Aristocrats of the Soul
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Hygge is a Danish word for finding happiness in the little things in life. More specifically, it’s a way of taking ordinary events and making them cozy and comfy. It encompasses everything from comfort food to inviting interior design to close friendships.…
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The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq: Book Review
I had high expectations for The Possibility of an Island, having just finished Whatever and thinking I’d found a kindred spirit in Michel Houellebecq. The novel is loosely based on the Raëlian movement, the UFO religion that says humans were created by extraterrestrials…
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Frith: The Norse Art of Peaceful Families and Communities
Frith is a northern European concept that’s almost exclusively discussed in the realm of Asatru. It’s such an important value that it’s time to bring it out of the pagan fringe and back into mainstream European culture. In Old Norse,…
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Julius Evola Books: A Guide to Radical Traditionalism
Julius Evola was an Italian esotericist and philosopher who was one of the primary proponents of René Guénon’s Traditionalist School of thought, and his philosophy has become one of the biggest influences on the modern New Right, radical traditionalist, and neo-reactionary movements.…
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Faith in God: How To Get It When It Doesn’t Come Naturally
The problem of faith in God is largely a modern one. In almost every society in the past people had a religion by default. And though it may seem constricting to our modern sensibilities, there’s great freedom in not having…
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Nicholas Roerich and the Search for Shambhala
We are currently living in the Kali Yuga and a new Golden Age won’t begin for about 427,000 years. However, mini-Golden Ages will occur within the current Dark Age. Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya (Sri Acharyaji) said that a mini-Golden Age would begin…
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Aleister Crowley on the Aeon of the Horus as the Era of Childishness
Aleister Crowley taught that in 1904 the world entered the Aeon of Horus, also called the Aeon of the Child or the New Aeon. Most Thelemites, and even Crowley himself at times, view the current two-thousand year period as a…
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Secular Buddhism vs. Traditional Buddhism: 6 Key Differences
Buddhist beliefs can’t be lumped into one single category or belief system. Though they share a common source, different Buddhist sects such as Tibetan Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism have many dissimilarities as well. The starkest…
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What Is True Will in Aleister Crowley’s Thelema?
“Do what thou wilt” is Aleister Crowley’s most famous phrase, but also his most misunderstood. I meet people in the occult community all the time who think it means “do whatever you want” and envision Crowley’s philosophy as one of self-indulgence. Nothing…
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Minimalism: A Traditionalist Aesthetic
“Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”William Morris When people think of a design style of Traditionalism or the New Right, what’s likely conjured up in the mind is antiques,…
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