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Apr 16, 2023 9 tweets 4 min read
worth reading Evola's take because Montessori has become the dominant way of thinking about education & learning - this is in part what led to and justifies all the 'open learning', 'flipped classroom' nonsense on one side, and 'we don't need no education' on the other in the thread i mention Steiner schools, which, although nowadays falling victim to the same Montessorian way of thinking, are quite comfortable with things like rote learning, and see their role as impressing values, culture on the children, e.g.
Apr 15, 2023 12 tweets 8 min read
Evola on Education

Most people know Evola from his books, but he also wrote dozens if not hundreds of articles for a range of publications. Here he discusses Montessori education - he was actually at their conference in Fascist Italy, presided over by Mdm. Montessori herself. ImageImageImage As one of the two big 'alternative education' systems, Montessori is often lumped in with Steiner schools. But they are very different. See below on Steiner:
Oct 21, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
The Seven Towers of Satan corresponding to Ursa Major ImageImage This is from a book (Les Sept Tours du Diable) by Jean-Marc Allemand where he takes up and develops something mentioned by Guenon in his review of W. S. Seabrook's 'Adventures in Arabia' and elsewhere. ImageImage
Jun 18, 2022 20 tweets 9 min read
*** Do we live in a gynaecocracy? ***
Evola introduction to Bachofen's 'Das Mutterrecht' (1949).

Bachofen describes an opposition in the classic & ancient Mediterranean world between civilizations w/ heroic, solar, virile spirituality and cthonic, lunar, feminine spirituality. Evola describes such civilizations as 'telluric' (tellus = cthonos = earth). They consider the law of the earth the highest law; the Divine Woman embodies what is eternal and unchanging; all it produces has a birth and decline, a purely individual and fleeting life.
Apr 28, 2022 12 tweets 6 min read
*The Second Sleep*

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Should You Be Napping? Image Everyone has heard of siestas - usually thought to be taken only due to the heat of the day - and nanna-naps, which are seen as a quirk of old age. Soldiers are also famous for kipping whenever they can. These are seen as deviations -- but... Image
Apr 28, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
my copy of Disandro's "Kharis kai Kosmos" arrived today - the second of twelve poetry collections. will be translating the whole thing see one of his previously untranslated poems i did here:
Apr 14, 2022 17 tweets 9 min read
***The Dream of the Rood***

Early Anglo-Saxon poem (poss. 8th C) which tells the story of the Crucifixion from the perspective of the Cross:

"lying there long while, I, / troubled heard the Healer's tree, / until I heard its fair voice. / Then best wood spoke these words:" Image The poet relates his vision of the Cross, who recounts his life and the Passion: "It was long ago - I remember it still - that I was ripped up from my roots." ImageImage
Mar 31, 2022 13 tweets 6 min read
***Organs and Offal***

I think a lot of the promoters of eating organ meats end up making it seem strange, unusual, or extreme.

Nothing against the people, or against eating raw meat, but there are normal ways of eating organ meats which might get overlooked. If you want them to be a regular part of your and your friends' & family's diet, they should be easy to prepare and taste good. You'll also save money. At this point everyone knows the benefits. So behold some very normie ways of eating organs:
Mar 29, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
"Europe is mythic and theandric. America is utopian and Atlantean, the seat of a dark, acherontic power, reigning today through mysterious geo-historical processes..." "The Americas do not have... a hyperborean 'graft', just as the Italian south did not before Pythagoras, Xenophanes, et al..."

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Mar 20, 2022 22 tweets 11 min read
***From Old English to Standard English***

Very readable book running to ~450 pages (second edition) about the development of English. It gives a great overview of changes in English through time, illustrating and clarifying the continuity between Old and Modern English. As I lamented here, Old English is very different to Modern English; one result of this is that modern speakers are cut off from their historical texts in a way speakers of other languages are not. This book basically corrects this.
Mar 11, 2022 27 tweets 14 min read
***FASCISM VIEWED FROM THE RIGHT***
Short book running to 80 pgs. Each chapter deals with one issue – populism, race, economics, etc.

