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Category Archives: Spengler

Same Old Song….!

March 16, 2025

  “If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come …

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The Untaught Key to Us All….

October 21, 2023

 “Their holy places are the woods and groves, and they call by the name of God that hidden presence which …

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The “Fathomless Secret”…

October 13, 2023

 “A fathomless secret of the cosmic flowings that we call Life is their separation into two sexes.”—Oswald Spengler, The Decline …

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Mature Man, The Celebrant….

August 13, 2023

    “Man as the meaning of the world! What exaltation! This fragile creature that has ‘spirit’ for 5,000 years …

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No One Cares!…

August 8, 2023

  “How this world has changed! A laughing world-spirit above the gears looks down today on respectable top hats [this …

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Washing Dishes….

August 1, 2023

  “Added to all this is the universal dread of reality. We ‘pale faces’ have it, all of us, although …

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The Return….

July 8, 2023

  “It is to obey the command of life that reason finally comes, not through cowardice, but through courage, to …

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Why Joseph Campbell?

February 3, 2022

  Ok, on numerous occasions I’ve insisted that Joseph Campbell’s four volume series, The Masks Of God, is the most …

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Celebrating Giants Of The Human Spirit!

December 17, 2021

  How long ago now was it that I first cracked the spine of Joseph Campbell’s Creative Mythology? Thirty years? …

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An Attempt At A Poetic Reply….

October 31, 2021

  Response to an email with a link to an article in The Atlantic magazine on a book titled The …

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