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The Problem of Democracy by Alain de Benoist

Those who love to regurgitate the word ‘democracy’ are usually those who know little about its meaning in the first place. One could draw a parallel with a criminal on trial who never calls himself a crook. It is only his accusers who call him a crook. De Benoist rightly states that every single political actor today, regardless of which corner of the Earth in which he may dwell, likes to decorate himself with the...

How conscious are you?

Meister Eckhart (the thirtheenth-century German mystic) once said, “if you fight your death, you’ll feel the demons tearing away your life, but, if you have the right attitude to death, you will be able to see that the devils are really angels setting your spirit free. In the ancient belief systems, the being who guides the human spirit through the underworld and helps negotiate the way past the guardian demons is the god of planet...

The Twelve Knights

Giordano Bruno and Heresy

He who desires to philosophize must first of all doubt all things. He must not assume a position in a debate before he has listened to the various opinions, and considered and compared the reasons for and against. Never judge or take up a position on the evidence of what he has heard, on the opinion of the majority, the age, merits, or prestige of the speaker concerned, but he must proceed according to the...

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Descartes radical shift in mathematics

If you have been the proverbial fly on the wall in Descartes’s bed-room in La Flèche, in southern France, in 1636, you may have watched Descartes laying in bed observing you. His most remarkable idea came to him while observing a fly crawl along a curved path, which he thought about illustrating in terms of its distance from the walls. A revolution in thought was in the making; mathematics would certainly never be similar. The...

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The Lost History of Esoteric Writing

Philosophical esotericism —the practice of communicating one’s unorthodox thoughts “between the lines”— was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous Encyclopédie of Diderot, for instance, not only discusses this practice in over twenty different articles, but admits to employing it itself. The history of Western thought contains hundreds of such statements by major philosophers testifying to the use of esoteric writing in their own work or others’. Despite this long...

The Foundation of Human Rights: A Misguided Universalism

Beyond Human Rights: Defending Freedoms by Alain de Benoist is a profound critique of modern human rights, challenging the ideological underpinnings that have transformed them from a means of protecting individual freedoms into a tool for homogenization and global political dominance. De Benoist delves into the historical and philosophical roots of human rights, arguing that their current form has deviated far from their original intent and has been weaponized to serve Western hegemonic interests. One...

Revolt against the Modern World

Good? — by what standard? by Ayn Rand

John Galt, in Atlas Shrugged: “Through centuries of scourges and disasters, brought about by your code of morality, you have cried that your code had been broken, that the scourges were punishment for breaking it, that men were too weak and too selfish to spill all the blood it required. You damned man, you damned existence, you damned this earth, but never dared to question your code. … You went on crying that your code...

The Decline of the West: A Traditionalist Perspective on the Crisis of Modernity

In “Crisis of the Modern World,” René Guénon vividly describes a troubling phenomenon: the spread of Western confusion into the East, threatening the very foundations of ancient traditions. This theme of decline, which echoes through the works of both Guénon and Julius Evola, challenges us to confront the forces undermining the spiritual and intellectual foundations of society. The decline of the West is not merely a regional issue; it is a global crisis that demands...