Wyatt gets it right, nonetheless, to ask whether an atomic, subatomic, or purely ‘physical’ view of nature gets us anywhere at all. Even the much-vaunted “H2-O” tells us precious little about water’s nature, after all, in contrast to a sip or a swim. America’s last philosopher, the late beloved James Larson, has written well on this subject at WarAgainstBeing.com.
St Benedict Joseph Labre
16th April, 2021 A. D.
A philospher named Peter Chojnowski writes that Wolfgang Smith’s “‘right-wing’ occult traditionalism [] is actually nothing more than a refined and up-to-date Manicheanism.” I hear similar echoes in today’s piece hereabove, possibly reducing man to a corporeal presence with some kind of Platonic dualistic form, overlaid, so to speak, whereas man is actually an “incarnate soul,” as St. Thomas beautifully put it. And even while the soul is immortal, and upon death passes solo to Heaven, Hell or Purgatory, while the body is laid to rest in the earth, it does so in an incomplete form. The body too will rise again one day, be reunited with, and thus complete the soul, that is to say the individual man made whole again, on the Last Day (when the trumpet will sound and all). Thus it is evident that Man’s ultimate destiny, whatever that may be–Heaven or Hell–is a destination of both body and soul. This according to traditional Catholic teaching, or perennial philosphy as it was once known.
Wyatt gets it right, nonetheless, to ask whether an atomic, subatomic, or purely ‘physical’ view of nature gets us anywhere at all. Even the much-vaunted “H2-O” tells us precious little about water’s nature, after all, in contrast to a sip or a swim.
America’s last philosopher, the late beloved James Larson, has written well on this subject at WarAgainstBeing.com.
As to Smith, I am uninitiated, but wary, to say the least. I invite your review of an article published just today pointing out Smith’s connection to the occult over at http://radtradthomist.chojnowski.me/2021/04/traditionalist-occult-neo-modernism.html, where Dr. Chojnowski prefaces a review of Smith’s obscure but significant work: In Quest of Catholicity: Malachi Martin Responds to Wolfgang Smith (2016).
In quest of something, at any rate.
I for one will read both the book, as Fr. Malachy Martin has long intrigued me for his take both on the origins of the clerical Homosexual Network Strangling the Church as well as on the Third Secret of Fatima and its prediction of, unsurprisingly given the success of the former, utter “Apostasy in the Church at the highest levels,” but also Dr. C’s review, with interest, especially in view of the recent Coulombe Tarot Kerfluffle. Cf. Alistair McFadden on Esotericism and the One True Faith, https://justacatholic.medium.com/, for some light weekend reading on the state of Traditionalism Inc. in the Church.
CPB https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/35248/