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An archive of thought pieces and blog postings. 

Saturday, 18 Jan 2025

Living thought as Logos

Thursday, 9 Jan 2025

Ultimate hypostasis

Monday, 6 Jan 2025

Being: what is it?

Wednesday, 26 Jan 2022

Resurrection of the self



Sunday, 3 Mar 2013

The Worst Form of Slavery

Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019

‘Truth’: a cruel, elaborate and stultifying fiction

Saturday, 18 Feb 2023

'Violating 0', '1=0', 'New life v 0' and 'Violation comes first'

Monday, 16 May 2022

Precursors

Thursday, 6 Oct 2022

Rudolf Steiner on Man in our epoch

Sunday, 3 Mar 2013

The Worst Form of Slavery

Monday, 5 Aug 2013

Rethinking Heidegger and St Edith Stein

Sunday, 15 May 2022

Contentment

Saturday, 14 May 2022

Being: what is it?

Saturday, 14 May 2022

This time as as a personalised narrative

Saturday, 14 May 2022

Beginning, always 2

Saturday, 14 May 2022

Beginning, always

Saturday, 14 May 2022

One nothing

Friday, 13 May 2022

Where the immanence?

Monday, 22 Jul 2013

Are the principles of tradition possible without the old forms?

Sunday, 7 Jul 2013

Stein beyond Heidegger

Tuesday, 2 Jul 2013

This worldly life

Tuesday, 19 Apr 2022

Everything amazing

Tuesday, 5 Apr 2022

Over-hasty Nietzsche

Tuesday, 2 Jul 2013

The very opposite of freedom

Wednesday, 23 Feb 2022

Thus spake

Tuesday, 29 Dec 2020

Shunning idolatry

Tuesday, 2 Jul 2013

Marx, opium and despair

Tuesday, 2 Jul 2013

A challenge to the presumptions of Western philosophy

Sunday, 16 Jan 2022

Supra-sensual power

Wednesday, 29 Dec 2021

Thinking:

Tuesday, 2 Jul 2013

Heidegger and Job 1:21

Wednesday, 29 Dec 2021

Questions

Wednesday, 22 Dec 2021

Arturo Reghini and Julius Evola

Tuesday, 14 Dec 2021

Absolute freedom

Thursday, 9 Dec 2021

Evola and Right action

Friday, 3 Dec 2021

Evola and Eckart

Thursday, 25 Nov 2021

Raj ghost

Wednesday, 24 Nov 2021

Poetic human love

Wednesday, 24 Nov 2021

Know the reality

Wednesday, 24 Nov 2021

Thoughts on love prompted by Rudolf Steiner

Wednesday, 24 Nov 2021

Deathly frivolity

Wednesday, 24 Nov 2021

Clearing in the forest

Friday, 19 Nov 2021

Siege mentality

Friday, 19 Nov 2021

Outsider

Friday, 19 Nov 2021

Violated

Friday, 19 Nov 2021

Love destruction

Friday, 19 Nov 2021

Anti-entropic

Friday, 19 Nov 2021

'Smashing eggs'

Thursday, 4 Nov 2021

Human Zoo

Thursday, 4 Nov 2021

Under a great yew tree

Thursday, 4 Nov 2021

Reflections on Dante’s Divine Comedy

Thursday, 4 Nov 2021

Light passed through

Thursday, 4 Nov 2021

Swinburne walking

Thursday, 4 Nov 2021

Swinburne's constitutional

Thursday, 4 Nov 2021

Swinburne walks in living memory

Thursday, 4 Nov 2021

Longer Swinburne walks

Thursday, 4 Nov 2021

'Run down' to Putney

Sunday, 3 Mar 2013

The Worst Form of Slavery

Saturday, 22 May 2021

Aleister Crowley: One like the others

Saturday, 22 May 2021

Illusory manifestation

Saturday, 22 May 2021

Holy Fool

Tuesday, 4 May 2021

Ananke - Eros

Sunday, 2 May 2021

How happy ye mortals

Saturday, 30 Jan 2021

The machinations of Heidegger

Friday, 29 Jan 2021

Heidegger and improvised being

Tuesday, 19 Jan 2021

'Demolishing the house of being'

Tuesday, 19 Jan 2021

Lurianic Derrida

Monday, 24 Aug 2020

Confession to Beatrice

Tuesday, 11 Aug 2020

Schelling's romantic Spinozism

Friday, 1 May 2020

Heidegger under the carpet

Thursday, 9 Apr 2020

Heidegger in a destitute time

Tuesday, 31 Mar 2020

Escaping Spinozist hypostasis - (Hell in Dante’s terms)

