Philosophy

Everything on philosophy related to Maier files series. Posts and Thoughts examining existence, change, properties, space, time, causality, and possibility.

Maier files – The Wound That Let The ‘Dark Angel’ In: What Weimar Really Lost

There is a question underneath all the history that nobody quite asks directly. Not who funded the chaos. Not which lodges were operating in Berlin. Not even which political movements rose from the rubble. Those are the visible branches of something deeper. The question that matters is this: what was the inner condition of a people when everything collapsed at once? Because the dark angel doesn’t force its way in. It finds a door already...

The Ministry of Silly Words

Somewhere in Germany right now, someone is filing a complaint about this sentence. Not because it contains anything illegal. That would be straightforward. No — because it contains something worse than illegal. It contains an opinion. And opinion, as we will see, is currently the most regulated substance in the Federal Republic. There is a reliable test for whether an ideology can survive contact with reality. Give it a debate. Not a moderated panel. Not...

The Eternal Carnival

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...

The Man Who Read 2026 in 1849

On January 4th, 1849, a Spanish diplomat stood up in the Cortes — the parliament in Madrid — and delivered a speech. Outside, Europe was still smouldering from the revolutions of 1848. Thrones had fallen. Streets had run with blood. The old order was cracking in every direction simultaneously. His name was Juan Donoso Cortés, Marqués de Valdegamas. He was forty years old. He would be dead in four years. And in that speech —...

Epictetus and his guidelines to be free!

What connections do you see?

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus had said: “A hidden connection is stronger than one we can see.” Otto Maier was always fascinated with Time. Things occupy space—but how many of them there are (or could be) belonging to time? If you take off the face of a clock you won’t find time there, only human fabrication. Those numbers, circling round, make time almost credible—as if they aroused a sixth sense attuned to its presence, since it...

Julius Evola’s Doctrine of Awakening

In the midst of a world engulfed in the flames of World War II and a tragic civil war in Italy, Julius Evola published his Doctrine of Awakening in 1943. This book, which delves into the depths of Buddhist thought and explores the nature of spirituality and tradition, is a testament to Evola’s ability to transcend the limitations of his time and challenge the modern world’s rejection of traditional values. Evola’s Doctrine of Awakening is...

The paradox of the love mystery

The Evolution of Civilizations

The Evolution of Civilizations expresses two dimensions of its author, Carroll Quigley, that most extraordinary historian, philosopher, and teacher. In the first place, its scope is wide-ranging, covering the whole of man’s activities throughout time. Second, it is analytic, not merely descriptive. It attempts a categorization of man’s activities in sequential fashion so as to provide a causal explanation of the stages of civilization. Quigley coupled enormous capacity for work with a peculiarly “scientific” approach....

Arthur’s Grail

The Hidden Wisdom in Arthur’s Grail – In the Celtic sources that are the assumed origin of the Arthurian legends, we are told that the Grail is a cauldron, a symbol both of fertility and immortality. The cauldron was a powerful religious icon of its day. As mentioned earlier in another post, it brought forth marvellous and magical feasts, revitalizing and resurrecting great and powerful armies. According to Gardiner, as he wrote in his book...