Back To Basics (Life)
“I adjure you by the living God Almighty and by your duty to our Order and by the love you …
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A Mask Of God
“Symbols hold the mind to truth but are not themselves truth, hence it is delusory to borrow them. Each civilization, …
A Poets Line
No, not what passes for poetry these days. Satire, lamentation, misty longing, erotic yearning, or even fleeting exuberance, verbose and …
An Indictment Of Modern Education
I knew the day would come when I would have to include these quotes in the Omphalos Cafe record. …
Words With A Certain Ring Of Truth
“The contrast between a tribal community and an eminently modern, urban agglomeration is one of extremes—from a spiritual, metaphysical standpoint …
Words Flowering From A Quiet Place
Quiet words issuing from a quiet place So quiet and still They cannot be heard Except By the quietest hearts …
Better Late Than Never, I Suppose
“And the second [Spenglarian pseudomorphoses] might be termed the Levantine revenge; namely, the massive diffusion of Pauline Christianity over the …
Proust’s Recapturing Of Time Lost
“…I would make as if to put away the book which I imagined was still in my hands, and to …
Casting… The Dice
Quiet, contemplative days. Forced inactivity a welcome respite from the daily round. Not that the daily round was overly disagreeable. …
The Game….And Is That A Popping Sound I Hear?
“Whereas the typical Occidental hero is a personality, and therefore necessarily tragic, doomed to be implicated seriously in the agony …
