Ethereal Insights

The whore of Babylon a illustrated in Hortus deliciarum Artificial Intelligence | Friday – September 18, 2026 I ntelligence has never been a subject that I have cared too much about, mostly because I believe that I do not quite understand what intelligence is and what could be done with it. Intelligence also strikes me as a rather secular invention, meant to create or instil a kind of pseudo hierarchy on the world, an inverted hierarchy where the games of some kind of darwinian and material order takes precedence above all else. Well, this kind of thing really does not interest me, but then there is the curious concept these days of "artificial intelligence", which is a step even further away from something quite normal and towards something degenerated and deviated. Before I make some observations here about what I actually think about artificial intelligence, allow me to first attempt to define what intelligence actually is. It seems that intelligence, from a purely materi...

Biblical ( תַּנַ״ךְ ) depiction of the flight from Sodom and Gomorrah Duty or Call? Thursday – September 17, 2026 N avigating the difficult terrain in front of us can be hard, and in this way life can surely be said to be a curse. Oh yes, especially for those men who are facing disaster whether or not they like it, and this is the case for plenty of men out there, out there in the world, vast though it seems in this even larger cosmos. Yes, because that terrain is really filled with landmines, and sometimes you do not know when one of those mines will blow up, and when that happens you could die, but perhaps even worse you could lose one or both of your legs, your vision, your hearing, and perhaps even your mind. Yes, these are real things that afflict men every day, and if you have some kind of trouble understanding this, then perhaps you have already lost your mind, read " What is Mental Illness "? The question that I am dealing with today is truly difficult, and one of wre...

Pope Leo X's Bull against the errors of Martin Luther ( Exsurge Domine ) The Problem with Protestantism | Wednesday – September 16, 2026 P rotestantism was not the beginning of the many problems that have occured in the last centuries, this from a Western point of view, but Protestantism was the start of something much more palpable and impactful at the level of corporeal conception, namely a profound step in the political evolution of the Western World , individuation and individualism. If Protestantism started out as a rebellion against the Pope, the Pontiff , and really the Holy Roman Empire itself, it ended by not only creating an entirely new Church and doctrine, but by creating an entirely new and wicked mode of being, that of political individualism. If in the past men had to interact with God through the clergy and through their spiritual autothority, a bridge really that represented a connection with the divine, a qualified connection , Martin Luther decided sever this con...