One of the only critiques of fascism *from the right*, the product is not what you might expect. ImageImage One of his reasons for writing the book was the confused state of the Right in post-war Italy - which he attributed to confusions within Fascism itself. The Right as he understands it stands above party politics. ImageImage
Mar 11, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
re translating medieval literature - always felt off to me to see the heavily Gallicized vocabulary of modern English in these texts. Of course, Anglo-Saxon/pure English is pretty much incomprehensible to modern readers... ... although it retains more of the flavour, and especially "earthiness" or soulfulness of the texts - in my opinion. Compare the translations in the linked tweet, the flatness of "people-kings" for "theodcyninga:
Mar 9, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Grim reading, sorry - short thread on pedophilia / child transitioning etc. in Australia. Sometimes people forget that all the craziness in the US is also happening here. See linked thread: Image @FAustralians @AusLibNetwork @RebelNews_AU
Mar 9, 2022 9 tweets 5 min read
@aimeeterese it's happening in Australia too you know @aimeeterese One of the people involved in setting up the "Safe Schools Program" has literally been advocating for pedophilia since the 80s.
Mar 5, 2022 24 tweets 13 min read
***The Science Delusion***
Summary of Rupert Sheldrake’s 2012 book, taking its name from Dawkins's The God Delusion. Sheldrake himself is a biochemist and plant physiologist. He says that most scientists are open-minded but fear the consequences of speaking openly. He has personal experience of this: his 2013 TED talk was banned and taken down by TED.
Jan 31, 2022 10 tweets 4 min read
Reincarnation & Palingenesis- Evola

Evola writes that the teaching of reincarnation is much misunderstood, especially in the West. To understand reincarnation, we also need to consider palingenesis.

Thread: Evola distinguishes the "survival" and "immortality" of the soul. The latter is not guaranteed: it is only for those who have achieved a certain spiritual awareness and "vertical" disposition.
Jan 25, 2022 12 tweets 4 min read
SACRED ROYALTY – from the Pharaoh to the Most Christian King

Recently finished this book by French Traditionalist Jean Hani. Short overview and some thoughts. Image The book is divided into 6 chapters, dealing first with the characteristics of sacred royalty in various traditions around the world - Chinese, Aztec, Grecoroman, Egyptian, Germanic, etc. - their similarities, characteristics, and how they relate to the philosophia perennis. Image
Jan 21, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
Quite a few people in the comments of this thread asking for book recommendations, opinions on authors, etc. I'll address that, and some criticisms and misunderstandings: I was not saying that Tolkien was a "based and redpilled Evolian" - he believed what "before the French revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal". And he was a Traditionalist Catholic and a monarchist. In any case, the art is greater than the artist...
Jan 20, 2022 16 tweets 9 min read
*** POZZED FANTASY ***
The recent hype around the LOTR and WOT amazon series has spurred me to write a thread about fantasy – the reactionary genre par excellence. Fantasy has the ability to touch something other genres do not. The success of both LOTR and GOT gives testimony to that fact. The forces of pozz have quickly realized this, and, as they cannot destroy it, they are corrupting it and turning it against itself and its audience.
Jan 8, 2022 21 tweets 10 min read
The Question of Protestantism - Schuon

Often, Protestantism is dismissed out of hand as a modern aberration, if not the cause of the Crisis of the Modern World. Schuon gives it serious consideration and compares it to other trends and elements in other traditions.

***THREAD*** Schuon writes that Christianity has three great denominations: Catholicism, Orthodoxy - including the Eastern Churches, and Protestantism, specifically Lutheranism. He writes that it manifests a Christianity which, albeit limited and excessive, is not inherently illegitimate.
Jan 3, 2022 8 tweets 4 min read
If you're not aware, there is a very cosy and Christmassy book of Tolkien's letters from Father Christmas to his children: Image He wrote his four children elaborate Christmas letters over the course of twenty years. ImageImageImageImage