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What we find, therefore, is a strong tension between two opposed tendencies: on the one hand, a historically/chronologically oriented narrative of ancient wisdom which held considerable revolutionary potential, and, on the other, an essentially conservative…
Read more of Wouter Hanegraaff on prisca theologia, philosophia perennis & pia philosophia
Среди интереснѣйшихъ книгъ, прочитанныхъ въ этомъ году, были “Современное состояніе вопроса о реликтовыхъ гоминидахъ” Б.Ф. Поршнева и “Against the Modern World” Марка Седжвика. Соположеніе ихъ, такимъ образомъ, довольно случайно, но представляется мнѣ иллюстративнымъ. По критеріямъ…
For a century and a half after Ficino, the idea that there was a Perennial Philosophy [the idea that “[a]ll religions shared a common origin in a single perennial (or primeval or primordial) religion that…
Read more of Mark Sedgwick (& René Guénon) on the key concepts of Traditionalism
In the euphoria of early September 1919, the “transtemporal task” that Heidegger already saw outlined ahead of him — the art of “new seeing in principle” and pushing forward into a new “problem horizon” —…
Read more of Wolfram Eilenberger on Heidegger’s idea of inversion
Закрадывается мысль, будто бы судьба ныне, кажется, совершенно увядшаго и маргинализировавшагося традиціонализма – и въ какой-то мѣрѣ и гуманитарнаго знанія въ цѣломъ – могла сложиться нѣсколько по-другому, если бы не убійство профессора Іоана Куліану въ…
Like Moses (according to legend), Hegel is the recipient of Kabbalistic wisdom, only it is a Christian Kabbalah, and it is received not directly from God but from Böhme, Oetinger, and the tradition of speculative…
Hegel’s attitude toward the Hermetic tradition was cautious, but cautiously approving. Hegel saw the Hermetic tradition as a manifestation of unconscious wisdom, of the perennial philosophy, struggling to transcend its purely sensuous form. This explains…
Read more of Glenn Magee on Hegel and the equation of mysticism with rationality
There are references throughout Hegel’s published and unpublished writings to many of the leading figures and movements of the Hermetic tradition. These references are in large measure approving. This is particularly the case with Hegel’s…
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Russian Eurasianism has various origins, the earliest of which is the work of the nineteenth-century philosopher Konstantin Nikolayevich Leontyev, who articulated ancient convictions of “Russian particularism.” It was found also in Russian émigré writers of…
Read more of Mark Sedgwick on Halford Mackinder and Russian Eurasianism
Although Traditionalism was of necessity limited to dissident circles until the era of Perestroika, there were already Russian Traditionalists in the 1960s. Traditionalism first entered the Soviet Union through the Lenin Library in Moscow, which,…