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A chapter from the “Invisible Story” of Béla Hamvas

2. We live in times – as Le Bon wrote fifty years ago – when the unconscious activity of the mass replaces the conscious activity of the individual. The change back then not only seemed harmless, but also specifically desirable. Some agitated the masses to rise up. Marx and the apostles of Socialism, without being […]

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Ereignis and Power

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 […]

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Tradition and Politics

  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 […]

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Csontvary’s Lonely Cedar

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. […]

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The Seven Initiations

Friends, I would like to turn your attention to a remarkable book on Yoga, recently published by Kvintesszencia Publishing. The volume contains three works: The Seven Initiations, “F” Diary and Yoga Aphorisms from a significant yet virtually unknown Hungarian thinker: József Kaczvinszky (1904-1963). Yoga literature is broad, with Amazon listing over 50,000 books on this […]