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Notas sobre Moisés el Egipcio de Jan Assmann, 3

Ralph Cudworth, 1617–1688 2,609 words English original here Nota del Autor: El siguiente texto completa mis notas en el capítulo 3 de Moisés el Egipcio de Jann Assmann. Aunque el capítulo 3 de Moisés...

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Notes sur Moïse l’Egyptien, Partie 3

Ralph Cudworth, 1617–1688 2,795 words English original here Note de l’auteur : Le texte suivant complète mes notes sur le chapitre 3 du livre de Jan Assmann, Moïse l’Egyptien. Bien que le chapitre 3 de...

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Notes sur Moïse l’Egyptien, Partie 2

2,182 words John Spencer English original here Note de l’Auteur : A cause des réponses positives – online tout comme offline – à ma première série de notes, j’ai décidé de continuer les séries jusqu’à...

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Schopenhauer & Hitler, Part 3 Genius, Religion, & Compassion

Young Arthur Schopenhauer 1,950 words Part 3 of 3 Schopenhauer on Genius In contrast with the mediocre majority of mankind, there is the rare genius. Schopenhauer’s ruminations on the tragic loneliness...

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René Guénon & Integral Traditionalism

3,008 words Translated by G. A. Malvicini Elsewhere (in La Destra, in May 1972), we have discussed the necessary relationship of an authentic, non-makeshift Right with the concept of Tradition. In the...

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Zootopia: Persecution and the Art of Screenwriting

3,510 words Leo Strauss, in his 1952 book, Persecution and the Art of Writing, argues that great writers tend to write with multiple levels of meaning. Often writers have an exoteric message to avoid...

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Pizza & a Movie: Jay Dyer’s Esoteric Guide to Sex, Cults, & Videotape, Part One

4,196 words Part 1 of 3 Jay Dyer Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film Walterville, Or.: Trine Day, 2016 “A film is a ribbon of dreams. The camera is much more than a recording apparatus;...

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Pizza & a Movie: Jay Dyer’s Esoteric Guide to Sex, Cults, & Videotape, Part Two

2,718 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here) Jay Dyer Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film Walterville, Or.: Trine Day, 2016 The same explains the proliferation of “Gnostic” or “Illuminati”...

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Pizza & a Movie: Jay Dyer’s Esoteric Guide to Sex, Cults, & Videotape, Part...

3,623 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here; Part 2 here) Jay Dyer Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film Walterville, Or.: Trine Day, 2016 Part Four brings us “007 and Hitchcock,” and here Dyer...

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Current 93’s Swastikas for Noddy

2,254 words Current 93 is a neofolk group fronted by David Tibet. Its name is derived from Aleister Crowley’s numerological manipulation of the words Thelema and agape, the “93 Current” of the present...

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Changes’ Fire of Life

1,627 words Changes can be considered the very first example of a neofolk band. Formed in 1969 by cousins Robert N. Taylor and Nicholas Tesluk, Changes has its roots in the earliest days of the folk...

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Death in June & The People’s Temple Choir

1,444 words The Peoples Temple, the utopian death cult best known for the Jonestown Massacre, recorded a gospel album under the name of the People’s Temple Choir in 1973. Far from an amateurish...

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Pop Music is a Satanic Mind-Virus! Part 4: What to Do?

1,495 words Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 So, there are blacks with beats, heebs with chutzpah, and Swedes with serenity. What is a white dissident to do in an environment in which the talents of his people...

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Beast Men & BLM: Lanz von Liebenfels’ Prophetic Visions

5,583 words Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels Ostara and the New Templars Translated by George Klanderud GermanenOrden Series, vol. 4 The 55 Club, 2019 Deep-sea fish, bats, clairvoyant Frisians in foggy...

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Golden Gods & Guitars: Led Zeppelin IV

Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page (right), Chicago, 1977. 2,100 words Someone told me there’s a girl out there With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair — “Going to California” Led Zeppelin’s back...

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The Weird Victorians & the Last Enchanted Age

Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: a modern take on the motifs of the weird nineteenth century. 5,476 words It’s ill to loose the bands that God decreed to bind; Still we be the...

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Remembering Mr. Gurdjieff (January 13, 1866/1872/1877–October 24, 1949)

Mr. Gurdjieff 7,589 words George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born on this day in 1866, 1872, or 1877 — depending on whom you ask. [1] Much else about his biography is equally uncertain. We do know that his...

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Interview with George Burdi: Man Against the Modern World

George Burdi 2,079 words George Burdi is the warhorse of the white nationalist scene. He first became famous with his symphonic metal band Rahowa through the unique album Cult Of The Holy War, and...

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An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part XIII

3,988 words All installments of this series available here It has been some time since I have published an installment in this series (the last, in fact, was in November 2019). After more than a year...

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The Most Dangerous Game: Capital Riddles in Western Culture

“Off with her head!” An original illustration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (1864) 7,655 words The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. — D. H. Lawrence A question,...

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Beyond the Left-Hand & Right-Hand Paths

1,483 words If we believe that we are living in the dark age, or Kali Yuga, then we must believe that things will only continue to get worse before they get better. We should therefore look for silver...

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Savitri Devi, Traditionalism, & Nature Religion

6,192 words From Esotericism, Religion, and Nature (Studies in Esotericism), ed. Arthur Versluis, Claire Fanger, Lee Irwin, and Melinda Phillips (Mankato, Minnesota: North American Academic Press,...

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Remembering G. I. Gurdjieff: January 13, ca. 1866–October 29, 1949

Mr. Gurdjieff 1,577 words We are not exactly sure when George Ivanovich Gurdjieff arrived on this Earth, but it was probably January 13, around 1866. He was born in Alexandropol, then part of the...

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Remembering G. I. Gurdjieff

Mr. Gurdjieff 1,577 words We are not exactly sure when George Ivanovich Gurdjieff arrived on this Earth, but it was probably January 13, around 1866. He was born in Alexandropol, then part of the...

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National Socialism as a Magical Movement: Stephen E. Flowers’ The Occult in...

1,443 words Stephen E. Flowers The Occult in National Socialism: The Symbolic, Scientific, and Magical Influences on the Third Reich Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2022 In the realm of the occult...

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