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- October 23rd, 2011
The following titles added to Virtual Library: By Julius Evola 'The Yoga of Power', 'Introduction to Magic' (with the UR Group), 'The Hermetic Tradition', 'Ride the Tiger', 'Meditation on the Peaks'; by Martin Lings Collected Poems, 'What Is Sufism?' - October 23rd, 2011
'The Yoga of Power' by Julius Evola and 'Shakespeare in the Light of Sacred Art' by Martin Lings added to Virtual Library - July 22nd, 2011
'Revolt Against the Modern World' and 'The Mystery of the Grail' by Julius Evola added to Virtual Library - May 12th, 2011
'The Fundamental Principles of the Universe and the Origin of Physical Laws' by Attila Grandpierre added
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Recent articles
- The Fundamental Principles of the Universe and the Origin of Physical Laws by Attila Grandpierre
- Knowledge of the Symbol by Pietro Negri
- Aristocracy And The Meaning Of Class Rule
- Sherds of Physis Shattered by Dr. Andreas Wolfsson
- Symbols And The Interpretation of Symbols: Two articles by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
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Modesty, Intimacy and Routine
This article is entirely written by Karlo Z. Valois and is used by kind permission.
People today live in a world that lacks any trace of modesty, intimacy and is build mostly on routine. Routine is the visible cause of the other two factors. If we don’t look at the situation linearly, but from a point of view that precedes all three elements, it is rationalism and a material weltanschauung that stems from the general tendency of involution, that could be identified as the main cause, but we spoke about this elsewhere.
Routine is the opposite of ritual. It is important to start with this, because when looked at it from „below”, the two looks the same. In reality however the two represent two different forms. The content of a ritual is a symbol, the content of routine is an object or a practical act (performance). The difference between an object and a symbol is the observer. Only a superior observer sees symbol in an object or an act: a symbol is always the precipitation of something higher, the representation of the superior on an lower plane.