At death, the finer elements (mind, intelligence, and ego), which, combined, are called consciousness, carry the small particle of spirit soul to another body to suffer or enjoy, according to one's work. Our consciousness is molded by our work... Therefore, our present duty is to cultivate divine consciousness.

This can easily be done through association (sangat sanjayate kamah). Through divine association, our consciousness is made divine, and through demoniac association, our consciousness is made demoniac... That is the duty of one in this human form, a form that gives us a chance to make our next life completely divine.

Swami Prabhupada

Golden Verses of Pythagoras with Commentary

Thanks to https://t.iss.one/GreekLeague and https://t.iss.one/wisdomofthegods for their efforts.

https://telegra.ph/The-Golden-Verses-of-Pythagoras-with-Commentary-04-09

Friends, Titans, Countrymen,
lend me thine ears;
I have come to bury Columbia, not to praise her.
The evil that Gods do live long after them;
the good is often buried with them; and let it be so with Columbia.
The noble elders have told you that she was evil, if it was so, it was a grievous quality;
and grievously she has answered for it.
Here do I make my exaltation, under the dominion of the elders and their followers-
For the elders are honorable men-
so are they all honorable men-
in honoring the soul of the Titan of the West.
She was my mother, nurturing and just to me:
But the elders said she was evil;
and the elders are honorable men.
She gave us nurishment, riches, and endless territory for us to denude and make our own;
by which we enriched ourselves, grown strong, and were given reign of our own lives.
Did this in Columbia seem evil?
When the small souled Tyrants of false Gods and shallow hearts dominated you,
Columbia answered your cries, and taking up the sword, she freed you.
Evil should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet the elders said she was evil:
and the elders are honorable men.
Through her, Columbia gave solace and power to the three great peoples of Europe,
Latins, Germanics, and Slavs, each given power to make of their lives what their souls could muster.
Was this evil?
Yet the elders say she was evil; and the elders are honorable men.
I speak now to not disprove what the elders have spoken, but here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love her once, and not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to honor her again?
Are we to call ourselves men when it is by our shortcomings, and those of our blood, that Columbia be ravished by a Punic tyranny?
Of what quantity can we call ourselves lovers, when it is our hearts we have sold for a thirty-pieced silver?
Bear with me, my heart lies there with Columbia's ravishment, and I feel only shame that I had once abandoned her when she had never once failed me.

-Ronin

The first initiative of a man seeking the Way must be to reject the habitual image that he has of himself. He will be able to begin to say "I" only when the magical word corresponds to the inner imagination of self-awareness unconstrained by limitations of space, time, or power.

Human beings must retrieve the sense of the reality of themselves. At present, they only limit and diminish themselves, feeling different and smaller than they really are; every thought they conceive and every deed they perform adds one more bar to their prison cell, one more veil to their vision, one more denial of their power. They lock themselves inside the limits of their bodies and attach themselves to the earth that carries them: it is as if an eagle fancied to be a snake and crawled on the ground, ignoring its wings.

It is not only that man ignores, deforms, and denies himself, but that he also reenacts the myth of Medusa, turning everything around him into stone. He observes and sizes nature with weights and measures. He limits the life surrounding him to petty laws, and overcomes the mysteries with petty hypotheses. He freezes the universe into a static unity, and puts himself at the periphery of the world, shyly, humbly, as if he were an accidental secretion, without power or hope.

Man is the center of the universe. All of the cold or incandescent material masses of the myriad worlds out there do not weigh on the scale of values as much as the simplest change in his consciousness. The limits of his body are just an illusion; man does not merely rest on the earth, but he continues through the earth and into cosmic space. Whether he moves his thought or his arms, an entire world moves with him; thousands of mysterious forces hasten toward him in a creative gesture, and all of his daily actions are just the caricature of what really flows divinely toward him.

