At the peripheries of all things—philosophy, liturgy, politics, and economy—there is the esoteric. There, the mystical bleeds into the conventional. In perennial and traditionalist philosophy (the boundary…
While central to Western conceptions of time, history did not commence with the birth of Christ. Centuries of pagan culture, art, and thought laid a foundation that…
“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other.” —Macbeth, I.VII Introduction…