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The advancement of a technical civilisation does not measure superiority.
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If the first and ultimate centre were not always present, it would never be possible to reach it.
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If God were outside me then God would be not God but one of the things that exist. To suppose an objective God is strictly speaking an indirect negation of God.
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Superior things never originate from the inferior. Everything that came into existence is manifested by the descent of the Superior.
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The advancement of a technical civilisation does not measure superiority. Superiority can only be measured by the relation to the origin, beyond the origin to the beginning, and beyond this to the Unbegun.
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Tradition is the atemporal thrown into temporality.
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Tradition is nothing other than »remembrance«, and the bearing of the connection with the origin. Modernity is the denial of this »remembrance« and aims at the destruction of every kind of representation of remembrance.
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There is only one primordial tradition for there is only one metaphysics, and there is only one metaphysics for there is only one Being.
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The aim of man’s activity in life can be the Absolutum or nothingness.
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Knowledge of the origin, knowledge of the path, knowledge of the all-transcending, ultimate goal: this is metaphysical tradition.
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The »ideal« of dark tendencies is the person without world-views.
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Tradition springs forth from the eternal, points at the eternal, and in the human modality of being represents the aspiration towards the eternal.
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Today’s man has gradually built a denatured world for himself: he has already been cut off from the supernatural, and now he is about to take leave of the natural.
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Each world that has lost its origin-awareness is characterized by annihilation.
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Despite all its losing track, deterioration and dissipation, today’s world and the tendencies operating in it show one direction: the direction of nothingness.
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Every true ascent from below is an ascent controlled from above. I want to get higher for what is higher in me »calles for« what is lower in me
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When I reconstruct myself, I reconstruct the world.
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Despite all its losing track, deterioration and dissipation, today’s world and the tendencies operating in it show one direction: the direction of nothingness.
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There is but one true normality: the normality of the centre.
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The only manifested thing is the Non-manifested - though it is manifested, yet at the same time it remains non-manifested.
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The existence of a Weltanschauung guarantees the presence of principles; the existence of contemplation corrects the Weltanschauung.
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The resurrection of body is but the re-placement of the body onto a grade in the hierarchy, which is appropriate to its original rank.
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Body in its deepest sense is not a figural reality, but a state of mind, viz. such a state of mind that limits and exterminates all the other states of mind. Body is an internal wall.
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Every true ascent from below is an ascent controlled from above. I want to get higher for what is higher in me »calles for« what is lower in me.
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The fight against darkness manifesting in the world is essential. But my foremost duty is the battle against the darkness in my very own soul.
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Man should not ensure reservations of darkness in his life.
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In the cosmos - right because it is cosmos - quantity cannot gain full control.
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Quantitative aspects have no value at all, because value is, essentially, attached to quality.
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The other-world is not latent, but potential, it becomes through my realisation. Not to say, that the everyday world also exists in the same way…
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Spiritus est regulator. Anima est mediatrix regulationis. Corpus est regulatum.