Thus he should look around himself and free everything that surrounds him from its petrification. Before knowing it, he must imagine that there are conscious energies in the earth, in the waters, in the air, and in fire, and that the so-called natural forces are just modalities of our own substance projected outward. It is not the earth that makes the plant live, but the forces in the plant that draw from the earth the elements necessary for its own life. Something else needs to be grafted onto the sense of the beauty of things, namely the sense of the mystery of things as an obscure and yet intuited reality. Not only must what we can see and know act in us, but the unknown must also be bravely affirmed and felt in all its power.

We must emphasize the need for a special attitude to this point of view, as to any other esoteric one. What matters is to inaugurate something that will often help along the way of spiritual development, namely a way of possessing a concept that amounts to more than merely understanding or remembering it. It is necessary to establish a rhythm: in other words, to present a concept periodically and rhythmically1 to one's consciousness, which then grasps it willingly, and not only as a thought but also as a feeling. The contemplation of one's being and of the world in the manner that I have described generates a sense of greatness and power. We must retain this sense within us, in order to be intensely penetrated by it.

In this way we will be able to establish a relationship of realization with this new vision, which at first will flow into the subconscious, then after some time will be incorporated increasingly into the feeling, in the manner I have described. A new condition will then arise: what was first a mere concept will eventually become the presence of a force, and a state of liberation will be reached, on which the new life may be built.

All the exercises of inner development will be paralyzed unless one breaks the shell of limitation that daily life forms around one, and that still remains in the human subconscious even after a change of perspectives.

- Julius Evola, Introduction to Magic

https://odysee.com/@ashalogos:92/obstacles-along-the-way:e?r=7GMWxWe1ScWv4XQqzrNsN8vHVFAPv6YS

An update from the front: Punished Asha Logos responds to recent attempts to stop his work. He re-asserts the gravity of our situation and the reality that we are truly already at war (whether you like to think of it that way or not), but also reminds us of the power of maintaining a hopeful and positive outlook in the face of such adversity. Consider this an urgent reminder to watch or re-watch Asha Logos' videos. He may very well be the greatest content creator we have, and his ability to continue his great work is in jeopardy. He's doing a lot more than making videos too; behind the scenes he is responsible for bringing people together with the goal of building new institutions. With the utmost sincerity he may be our best warrior actively fighting in this war where so few others are. If you are fortunate enough to be generous you could not find a better fighter to support.

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men" - Seneca

"The territory of right is in general the spiritual, and its more definite place and origin is the will, which is free. Thus freedom constitutes the substance and essential character of the will, and the system of right is the kingdom of actualised freedom. It is the world of spirit, which is produced out of itself, and is a second nature."

Hegel

Hegel has an aristocratic conception of Freedom. In order to be free you have to be autonomous, and because Freedom is inseparable from law, this means imposing an absolute law upon yourself in order to express and realize your Freedom. The family is one such structure, and this logic is brought to its finale in the conception of the state.

"The distinction between Nature and Mind is not improperly conceived, when the former is traced back to reality, and the latter so fixed and complete as to subsist even without Mind: in Mind it first, as it were, attains its goal and its truth. And similarly, Mind on its part is not merely a world beyond Nature and nothing more: it is really, and with full proof, seen to be mind, only when it involves Nature as absorbed in itself. Apropos of this, we should note the double meaning of the German word aufheben (to put by or set aside). We mean by it (1) to clear away, or annul: thus, we say, a law or regulation is set aside; (2) to keep, or preserve: in which sense we use it when we say: something is well put by. This double usage of language, which gives to the same word a positive and negative meaning, is not an accident, and gives no ground for reproaching language as a cause of confusion. We should rather recognise in it the speculative spirit of our language rising above the mere ‘either-or’ of understanding."

Hegel

"The Apparent or Phenomenal exists in such a way that its subsistence is ipso facto thrown into abeyance or suspended and is only one stage in the form itself. The form embraces in it the matter or subsistence as one of its characteristics. In this way the phenomenal has its ground in this (form) as its essence, its reflection-into-self in contrast with its immediacy, but, in so doing, has it only in another aspect of the form. This ground of its is no less phenomenal than itself, and the phenomenon accordingly goes on to an endless mediation of subsistence by means of form, and thus equally by non-subsistence. This endless intermediation is at the same time a unity of self-relation; and existence is developed into a totality, into a world of phenomena — of reflected finitude."

