The classical triad of karma, jñāna, and bhakti—work, knowledge, and devotion—maps not three rival roads but the three primordial faculties of the human essence: will, thought, and love. The Bhagavad Gītā taught them as distinct disciplines because each faculty must be purified in its own motion before the three can fuse in integral harmony. Yet …
To speak of incense and talismans is to speak of the oldest metaphysic of culture—the conviction that matter is not inert, that substance may be educated toward spirit. The ancient world understood objects not as dumb extensions of human will but as participants in the cosmic liturgy: microcosmic points where the invisible condensed into the …
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The Angelic Archetype of Intelligence Every civilization has imagined intermediaries between the unmanifest and the manifest: angels, devas, intelligences, daimones. Their function was neither sentimental nor decorative but metaphysical—to carry form from the intelligible into the sensible. In Plotinus’s Enneads V–VI, intellect (Nous) is the first emanation from the One, a sphere of self-luminous ideas …
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The Gospel of the Machine A new metaphysic of salvation has arisen from laboratories and venture capital. It speaks in the language of optimization rather than grace, upload rather than ascension. Its eschatology promises the overcoming of death through code and the perfection of intelligence through computation. The singularity replaces paradise; the neural interface replaces …
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Emergence of a Planetary Organism Humanity has entered a new phase of its planetary function. Information systems have extended the nervous system of the species across the globe; the internet is the first visible organ of what the paleontologist-theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called the noosphere — the sphere of thought encircling the Earth. In …
The Law of Mutual Sustenance The universe exists through exchange. Every atom, star, and living organism participates in a web of reciprocal maintenance — the principle that nothing sustains itself alone but contributes to and receives from the total order. This notion, articulated by G. I. Gurdjieff and expounded by P. D. Ouspensky in In …
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I. The Present Confusion It has become fashionable in certain circles to speak of “metaphysics” as though it were a form of psychology, speculative abstraction, or vague spirituality. One encounters endless talk of “my metaphysics”, as though the highest knowledge were a matter of personal taste. This usage is not simply imprecise; it is a …
I. The Exhaustion of the Human Formula Modernity has carried the experiment of man to its limit. It has dissected the atom, mapped the genome, networked the planet — and yet left consciousness more fragmented than before. The modern project promised mastery; it delivered dispersion. Our age has exhausted the human formula. The old powers …
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Metaphysics has always pointed beyond the ordinary. To enter its field is to realize that the human being is not complete, not final, not finished. Life is more than survival and repetition; it is an opening toward possibilities beyond what we presently know. The first recognition is simple yet radical: there are indefinitude of possibilities …
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