For anyone who may be interested, I have one (1) ticket for the sold-out show Thursday (featuring Bolt Thrower), that I'm looking to sell. Please send a private message to inquire further.

Greetings.

I couldn't help but share Rodney Blackhirst's essay "The Alchemy of Traditional Foods", which may be along the lines of what you're looking for.

RUNNING ORDER FOR MDF 2012

Thursday, May 24th
Entrance opens at 4:00 pm

Main room

Extermination Angel - 4:45 - 5:10
Die Pigeon Die - 5:25 - 5:50
Needful Things - 6:05 - 6:40
Rorschach - 6:55 - 7:40
Dying Fetus- 7:55 - 8:40
Absu - 8:55 - 9:40
Eyehategod - 9:55 - 10:45
Agalloch - 11:00 - 12:00
Autopsy - 12:15 - end


Friday, May 25th
Entrance opens at 3:00 pm    

Main room

Castevet - 3:30 - 4:00
Nashgul - 4:15 - 4:45
Ghoul - 5:00 - 5:40
Today is the Day - 6:10 - 6:55
Negura Bunget - 7:25 - 8:25
Unsane - 10:40 - 11:25
Setherial - 11:40 - 12:25
Nasum - 12:40 - end

Outside Stage 1

Demigod - 5:40 - 6:20
Artillery - 7:15 - 8:10
Godflesh - 9:30 - 10:40

Outside Stage 2

Macabre - 6:20 - 7:10
Napalm Death - 8:25 - 9:25
   

Saturday, May 26th
Entrance opens at 12:00 pm    

Main room

Infernal Stronghold - 12:30 - 1:00
Bloody Phoenix - 1:15 - 1:45
Looking for an Answer - 2:00 - 2:35
Dragged into Sunlight - 2:55 - 3:25
Black Witchery - 3:50 - 4:35
The Devil's Blood - 5:45 - 6:30
Archgoat - 6:45 - 7:30
Horna - 7:45 - 8:30
Noothgrush - 8:45 - 9:30
Tsjuder - 10:35 - 11:25
Haemorrhage - 11:40 - 12:25
Winter - 12:40 - end

Outside Stage 1

October 31 - 4:30 - 5:00
Deviated Instinct - 5:50 - 6:40
Confessor - 7:30 - 8:20
Morbid Angel - 9:30 - 10:40

Outside Stage 2

Hellbastard - 3:25 - 4:10
Morbid Saint - 5:00 - 5:45
Anvil - 6:40 - 7:30
Brujeria - 8:25 - 9:25


Sunday, May 27th
Entrance opens at 1:00 pm

Main room

Backslider - 1:30 - 2:00
Coke Bust - 2:15 - 2:45
Agents of Abhorrence - 3:00 - 3:30
Cough - 3:45 - 4:25
Rwake - 4:40 - 5:20
Ulcerate - 5:40 - 6:25
YOB - 6:40 - 7:25
Nausea - 7:40 - 8:15
Sargeist - 10:35 - 11:20
Bethlehem - 11:35 - 12:25
Mortuary Drape - 12:40 - end

Outside Stage 1

Demonical - 4:00 - 4:40
Church of Misery - 5:30 - 6:20
Suffocation - 7:20 - 8:10
Electric Wizard - 9:30 - 10:40

Outside Stage 2

Disma - 3:15 - 3:55
Morgoth - 4:45 - 5:30
Pentagram - 6:25 - 7:15
Saint Vitus - 8:15 - 9:20


See you there!

On the idea of walking alone: Rama Coomaraswamy, "Advice to Serious Seekers"

Major traditionalist publishers:

http://www.worldwisdom.com/

http://www.sophiaperennis.com/

http://www.sophiajournal.com/

http://www.sacredweb.com/

The idea is simple: bring back the Pagan idea of a divine order in which evil and good are in balance, and not all that appears evil is evil, for example the death by natural selection of the unwise.

A word on idioms: From the traditional Christian point of view, it is the pagan, precisely, that is the fatalist--in failing to distinguish between virtue and vice, for example--and egalitarian--in denying the hierarchies intrinsic to all existence. And again, from this same perspective, goodness and intelligence are likewise divine, whereas stupidity is synonymous with sin. To understand Christianity, one must first of all come to term with such idioms.

Regard "occupying" Christianity, the Freemasons subverted the last of traditional Western Christianity following the Second World War in a Europe weakened by the final triumph of liberalism.

