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Mystical Anthropology

Mystical Anthropology, edited by John Arblaster and Rob Faesen, offers an in-depth exploration of the unique perspectives on the human soul as articulated by medieval mystics from the Low Countries, such as John of Ruusbroec. These thinkers sought to answer profound questions about the soul’s structure, its relationship with God, and how the human person can attain divine union. By contrasting these medieval views with modern thought, the book challenges readers to reconsider how spirituality...

The Mystical Depths of Tristan und Isolde

In the realm of myth and music, the story of Tristan und Isolde holds a profound place, delving into the mystique of love and death. This article explores the deeper, perhaps occult, significance of the Tristan und Isolde myth, using insights from Denis de Rougemont’s “L’amour et l’Occident” and Robert A. Johnson’s “Die Traumvorstellung Liebe – Der Irrtum des Abendlandes.” By examining Richard Wagner’s music drama, we unravel the layers of Tristan’s quest for his...

The Problem of Democracy by Alain de Benoist

Who is the fairest of them all?

The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. So began...

Two Prisoners

Imagine two men. They have never met. They are sitting in separate rooms with no way to communicate. Each has been told the same thing: if you stay silent, and the other man also stays silent, you both walk free after one year. If you betray him and he stays silent, you go free immediately and he serves ten years. If he betrays you and you stay silent, you serve ten. If you both betray...

A secret message to Goethe

The Hidden Reality

The hidden Reality and Parallel Universes. Space and time capture the imagination like no other scientific subject. For good reason. They form the arena of reality, the very fabric of the cosmos. Our entire existence-everything we do, think, and experience takes place in some region of space during some interval of time. Yet science is still struggling to understand what space and time actually are. Are they real physical entities or simply useful ideas? If...

When fiction becomes reality, Black Lodges

In the occult scene of the late nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries, a black lodge was a term for occult orders and secret societies dedicated to the study and routine of evil magick. Many of the occult authors of this period treat the presence and activities of the Black Lodges as a matter of common knowledge. They discuss in detail the contrasts between the genuine way of occult initiation and the corrupt way. Black Lodges...

Maier files & Rolf Dietrich

Everyone Knows Kant. Nobody Tells You What He Actually Found.

Today is Kant’s 302nd birthday. (April 22) He was born in Königsberg, Prussia. He lived there his entire life. He died there. In eighty years he never once felt the need to go further than a day’s walk from where he entered the world. The neighbours set their clocks by his afternoon walk. Every day. Same route. Same time. For decades. Most people read this as an eccentricity. A quirk of an otherwise towering mind....

The Measured Illusion

If you calibrate your scale to weigh only objects between one and ten pounds, you will conclude — after a thorough and methodologically rigorous investigation — that everything in the world weighs between one and ten pounds. Your data will be clean. Your results will be reproducible. Peer review will confirm your findings, because every reviewer is using the same scale. You have not discovered a universal limit. You have restricted your tool — and...