Artwork by Lynn Meyers

Our age is an anthitesis of what timeless tradition would want it to be - a reflection of the cosmos - as above, so below.

Instead it as an age of disequilibrium, progressive materialization and negation of the higher order. It is all about forgeting. Once our focus shifted to lower spheres we began to consider them as the only reality and began to develop in that way. That is why one of the essential features of this age is a strong desire for action, functionality and specialization while sensibility and introspection is for losers. There is no unity. Science, arts and religion are striving into different directions. We have seen a strong rise of science whose main purpose is to produce practical applications - an idea that blends perfectly with materialization. That is why investment in this kind of science is so important today. It is not longer seen as an analogy of the higer orders but it has become a specialized skill of collecting facts. Knowledge for knowledge's sake is considered an unusal attraction.  Action and being new is valued, irrelevant of the results. Even the revival of tradition is accepted if brings certain benefit.

Everything is involved. The rise of individualism has made us live for ourselves and think that our ideas are unique and ours only, forgeting that a true idea belongs to everyone. In arts emphasizing functionality (so called honesty), and seeking for truth (at the expense of aesthetics) is a key point of modernity. Aesthetics are subject to machines and functionality. The schools suppress the tradition and teach the student to reform (ironically the original meaning of the word is to restore something into original condition) the old and explore the new concepts. They learn them how to forget. A strong urge for new results in so many experimental concepts revealing nothing, only some of which really make sense. Art is seen by different groups of people as something unecessary since it does not produce anything or as a tool whose influence is used to conquer the rest of the world. Arts using analogy to reflect the knowledge beyond material spheres are considered an unusual attraction too. To appreciate beauty itself is considered unproductive.

Our schools are infected by pseudo wise professors of learned ignorance trying to produce as much as their clones as possible. Bureaucratic engineering and all kind of analyisis is used to prove their own efficacy and achievements, forgeting that failure is also a part of learning. If you happen to fail then you buy ETCS points. Our civilization par exellence. The present state of society where everybody can do anything (including me writing this post) and whose imbalance is in favor of action and materialization prevents from making serious changes.

This is the summary that descirbes the the roots of our problem. It is a text which is just a derivation of ideas coming from Rene Guenon and Konrad Paul Liessmann. Posting it could help us in restoring the lost meaning of tradition.

 Often times i think to myself that there is no something they call "new". Either something is worthy of a human being or it's not. Modernity is all about "new", denying the past and disclosing the bourgeois at the expense of the aestehitcs. Every improvement made in the rational realm is called "evolution" and change for change's sake is valued. Here comes tradition. One of it's purpose is not to keep things untouched, but to create hierarchy and order that reflects one found in nature, so that we always may be connected to our true source. For tradition everything is reflected in all. If it is true that the material world is only a reflection of the higher worlds then what does the ugliness and lack of detail around us mean?

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