Sunday, 29 Mar 2020

Felix culpa

Sunday, 3 Mar 2013

Roger Garaudy, René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon and Baron Julius Evola

Friday, 21 Feb 2020

Coleridge - On the Constitution of the State and Church

Monday, 27 Jan 2020

Summoning and synthesis

Tuesday, 17 Dec 2019

Gentile counters the Doctrine of Realism

Monday, 2 Dec 2019

Cosmic mediator

Thursday, 19 Sep 2019

Trumping God

Thursday, 14 Nov 2019

Teetering on the edge of revelation

Sunday, 10 Nov 2019

Cosmic Mediator 2

Monday, 7 Oct 2019

The power of one

Saturday, 5 Oct 2019

Gentile ‘meets’ Steiner

Wednesday, 21 Aug 2019

Coleridge, Vico and Gentile

Monday, 19 Aug 2019

Grail question

Thursday, 15 Aug 2019

Sam Decker and the grail vision in John Cowper Powys’s Glastonbury Romance - some thoughts

Friday, 7 Jun 2019

Fichtean successor to feudalism

Tuesday, 23 Apr 2019

The mask of Marxism

Friday, 19 Apr 2019

Anti-globalist Fichte

Wednesday, 17 Apr 2019

Fichte's Closed Commercial State

Wednesday, 10 Apr 2019

State within a state

Wednesday, 3 Apr 2019

Distinguished man

Tuesday, 2 Apr 2019

Moral destiny


Friday, 29 Mar 2019

Humanism restored

Tuesday, 26 Mar 2019

Spinozism as Marxism

Monday, 25 Mar 2019

What ought to be

Thursday, 31 Jan 2019

Comatose subject

Sunday, 27 Jan 2019

Sin's redeeming power

Saturday, 26 Jan 2019

Death of the self

Friday, 25 Jan 2019

Transmogrified Spinozism

Thursday, 20 Sep 2018

'I will not be a doge'

Sunday, 12 Aug 2018

'Human god'

Sunday, 5 Aug 2018

Monstrous Spinoza

Monday, 23 Jul 2018

Unquestioned presupposition

Friday, 20 Jul 2018

The siren screams

Saturday, 7 Jul 2018

In a straightjacket

Thursday, 5 Jul 2018

Swayambhu suppressed

Tuesday, 3 Jul 2018

To bring a sword

Saturday, 30 Jun 2018

Promethean flame

Wednesday, 27 Jun 2018

Swayambhu the 'Self-Created, the Self-Existent'

Saturday, 23 Jun 2018

Consolatory counterweight

Wednesday, 13 Jun 2018

All is biography

Tuesday, 12 Jun 2018

At behest of usura

Monday, 11 Jun 2018

Strange borderlands

Sunday, 10 Jun 2018

On the particularity

Monday, 4 Jun 2018

A warning from Jünger

Monday, 4 Jun 2018

Sheep to the lampooners

Monday, 4 Jun 2018

Quixotic confrontation with the rock

Monday, 21 May 2018

Speaking tool

Monday, 21 May 2018

For consciousness

Friday, 11 May 2018

For the unconscious

Friday, 11 May 2018

Stirner - the most 'free'

Wednesday, 9 May 2018

Powerless before the impersonal thought of globalised capitalism

Wednesday, 13 Dec 2017

Thought as collective, co-operative activity

Friday, 11 Aug 2017

Hegel and the enigma of thought

Tuesday, 27 Jun 2017

Consciousness, not blind creativity.

Wednesday, 10 May 2017

Cruel, elaborate and stultifying fiction

Monday, 17 Apr 2017

Red flag and swastika

Thursday, 9 Mar 2017

A mind freed from the false opinions of the multitude

Monday, 27 Feb 2017

Concatenation of principles

Wednesday, 22 Feb 2017

The meaning of the Tragedy of Mark

Friday, 27 Jan 2017

Beware contentment!

