James Royce
Josiah Royce and the Destiny of the Individual
The question of immortality cannot be answered until we know what an individual truly is. Before we ask whether the self survives, we must ask what sort of being the self is.
Brian C. Harris
Brian used to work as a high school History teacher. He began his Master of Divinity degree in 2023 at the Sheptytsky Institute at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto.
Thomas Troward and the Science of Mind
Thomas Troward (1846–1916) occupies a distinctive and, in many respects, indispensable place within the movement later called New Thought. Where much of that current tended toward exhortation, therapeutic promise, or loosely articulated metaphysics, Troward sought to supply what it otherwise lacked: a principial foundation. His project was not to
From Emptiness to Logos: Fabien Muller’s Kenological Retrieval of the Johannine Prologue
Fabien Muller's Kenologische Versuche: Der Johannesprolog zwischen Nāgārjuna, Vasubandhu und Meister Eckhart (Kenological Essays: The Johannine Prologue between Nāgārjuna, Vasubandhu, and Meister Eckhart, 2022) is one of the most ambitious recent attempts to recover the Johannine Prologue as a text of first philosophy. It is neither a work
Another Blow ‘Gainst the Devil You Know
As a strong protectionist and a supporter of faltering, disjointed efforts to re-establish an effective primacy of politics over economics—building and maintaining the power of sovereign authorities at various levels (from local to supranational) to break with kneejerk neoliberal economism—it pains me once again to see the slapdash
Unmani
Is our horror now more about the dissolution of the boundaries or being entombed by them? We’ve felt somehow thrice at a blow, so: diffusion’s angst and enclosure’s angst and angst’s angst—masticated in upper and lower bestial jaws, what will you not do? Anything, so
The Centre That Can Hold: René Guénon’s The King of the World
The King of the World (Le Roi du monde, 1927) is a short but exceptionally dense work in which René Guénon examines the traditional doctrine of a supreme spiritual centre governing the world. The immediate occasion of the book lies in the early twentieth-century diffusion of accounts concerning Agarttha and
Tibetan Buddhism
Dakpo Tashi Namgyal: Master of Mahāmudrā
Taken as a whole, Dakpo Tashi Namgyal’s teaching reveals a master who articulated Mahāmudrā not as a collection of exalted claims but as a rigorously tested path of recognition, diagnosis, and integration.
Married to the Mob II: America Settles?
An opinion piece in Vanity Fair wants to give us rubberneckers—or, you know, trainspotters, depending on which side of the tracks we may be standing (there can be only two, right?)—an apter set of historical precedents to talk about the M.O. of really existing Trumpism over against
For Your Discretion: Unsaying the Subject
It gives me hope in the goodness of humanity to know that, unremarked by policymakers or the press or this digital panopticon in which we all voluntarily inform on ourselves, millions of men and women are, beyond a shadow of a doubt, quietly and durably happy. Every incentive structure leads
modernity
Tertium quid nimis: Shoe Drops on Sentinel
"A great master says that his breaking-through is nobler than his emanation, and this is true." ~Meister Eckhart, Sermon 87
A Calque, Ulysses? No, Logos Unbound
The rich will make temples for Śiva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head a cupola of gold. Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay. —Basavaṇṇa (12th cent.), vācana 820.
Dusty Spectacles; or, These Things Too
Ash Wednesday, 2025 “All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!”—Psalm 118:10. It is not that the old school contrarian commentators require remarkable foresight to call the experiment in exceptionalism on its cruel game ahead of time—it is after hours, and