Halls of the Hyperboreads

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"The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust." ~T.S. Eliot IMPERIVM

"𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍" - 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒏 𝑯𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏

“But, father, what would be the best way to gain an advantage over the enemy?” “By Zeus,” said he, “this is no easy or simple question that you ask now, my son; but, let me tell you, the man who proposes to do that must be designing and cunning, wily and deceitful, a thief and a robber, overreaching the enemy at every point.” “O Heracles, father,” said Cyrus with a laugh, “what a man you say I must become!” “Such, my son,” he said, “that you would be at the same time the most righteous and law-abiding man in the world.” “Why then, pray, did you use to teach us the opposite of this when we were boys and youths?” “Aye, by Zeus,” said he; “and so we would have you still towards your friends and fellow-citizens; but, that you might be able to hurt your enemies, do you not know that you all were learning many villainies?” ~ Xenophon, Cyropaedia

#Meme Friday

There are no non-combatants in the apocalypse.

Remember No matter what you do, you will always have your detractors. This will never cease to occur. Do not change your course to critics. Hear the constructive criticism from close friends, and take it under advisement. Even then, be prepared to walk alone. Be spiritually self-confident and, if necessary, charge alone as your own vanguard. Never doubt yourself or your cause. All there can ever be is the attack.

"Contemplation of God in woman is the most complete and perfect, because in this way he contemplates God in both the active and receptive modes, whereas by contemplating God only in himself, he beholds him particularly in a receptive mode. Because of this the Prophet ﷺ loved women, because of the perfection of his witness of God in them" - "Fusus al-hikam" (2 vols. ed. Abu ‘Ala ‘l-‘Affin. Beirut: Dar al-kitab al-‘arabi. 1:217), Ibn Arabi Art: Delphin Enjolras (1857-1945), French

"Accustom yourself to be master of the following: first of all, of your stomach, of sleep, of lust, and of anger." - Golden Verses of Pythagoras, 9-11 "There are three gates leading to this hell - lust, anger, and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul. The man who has escaped these three gates of hell, O son of Kunti, performs acts conducive to self-realization and thus gradually attains the supreme destination." - Bhagavad Gita, 16.21-22 "There is no possibility of one's becoming a yogi, O Arjuna, if one eats too much, or eats too little, sleeps too much or does not sleep enough. He who is temperate in his habits of eating, sleeping, working and recreation can mitigate all material pains by practicing the yoga system." - Bhagavad Gita, 6.16-17

He that overtalks himself on the topics of the "Dionysian" and the "Apollonian", he has evidently never shown up well and fully inebriated to his choir practice. If, on the other hand, anyone wants to witness the union of the two, such a one ought to take a stroll in the streets of a university town, late on a Saturday night in May.

"To any vision must be brought an eye adapted to what is to be seen, and having some likeness to it. Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sunlike, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful. Therefore, first let each become godlike and each beautiful who cares to see God and Beauty." Plotinus

Once in early spring the Přemyslid knight Oldřich of Bohemia went hunting into the deep forests of Postoloprty. Suddenly he saw the huge buck; he was following it through bushes and got lost somewhere close to Peruc. After a moment he met a beautiful peasant girl Božena washing cloth by the well. He fell in love immediately and asked her to marry him and share the ruling duties. Božena agreed and went with him to Prague, where their son Bretisav was born. To keep their place of love visible they planted the oak and established the village “Peruc” (washing). Still today we can admire the huge oak and Božena's well there. Božena was indeed the savior of the Czech House of Přemysl. Oldřich had two brothers, but one of them, Jaromír, had been castrated by the eldest sibling, Boleslaus III. Boleslaus III himself was imprisoned in Poland, possibly having only a daughter. Thus Oldřich was the one Přemyslid able to have a son and heir. His first wife is thought to have borne no children.

"Oldřich and Božena", František Ženíšek (25 May 1849 – 15 November 1916), Czech

"A Catholicism that is raised up to the level of a truly universal, unanimous, and perennial tradition where faith can be integrated into a metaphysical realization, the symbol integrated into the path to awakening, the rites and sacraments into acts of power, dogmas into expressions of an absolute and infallible consciousness because it is beyond human and, as such, alive in beings unbound from terrestrial chains through an ascesis, and where the pontificate recovers its primal mediating function — such a Catholicism could supplant every “spiritualism”, both present and future." - Julius Evola, "Mask and Face of Contemporary Spirituality"

"Man, more than wanting to be understood, wants what is incomprehensible in him to be respected." ~ Ernst Jünger

"There are two ways to meet a glorious death, and both are very rare. One is to die after performing mystic yoga, especially bhakti-yoga, by which one can control the mind and living force and die absorbed in thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The second is to die on the battlefield, leading the army and never showing one’s back. These two kinds of death are recommended in the śāstra as glorious." - Srimad Bhagavatam, 6.10.33

The devastation we are confronted with in tragedy is that the whole of law, the utmost violence, is left to one figure. The world of mortal pain set upon the earth itself. A figure abandoned to the world; not even a titan can overstretch the chasm. It is the continuation of the titanic battle after the fall and eternal judgement of the titans. One man is left to drag the world behind him, all the rest – beholden.