The core philosophical messages of Christianity are, and always have been, egalitarianism and the profanity of our existence. . . . We are now seeing, in our time, the full flowering of the core Xian doctrine. Egalitarianism = democracy, nomocracy, mass imigration, racial/cultural miscegenation; profanity of existence = ecocide, mass social anomie, atheism, excessive materialism.

The natural order is implicitly divine (and, unlike the moderns would have it, an agency of intelligence and an arbiter of wisdom), anthropomorphically symbolized in the ever virgin Mother of God. Denouncements of "worldliness," so often misrepresented (occasionally deliberately by liberals) are with reference to the artifice of human cunning, often in the face of (again) natural law. Let's not forget that the French Revolution culminated with the worship of the goddess "Reason" in a desecrated Cathedral of Notre Dame in 1793, led by the very forces championing industrialization.

Ultimately, one can't have it both ways: either traditional Christianity was a legitimate religious tradition and a vehicle of truth that resulted in a glorious empire lasting a thousand years but cut short by the humanism of the so-called Renaissance, or the very confluence of the German and Latin geniuses that became Christendom ("Europe") is itself illegitimate.

A final word: the point of departure for all religious traditions involves the notion of an objective and infallible Revelation, the macrocosmic analogue of the (divine) intelligence residing within the subject of the human microcosm. Rejection of the notion of Revelation will seem to any traditional interlocutor--whether Muslim or Hindu, it doesn't matter--as a denial of intelligence itself. One does not approach a king from behind; the same holds with respect to the sacred.

Quote from: Goluf on November 19, 2011, 04:57:49 PM

The only (well, not the only...) claim needing evidence here is yours. Differences of caste may always have existed, but to say that they correspond directly to the "innate qualities of the human being" does not follow. This would mean that in all instances of caste division (let alone a visible caste system) everyone behaved in the way prescribed to, predicted by, or expected of them by their caste, which you yourself proved incorrect in your previous post when you detailed how the French aristocratic class became "corrupted".

The caste system is the traditional (and best) model for describing qualitative difference between human beings.  It has existed in virtually all traditional civilisations in some form or another, suggesting that it possesses a degree of universality.  Of course there are exceptions, as there are with any system, but exceptions do not disprove rules and it is an extremely biased logic which claims otherwise.

I would like to add that when speaking of the notion of castes, both in terms of intrinsic human differences in potential spirituality and a corresponding institutionalization, it is important to correctly the cause-and-effect relationship between the two: spirituality determines caste, not the other way around. The castes correspond to differing levels of spiritual potential (imagine a vertical axis), just as the races correspond to various psychosomatic possibilities (horizontal axes): this is the traditional view. What can be called "natural castes" persist even with the disintegration of the institution.

Apropos I will leave you with a quotation from Frithjof Schuon's "Survey of Integral Anthropology," remarking also on the somewhat problematic phenomenon of genius:

It is not of institutionalized--hence necessarily approximate--castes that we wish to speak here, but of natural castes, those based on the intrinsic nature of individuals; the institutional castes are merely their legal applications, and in fact they are more often symbolical rather than effective as regards the real potentialities of persons, above all in later times; nonetheless they have a certain practical and psychological justification, otherwise they would not exist traditionally.

The essential point here is that mankind is psychologically differentiated by gifts and by ideals: there is the ideal of the sage or the saint, then the ideal of the hero; next the ideal of the respectable and "reasonable" average man, and finally that of the man who seeks no more than the pleasures of the moment, and whose virtue consists in obeying and being faithful. But, aside from men who are psychologically homogeneous, there is also the man "without a center," who is capable of "all and nothing," and who is readily an imitator and also a destroyer. Let us hasten to add, however, that in this world there are distinctions and shades of difference in everything, and that if we must take note of inferior human possibilities it is not in order to pronounce verdicts upon individuals; for "what is impossible for man, is possible for God."

We mentioned "gifts" above, and this allows us now to consider the phenomenon of talent or genius. First of all, it is all too clear that genius has value only through its content, and is even of no worth in the absence of human values which ought to accompany it; and that consequently, it would be better for a "great man" with a problematical character to have less talent and more virtue. The cause of genius is a hypertrophy or supersaturation due to heredity or, as the transmigrationists would say, to a certain karma, hence to the merits or demerits of a former life, as the case may be. The karma is in any case benefic when it is the vehicle of spiritual values or when it gives rise to them; obviously, the great sages and saints of all traditional climates were men of genius--but they were not merely that, precisely.