. It shows us what poetry is, that it is one and all.

46. The true poet is all-knowing—he is a real world in miniature.

50. Everything that is lovable is an object (a thing)—that which is infinitely lovable is an infinite thing—something one can have only by ceaseless, infinite activity. One can only possess a thing.

— Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg)

What is the pax deorum?

Pax deorum (“peace of the gods”) denotes the central goal of the Roman state religion: a mutually beneficial state of peace between Rome and its deities, with the gods safeguarding Rome's public welfare (salus publica) and the Romans providing the gods their desired worship and cult.

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February 24 - Extinguishing of the sacred fire of Vesta

On February 24 of 391 CE, as a result of the Theodosian decrees aimed at banning any cult other than Christianity in the Roman Empire, the sacred fire that had been burning for a millennium in the temple of the goddess Vesta in Rome was extinguished.

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