Friday, 27 Jan 2017

No op.33 Haydn, no Beethoven

Thursday, 26 Jan 2017

Convergence into the One

Thursday, 12 Jan 2017

Jehovah the tempestuous

Wednesday, 2 Nov 2016

The mighty George Gemistos Plethon

Thursday, 20 Oct 2016

Dante’s stand against ‘the poison of representation’

Thursday, 20 Oct 2016

Dante’s pilgrimage to the mind of man

Tuesday, 11 Oct 2016

Only ‘the few’ are human

Monday, 10 Oct 2016

Human imagination, the uncontrollable element

Saturday, 8 Oct 2016

Bernardus Silvestris, the Cosmographia

Tuesday, 4 Oct 2016

The pseudo-Dionysius: precursor of Renaissance humanism

Monday, 3 Oct 2016

Gregory’s way to Eleusis

Saturday, 1 Oct 2016

The inexhaustible source of light

Saturday, 10 Sep 2016

Mark’s Gospel as Greek tragedy

Saturday, 23 Jul 2016

The history of Christianity must be revised

Monday, 14 Jan 2013

Extending the borders of Usura

Wednesday, 11 May 2016

Oswald Spengler on ethical socialism

Wednesday, 23 Mar 2016

For Bolshevism insert liberalism

Thursday, 21 Jan 2016

C.H. Sisson and Ezra Pound

Sunday, 31 Mar 2013

Garaudy and the religious dimension

Monday, 14 Jan 2013

Roger Garaudy and Freedom

Saturday, 22 Aug 2015

She offers freedom yet enslaves

Monday, 20 Jul 2015

Pound, Plato and Aristotle

Monday, 20 Jul 2015

Imbecility, trying to decide on the form of govt, for all other races

Friday, 29 May 2015

It all began with money

Friday, 29 May 2015

Dante and the power of the mind to shape worlds

Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Usury is contra naturam

Tuesday, 19 May 2015

A quick thought on how Martin Heidegger's work relates to art

Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Worker as an organic part of the nation

Monday, 20 Jul 2015

Kenneth Clark - Looking for Civilisation

Monday, 10 Nov 2014

Jesus and political action

Thursday, 23 Apr 2015

Christianity’s new rootedness

Monday, 20 Apr 2015

Evola and Jünger: convergence of thought

Monday, 20 Apr 2015

Ernst Jünger on Max Stirner

Monday, 20 Apr 2015

Max Stirner on society as prison

Monday, 20 Apr 2015

Every ego is from birth a criminal

Monday, 20 Apr 2015

Dora Marsden: individualist anarchist

Thursday, 19 Feb 2015

Did not the Pharisees genuinely believe that they were the good and the just?

Thursday, 19 Feb 2015

But don't the tarantulas now have total power?

Thursday, 19 Feb 2015

Nietzsche’s Zarathustra knew that traditionalism is the future and our redemption

Monday, 9 Feb 2015

Simone Weil on hierachy - liberal and traditional

Friday, 30 Jan 2015

A Zoroastrian reflection of heaven on earth

Friday, 30 Jan 2015

The struggle between good and evil, the essential wheel in the working of things

Friday, 30 Jan 2015

Plethon on eliminating the merchant class from government

Saturday, 24 Jan 2015

The truth will be counter-intuitive

Sunday, 11 Jan 2015

Little Gidding: symbol of resistance

Sunday, 28 Dec 2014

Only dead fish swim with the stream, it has been said*

Friday, 19 Dec 2014

Our wills become one single will

Wednesday, 10 Dec 2014

Alternatives to modernist progressivism in the work of Gemistus Pletho, or Plethon

Wednesday, 10 Dec 2014

The height of knowledge in Christendom

Sunday, 13 Jan 2013

Roger Garaudy: "The creative act is the fundamental experience and the revelation of the divine within us"

Tuesday, 7 Jan 2014

Martin Heidegger’s counter-revolution in thinking

Wednesday, 4 Dec 2013

Ezra Pound on the antithesis of good and evil as the driver of history

Wednesday, 4 Dec 2013

Martin Luther and the new paideuma

Wednesday, 4 Dec 2013

Ezra Pound: financiers thriving on ignorance

Wednesday, 4 Dec 2013

Ezra Pound on two mystic states.

Wednesday, 4 Dec 2013

Reformation and the new paideuma

Wednesday, 20 Nov 2013

Awakening from the nightmare of liberal democracy

Tuesday, 12 Nov 2013

Weil, Belloc and tradition

Tuesday, 5 Nov 2013

A coalition against liberalism

Tuesday, 5 Nov 2013

T. S. Eliot and Simone Weil

Monday, 5 Aug 2013

Heidegger’s Turn Against Humanism

Tuesday, 2 Apr 2013

Roger Garaudy

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