Esoteric Study of History

I first encountered the presence of esoteric doctrine in the study of history in a remark by Ortega y Gasset, who said, "the star of the imperium moves ever westward". Well, a cursory look at the recent history of man verifies this. From Mesopotamia, to Greece and the Pax Romana, northwest to Europe, and then across the sea to America.— Matthew Smallwood. Published Aug 19, 2019The musica universalis very clearly makes itself felt in the pulses and rhythms of history. Sorokin has a very interesting book which documents the disintegration of ideational society into sensate society, in the form of crime and other chaotic episodes. RJ Rushdoony argued in one of his smaller books (one I read at a much younger and more ignorant age) that disasters and upheavals are increasing in frequency, although he lacked the esoteric tools to make much more sense out of it than to say, we are living in a Godless age. And Oswald Spengler provided a powerful case that civilizations are organisms with a natural life and rhythm, with the obvious logical extension that civilization has to be extended with supernatural power, if it is to persist and avoid going the way of all flesh: Sic transit Gloria.
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History; Evola; Esotericism; Origins; Psychological Study of History
Category:History