Author: leyoucis

Mathematics – structural reasoning coming from before experience

Philosophy – conceptual reasoning coming from before experience

Metaphysics – a claim about the fundamental nature of reality that transcends the physical.

Transcendent – something that transcends rationality.

Transcendental – something that remains within the bounds of rationality

Empirical – something pertaining to the senses or scientific experiment

Physical – pertaining to natural law or the empirical

Idealism- Synonymous with immaterialism. belief that all is mind or that the world is contained within the mind, or that matter does not exist.

Subjective idealism- belief that the world is contained within the individuals mind. Found in the modern Western tradition and components in Buddhism and Hinduism.

Types of God

Objective idealism – belief that the world is contained within some Gods mind and in which there is an immanent component. Found in the Western tradition, Islam, and Hinduism.

Pantheism – a purely immanent God.

Theism – belief in a transcendent God that interferes with the world from time to time. Found in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

Deism – belief in a purely rational God that does not interfere with the world.

Types of metaphysics

Esotericism – the root word of esotericism means hidden and only accessible to a small group of people. I take it to mean a metaphysical claim that transcends reason, perhaps having been handed down from an ancient prehistory. The big three are magic, astrology, and alchemy.

Mysticism- A metaphysical claim that usually is reduced to state of mind such as a feeling of merging with god. Can also depict a line of reasoning that transcends rationality. Can be used synonymously with esotericism.

Religion – A system of critical mysticism that is organized, in which there is a transcendent component and a critical or philosophical component.

Occultism – A metaphysical claim that lays over and on top of a physical claim. For example, in the 1800s magnetism and gravity were considered occult. Can also mean the new type of esotericism that emerged in the late 1800s in which less of an emphasis is placed on tradition.

Paranormal – includes phenomenon such as the psychic, ghosts, and telepathy. A mix of the esoteric and the occult.

Supernatural – a first order interaction between the physical and the metaphysical. There have been few cases throughout history other than superpowers, and examples from the Christian and Buddhist tradition.

Mircea Eliade: The Religion of the Israelites

1. HRIV1: The First Two Chapters of Genesis 162-165
2. HRIV1: Paradise Lost. Cain and Abel 165-168
3. HRIV1: Before and After the Flood 168-171
4. HRIV1: The Religion of the Patriarchs 171-174
5. HRIV1: Abraham, “Father of Faith” 174-176
6. HRIV1: Moses and the Departure from Egypt 176-179
7. HRIV1: “I am who I am” 179-183
8. HRIV1: Religion under the Judges: the First Phase of Syncretism 183-186

Evola on the Fall of Rome

1. RMW: 27

Anthroposophy on Martinism

1. CTLVT: 33, 35, 3-5, 105-106
2. CTLVT: 145
3. CTLVT: 4
4. CTLVT: 135
5. CTLVT: Christ and Sophia: 147
6. CTLVT: 75, 76, 158, The Second coming and the Incarnation of Ahriman: 117-124
7. CTLVT: The School of the Archangel Jesus: 298

Mircea Eliade: the Religion of the Egyptians

1. HRIV1: The Unforgettable Miracle: The “First Time” 85-87
2. HRIV1: Theogonies and Cosmogonies 87-90
3. HRIV1: The Responsibilities of an Incarnate God 91-94
4. HRIV1: The Pharaoh’s Ascent into Heaven 94- 97
5. HRIV1: Osiris, the Murdered God 97-100
6. HRIV1: Syncope: Anarchy, Despair, and “Democratization” of the Afterlife 100-103
7. HRIV1: Theology and Politics of “Solarization” 103-106
8. HRIV1: Akh-en-Aton, or the Unsuccessful Reform 106-109
9. HRIV1: Final Synthesis: the Association of Re-Osiris 109-113

Evola on Vodou

1. IMVII: The Magic of Effigies 229-237
2. IMVII: The Magic of Creation 290-297
3. IMVII: The Magic of Effigies 233, 234

Evola’s anti-perennialsim

1. RMW: The World of Tradition 7, 8, 12, 21, 22, 29, 30, 60, 68, 69
2. RMW: The World of Tradition 4, 5, 8, 9, 26
3. RMW: Genesis and Face of the Modern World
4. RMW: Genesis and Face of the Modern World 179-182

Berkeley’s Semi-phenomenalism

1. BI: Two Interpretations 205-207
2. BI: The Denial of Blind Agency 207-216
3. BI: Unperceived Objects 216-224
4. BI: Unperceived Objects 223
5. BI: Two Objections 224-228

Biography of Rene Guenon

1. RGFW: Early Days 11-18
2. RGFW: Searching 19-27
3. RGFW: Finding 28-31
4. RGFW: Cutting the Ties 32-37
5. RGFW: Cutting the Ties 32-37, Breaking Loose 38
6. RGFW: Breaking Loose 38-42
7. RGFW: Turning to Mecca 43-47

Guenon on the Freemasons

1. SFC: Masons and carpenters 39-43
2. SFC: Gnosis and freemasonry 47-51
3. SFC: The builders of the middle ages 35-39
4. SFC: Scientific ideas and the masonic ideal 1-9
5. SFC: Lost words and substituted words 9-19

The Magico-Religious Beliefs of the Paleanthropeans

1. HRIV1: Orientatio. Tools to make Tools. The “Domestication” of Fire 3-5
2. HRV1: The “Opaqueness” of Prehistoric Documents 5- 8
3. HRIV1: Symbolic Meanings of Burials 8-13
4. HRIV1: The Controversy Concerning Deposits of Bones 13-16
5. HRIV1: Rock Paintings: Images or Symbols? 16-19
6. HRIV1: the Presence of Woman 20-22
7. HRIV1: Rights, Thought, and Imagination among Paleolithic Hunters 22- 28

Mircea Eliade: Zoroastrianism

1. HRI 301-305
2. HRI 305-307
3. HRI 308-309
4. HRI 309-312
5. HRI 312-317
6. HRI 326-328
7. HRI 328-331
8. HRI 331-333
9. HRI 317-319
10. HRI 319-321, 321-322
11. HRI 322-324, 324-326

The Hermetic Caduceus and the Mirror

1. I M: The Hermetic Caduceus and the Mirror 72-79
2. I M: Instructions on Ceremonial Magic 186-196

Defense Against Beiser’s Transcendent Interpretation of Schelling

1. GI 472
2. GI 473
3. GI 473
4. GI 473
5. GI 474
6. GI 474
7. GI 474

Mircea Eliade: The Religion of the Hittites and Canaanites

1. HRI 139-142
2. HRI 142-143
3. HRI 143-145
4. HRI 145-147
5. HRI 147-149
6. HRI 149-150
7. HRI 150-152
8. HRI 152-154
9. HRI 154-156
10. HRI 156-158
11. HRI 159
12. HRI 160-161