Hegel

"Hegel stated in his lectures more than once that the term "speculative" meant the same thing as "mystical"."

- 𝑯𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏

BEHOLD!

📚 New book-review!

The Serpent Symbol in Tradition by Dr. Charles William Dailey

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• René Guénon and Mircea Eliade
• Metaphysics and the Neoplatonic One
• The Serpent Guardian of Enlightenment
• The Caduceus
• Aryan Patriarchy and the Earth Mother
• Thunderweapons and the Axis Mundi
• Chinese Dragon-Emperor and the Axis Mundi
• Ouroboros – Anima Mundi – The Soul of the World
• Sacred Mountains
• Epic Quotes
• Quetzalcóatl
• Conclusion

Only the most Cultured of Thugs will enjoy this.

https://thegoldenone.se/2022/04/10/the-serpent-symbol-in-tradition-by-dr-charles-william-dailey/

"Ancient and traditional science, to which initiatic knowledge is related, has followed an essentially different path, namely the path of knowledge of the effects in their real causes, of the "facts" in the powers of which they are the manifestations, which is the equivalent of the identijication with the causes in the terms of a "magical" state. Only such a state can lead to the absolute rationale of a phenomenon; only this state can "explain" it in an eminent sense, because in it that phenomenon is grasped, or even seen, in its real genesis. The important consequence of this is that on the initiatic path the acquisition of knowledge parallels the acquisition of power, since the active dentification with a cause virtually confers a power over that same cause."

"Modern men believe that this is the same in the case of their science, since through various techniques science brings about well-known material realizations; and yet they are grossly mistaken, since the power afforded by technology is no more a true power than the explanations of profane sciences are true explanations. The cause, in both cases, is the same; it is the fact of a man who remains a man, and who does not change his nature to any significant degree. This is why the possibilities afforded by technology have a "democratic" and even immoral character, like its corresponding knowledge: differences between individuals mean nothing to them. It is a power consisting of automatism, which belongs to everyone and to no one; a power that is not value, nor justice, which can make a person powerful without making him superior at the same time." - Ea, Introduction to Magic I

Every day I am more convinced that Life is magic and that art is its sole expression. You who seek out magical things—are you blind to the enchanted rituals constantly performed? You who struggle to be artistic—are you deaf to the eternal symphonies? You have always possessed Life, the most magical and artistic of things! To even question the meaning of life is preposterous. How dare you look this gift horse in the mouth, this greatest of gifts from God Himself? Live!

Pranayama : Getting Started

This is a completely practical guide for beginning pranayama. There is very little theory provided.

Yogic Breathing (abdominal breathing)
Stage 1: https://t.iss.one/PerenNat/604
Stage 2: https://t.iss.one/PerenNat/768

This can be done in either Shavasana or, later, a sitting position, such as Swastikasana or any of the sitting positions here: https://t.iss.one/PerenNat/888

Nadi Shodhana
Stage 1: https://t.iss.one/PerenNat/831
Stage 2: https://t.iss.one/PerenNat/836
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iDQtqBJqrw&t=565s

Bhastrika
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z954F3JR4NI

Kapalbhati (Shining Skull)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UURgA8Rf7E&t=11s

Abdominal breathing, Bhastrika, and Kapalbhati will increase body temperature, so do not be alarmed if you begin to sweat. In fact, when performed properly, you should notice an increase in body temperature.

"Nirvana, according to Zen, is a state of inner freedom; a state which is free of the Ego's passions, anxieties and bonds. This state can be preserved in any kind of activity and in any aspect of everyday life. The state of Zen is a different dimension and encompasses life as a whole; it consists of a different way of going through and experiencing life. The "absence of the ego," promoted by Zen, is not the equivalent of apathy or atony; but rather induces a higher form of spontaneity, self-assurance, freedom and calmness during action. It is like one who, after spasmodically grabbing onto something, eventually lets go and in doing so acquires an even higher sense of tranquillity, a higher form of freedom and of security." - Julius C. Evola, The Religion of the Samurai