From our archives:
People who see ghosts and go on being rationalist/materialists do so because their social conditioning is stronger than the evidence of their senses.
Whenever there is a rupture between the two it is uncomfortable, but if we decide to go with the social side it isn’t very uncomfortable because we just ignore any evidence and talk with our fellow-believers (which is why seeing ghosts makes so little difference to the scientism faithful).
As for ghosts – well I don’t find ghosts very interesting in themselves, and I don’t pretend to know what they are (I don’t believe that the ”soul” is still present in a ghost – I think it is some kind of ”outer psychic shell” that the soul has shed but that still has a kind of emotion).
But what is really fascinating is the way the dogma of materialism has reduced the state of information about ghosts to a pre-mass-communication level.
Ghosts do exist. Lots of people experience them daily (many hauntings are just a part of the life of a particular building) or sometimes yearly (there are such things as annual hauntings on the anniversary of some particular event). They follow laws that have been verified over numerous cases and can accurately predict some of the phenomena that will be present in new cases. There are organizations that have carefully-kept records dating back to the latter part of the century before last.
But because of the mythos or ideology of Western Telluria, all this knowledge is reduced to the anecdotal level – the state of knowledge that might be found in a remote village before the advent of the printing press.
It is as if while one set of people possess a detailed collection of notebooks on the habits and biology of otters, everyone else is still arguing about whether otters actually exist, and the people who actually know all about otters aren’t listened to (and rarely even admitted to exist themselves) because – well otters aren’t a respectable subject.
All very odd.
An enquirer writes:
I have an inquiry on the meaning of Traditional society. What do you mean by Traditional society? Because when I hear the word Tradition, it is rooted to me in Patriarchal Tradition. When I hear the word Tradition. I see a Traditional Family: Father, Mother, and Child (or Children), and the father is the breadwinner, Mother is the Homemaker, and child learns from the Mother, but the father is still supreme. I do not think a faith that believes in the Feminine universe, a primordial feminine being means this when they talk about the word Tradition. So what is Tradition?
This is an interesting question and in a general sense is probably best answered by this quotation from The Feminine Universe.
We may readily see that the Traditional mode of society is oriented to states above the human and earthly. Every aspect of the life of a Traditional Society is lived in the light of Heaven. Its art, as we have seen, strives to depict not the earthly shadows of things, but the celestial Archetypes that lie behind them. Its crafts are not mere means to the manufacture of physical commodities, but each craft is a spiritual path, each operation performed in accordance with a sacred symbolism. This is why the factory system and the ‘industrial revolution’ could not happen until the traditional form of society had disintegrated..."
We would add that we hold no brief for patriarchal traditional societies. Really the point of the term "traditional" as it is used on this site is to refer to the way of thinking that is universal to humanity before the advent of the so-called "Enlightenment" with its materialist doctrines that govern modern thinking.
An enquirer writes:
I have an inquiry on the meaning of Traditional society. What do you mean by Traditional society? Because when I hear the word Tradition, it is rooted to me in Patriarchal Tradition. When I hear the word Tradition. I see a Traditional Family: Father, Mother, and Child (or Children), and the father is the breadwinner, Mother is the Homemaker, and child learns from the Mother, but the father is still supreme. I do not think a faith that believes in the Feminine universe, a primordial feminine being means this when they talk about the word Tradition. So what is Tradition?
This is an interesting question and in a general sense is probably best answered by this quotation from The Feminine Universe.
We may readily see that the Traditional mode of society is oriented to states above the human and earthly. Every aspect of the life of a Traditional Society is lived in the light of Heaven. Its art, as we have seen, strives to depict not the earthly shadows of things, but the celestial Archetypes that lie behind them. Its crafts are not mere means to the manufacture of physical commodities, but each craft is a spiritual path, each operation performed in accordance with a sacred symbolism. This is why the factory system and the ‘industrial revolution’ could not happen until the traditional form of society had disintegrated..."
We would add that we hold no brief for patriarchal traditional societies. Really the point of the term "traditional" as it is used on this site is to refer to the way of thinking that is universal to humanity before the advent of the so-called "Enlightenment" with its materialist doctrines that govern modern thinking.
