The Mystery-cult becomes the State-cult
"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."- Frank Herbert Egypt, Babylon, Athens, and Rome,...
Power
Towards An Aristocratic Culture
It is not necessary to live, But to carve our names beyond that point. This is necessary. - Gabriele D'Annunzio...
The Black Mirror & Technology
Brendan Heard and Iásonas Lupus "Be curious about life, and be cautious with it." - Vincent Price Since very ancient...
Death & Hades
Brendan Heard and Iásonas Lupus Death-in-concept and the constant awareness of mortality is an essential prerequisite to living fully, to...
The Loss of the Solar Physician
Brendan Heard and Iásonas Lupus “The Best Doctor is Also a Philosopher”- Galen As we see with studies on the...
The Platonic monarch
Brendan Heard and Iásonas Lupus Bruce Pennington There is a type of leadership that we might consider ideal. A type...
Pax Deorum
Brendan Heard and Iásonas Lupus “Knowledge of the gods,” says Iamblichus, “is virtue and wisdom and perfect happiness, and makes...
The Importance of the Priestly Class
Everything is overflowing with Gods.- Proclus Civilizations and human culture require curators (disciples, guardians) to keep tradition alive. Those who...
Religion & Knighthood
Religious traditions must at their core encompass the virtues of knighthood. Virtue and law rest upon a foundation of protective...
Statecraft Must Obey Divine Law
Iásonas Lupus and Brendan Heard "What, then, will be the right way to live? A man should spend his whole...