Why Francis Bacon is Properly Considered a Founding Father of Modernity
It’s no wonder the poet William Blake wrote of Bacon’s essays, “Good advice for Satan’s Kingdom.”
Eric Scheske
Introducing Eric Voegelin
Voegelin was not charismatic. He was a “gentleman thinker.” He didn’t like small talk and valued his time. His personality didn’t attract a cult-like following. He didn’t establish a school or movement. But he’s important.
The Metaxy: A Primer
Christianity says life is hard because of Original Sin.
Eric Voegelin would say it's hard because we live in the metaxy.
METAXY: The permanent in-between structure of existence. Sometimes referred to as the between or in-between, meaning that humans live in a structure of reality that is between
Top Ten Mystics of the 14th Century
They were the rock stars of late medieval Europe
The Gnostic Never Blames Himself
Part II of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits
Southern Life, Agrarian Vision: The Apprenticeship of Andrew Lytle
By Mark Malvasi at The Imaginative Conservative
You See What You Are
"[E]ach man judges others by his own state, that is, by what he is himself--in virtues or sins." Symeon the New Theologian.
Many thinkers, such as Marcus Aurelius, made this same observation.
The Amazon link takes you to an excellent book about Symeon. Like all books in
Everything You Wanted to Know about Bohemianism
But were afraid you'd get an erection
Voegelin’s New Science of Politics Put Gnosticism Back into Our Awareness
💡If you want to understand how gnosticism flourishes in our modern world, you need to understand why it developed in the ancient world
Time magazine ran a peculiar feature in 1953.
It used a five-page analysis of The New Science of Politics to celebrate the magazine’s 30th anniversary, stating
The Modern Gnostic Wants His Structure to Control
Part VI of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin’s Six Gnostic Traits (Part II of Two Parts)