The Philosophical Mind

It is impossible for the Modern Mind to comprehend metaphysical principles as a true transcendent Reality. This is because the Modern Mind is taught to quantify experience into two opposing buckets of information:1) the rational and “real”, and, 2) the irrational and “imaginative”.

The relativist philosophers of the ‘Enlightenment', and forefathers of modern western thought, taught that all knowledge arises from external sensible perceptions. It is therefore impossible to have true knowledge of transcendent universal principles. As a result, the gnosis of the classical Philosopher, as Union with the object of knowledge, is unattainable by the relativistic Modern Mind. That which cannot be explained by rational analysis is therefore irrational and in the relativistic Modern Mind an inferior and imaginative sentiment.

This “left-brain”/” right-brain” split does not exist in the traditional Philosophical Mind, which instead accepts the Unity of all things. It does not differentiate between the physical manifestation and the metaphysical principle; the symbol does not represent meaning, the symbol IS the meaning. Through the lens of the Philosophical Mind the rational and irrational are merely vessels for transcendent principles.

Thanks to the "Enlightenment" , the modern world fails to see reality as a spectrum of truths, opting instead for discrete units of quantification. For this reason the Modern Mind struggles between the dualities of sacred being and profane existence… binary distinctions that do not exist in the qualitative mind of the traditional Philosopher.

The initiate who aspires to break the bindings of material and physical existence must first transmute the relativist Modern Mind into the universal Philosophical Mind. Only with this Promethean power of Philosophical Mind, can one aspire to steal the immortal Fire from the gods.

Sacred Astronomy

Astronomy, like geometry and mathematics is one of these venues through which the principles of harmonic logos, and the subtle workings of Kosmos are made manifest for the Philosopher to contemplate. In Sacred Astronomy, the Philosophical Mind found the keys to God's kingdom and the road map to immortality. However, since the schism of the ‘Enlightenment', Sacred Astronomy has been replaced by profane astronomy and mundane astrology. These two sub-disciplines by consequence of their separation are incomplete systems, and can thus never reflect the transcending principle of traditional Sacred Astronomy.

Astrology has degenerated to cheap materialism; addressing questions of love, money, and body-ego success; it has lost its purpose and sacred essence. By being divorced from the science of astronomy, astrology is no longer a quest for qualifying the harmony and order of Kosmos. Unlike the Chaldean Magi, the Egyptian Horary Priests, and the Pythagorean and Neo-Platonic astronomers, the astrologer today does not seek to understand the universe, but rather aspires to ‘divine' the future for materialistic purposes and to understand earth-bound personalities and sentiments.

Rather than employing Sacred Astronomy as a means to resurrection, as a meditation to break through the restricting cycles and physical structure of the heavens and reunite with the eternal One; the mundane astrologer remains in the fallen state reflecting the patterns of the heavens back towards earth and tellurian matters. Thereby, the mundane astrologer will always be subject to the fate of the stars and will remain a peasant in God's Kingdom bonded to the wheel of life and death. The proverb of the Philosopher's Sapien dominator Astris , ‘the wise rule over the stars', resonates with unfathomable truth.