It is well known among people well-read in works dealing with the principles of Traditionalism that those who aspire to follow a spiritual path face serious challenges today: religious institutions…| PRAGUE CONSERVATIVE CIRCLE
Image: Duccio di Buoninsegna – The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain Thomas Aquinas says: “It is said of God that He is life itself, and not only that he is a living thing. ‘I am the way, the truth and the life’ (John 14:6). Now the relation between Godhead and God is the same […]| PRAGUE CONSERVATIVE CIRCLE
(Personal notes inspired by our discussion on November 13, 2022) In our last meeting, we discussed the topic of adaptation to the modern world from a practical perspective. This is a question everyone who embarks on a spiritual journey must eventually face. To approach the matter at hand, we outlined three possible angles: knowledge, action […]| PRAGUE CONSERVATIVE CIRCLE
Author: Ferenc Buji “No one has ever seen God. If I see him with my own eyes, I’ll believe he exists”. This counterargument to the existence of God has been fairly common in atheist circles. Now let’s take this hypothetical proving method seriously, and let’s run a thought experiment to disprove it. What if we […]| PRAGUE CONSERVATIVE CIRCLE
“You never know, who may be concealed under the appearance of a poor man”– said once a Muslim to his friend, who questioned why he gave a coin to a beggar. Stories of the wanderer, the disguised divinity walking among us mortals abound not only in Islam, but also in every major tradition. In the […]| PRAGUE CONSERVATIVE CIRCLE
3. In this new situation, the rise of what used to be below is as fatal as the submersion of what used to be above. The natural place of the mass – like that of the unconscious – is below. It belongs there by fate. The ox, when it pulls the cart and ploughs, is […]| PRAGUE CONSERVATIVE CIRCLE
Le triomphe de la guillotine, 1795 – Nicolas-Antoine Taunay 2. We live in times – as Le Bon wrote fifty years ago – when the unconscious activity of the mass replaces the conscious activity o…| PRAGUE CONSERVATIVE CIRCLE
The coronavirus has occasioned many interpretations across the broadest range of contexts. These include biological and economical, political and geopolitical, societal, historical, philosophical and, occasionally, metaphysical ones. Such reflections inevitably lead to a reassessment of the fundamental elements of what is most often referred to as our current reality. Naturally, the higher the context for […]| PRAGUE CONSERVATIVE CIRCLE
The need for the Truth tends to become acute in extreme situations. For example, when things are getting out of control. To regain control we need to introduce change in our course of action. To determine what the appropriate change is, we need to reflect: perhaps we’ve been acting on false assumptions; perhaps our […]| PRAGUE CONSERVATIVE CIRCLE
Author: Bela Hamvas – excerpt from Patmos I There’s a tree of many one says Wordsworth. It’s a tree like any other, yet it’s incomparable to any other tree, glorious in its singularity. What the ancients considered to be most essential was the absolute spirit, which has always been and always will be, never changing. […]| PRAGUE CONSERVATIVE CIRCLE
