Philosophy

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

Aletheia is truth or disclosure in philosophy

Aletheia, the Greek word for truth, typically stands for the correctness of a thought, perception, or assertion, and, in fact, as early as Homer, a cognate of correctness, homoiosis, served as a synonym for it. According to Heidegger, this construal of aletheia derives from its more basic meaning as un-hiddenness, where the privative prefix ‘un-’ apes the corresponding privative Greek prefix ‘a-’ in ‘a-letheia’ and ‘letheia’ derives from words for the hidden or forgotten. For...

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 Quest for Truth

The Door and the Destination

Last week we followed the initiatory roots of the man who founded Germany’s most influential ‘Germanic’ esoteric society. Those roots pointed to Turkey, to Sufi orders, to a Jewish Rosicrucian merchant — anywhere but the tradition the organisation claimed to be recovering. This week: why that pattern wasn’t unique to Sebottendorf. And what genuine Northern transmission actually looks like. Related: The Man Behind the Germanic Robes There is a difference between a teacher who is...

The Language They Had to Dilute

There is a grammatical fact that most people walk past without noticing. Germanic languages — German, Dutch, the Scandinavian tongues, and their ancestor Old English — have no true future tense. This is not a curiosity. It is not a limitation. It is a complete philosophy of time, encoded in the structure of the language itself, and it has been sitting in plain sight for as long as these languages have been spoken. The Missing...

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

Do you know what time it is?

Do you know what time it is? That question may perhaps be asked a lot more these days than ever. In our clock-studded modern society, the answer is only a peek away, therefore we are able to “blissfully” partition our days into ever smaller sized increments for ever more neatly scheduled jobs, assured that we will always know it really is now 7:03 a.m. Contemporary scientific revelations regarding time, however, turn the question indefinitely frustrating....

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...

Language is the soul of a people

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...

Wagner and Schopenhauer

When reading Otto Maier’s journals and stumbling on his musical (harmony) ideas, the illusionary world and the references to the division “Parzival” one will meet without doubt Wagner and Schopenhauer. Philosophical ideas profoundly inspired Wagner. Not in a dilettante fashion, but out of genuine interest, passionate need, and deep study. In early adulthood he was a real revolutionary socialist and a comrade of Mikhail Bakunin, in whose company he manned the barricades in the Dresden uprising of...