An enquirer writes:
I have an inquiry on the meaning of Traditional society. What do you mean by Traditional society? Because when I hear the word Tradition, it is rooted to me in Patriarchal Tradition. When I hear the word Tradition. I see a Traditional Family: Father, Mother, and Child (or Children), and the father is the breadwinner, Mother is the Homemaker, and child learns from the Mother, but the father is still supreme. I do not think a faith that believes in the Feminine universe, a primordial feminine being means this when they talk about the word Tradition. So what is Tradition?
This is an interesting question and in a general sense is probably best answered by this quotation from The Feminine Universe.
We may readily see that the Traditional mode of society is oriented to states above the human and earthly. Every aspect of the life of a Traditional Society is lived in the light of Heaven. Its art, as we have seen, strives to depict not the earthly shadows of things, but the celestial Archetypes that lie behind them. Its crafts are not mere means to the manufacture of physical commodities, but each craft is a spiritual path, each operation performed in accordance with a sacred symbolism. This is why the factory system and the ‘industrial revolution’ could not happen until the traditional form of society had disintegrated..."
We would add that we hold no brief for patriarchal traditional societies. Really the point of the term "traditional" as it is used on this site is to refer to the way of thinking that is universal to humanity before the advent of the so-called "Enlightenment" with its materialist doctrines that govern modern thinking.
Advent is upon us and we are decorating our homes in preparation for the coming of God the Daughter. 10th Astraea (8th December) is the Feast of the Conception of God the Daughter. Please read more about this joyous festival which is often considered to be the beginning of the true Advent period.
Advent is upon us and we are decorating our homes in preparation for the coming of God the Daughter. 10th Astraea (8th December) is the Feast of the Conception of God the Daughter. Please read more about this joyous festival which is often considered to be the beginning of the true Advent period.
A fascinating article on the metaphysical meaning of Japanese Characters by Goldenhead author Annalinde Matichei.
Anyone interested in how our spiritual traditions are embedded in the fundamental structure of language, both East and West should read this essay.
A fascinating article on the metaphysical meaning of Japanese Characters by Goldenhead author Annalinde Matichei.
Anyone interested in how our spiritual traditions are embedded in the fundamental structure of language, both East and West should read this essay.
A fascinating article on the metaphysical meaning of Japanese Characters by Goldenhead author Annalinde Matichei.
Anyone interested in how our spiritual traditions are embedded in the fundamental structure of language, both East and West should read this essay.
An Easter Hymn for Passiontide, expressing the wasteland quality of the time between the Daughter's death and the New Year with a discussion of the nature of our feminine Easter.
An Easter Hymn for Passiontide, expressing the wasteland quality of the time between the Daughter's death and the New Year with a discussion of the nature of our feminine Easter.
Rayadi Moura 28th (Sunday March 18th) is the last day of the year in the Filianic calendar. It is the day that the Daughter goes down into death and the world above becomes a wasteland.
This year there is a two-day hiatus, so the following two days have no date in the Filianic calendar. They are days-out-of-time, non-days in which the Sustainer of the Universe lies dead. During these days we try to avoid (as far as possible) even the acknowledgement that there may be a future, for the world has ended.
There is a special chant used during these two days which you will find here.
The New Year begins with the Resurrection of the Daughter on Matidi 1st Culverine (Wednesday 21st March), and will be the Year of Sai Mati.
Learn more about the Filianic Eastre festival which begins and ends the year.
Rayadi Moura 28th (Sunday March 18th) is the last day of the year in the Filianic calendar. It is the day that the Daughter goes down into death and the world above becomes a wasteland.
This year there is a two-day hiatus, so the following two days have no date in the Filianic calendar. They are days-out-of-time, non-days in which the Sustainer of the Universe lies dead. During these days we try to avoid (as far as possible) even the acknowledgement that there may be a future, for the world has ended.
There is a special chant used during these two days which you will find here.
The New Year begins with the Resurrection of the Daughter on Matidi 1st Culverine (Wednesday 21st March), and will be the Year of Sai Mati.
Learn more about the Filianic Eastre festival which begins and ends the year.
