Ancient wisdom

Photograph of Idol of Devi Kali
at the Kalighat (কালীঘাট) Temple

Ancient wisdom |
Thursday – December 11, 2025

In modern times it has become commonplace for crucial information about the world, primarily material but also metaphysical, to be compartmentalized and concentrated in the object of the expert: this includes everything from how to walk a dog to how to create a nuclear reactor, and more often than not these people, these experts, are accredited by some major and "trusted" institution backed up by the revolutionary elite. This approach to information really showcases how most things are carried out in modern times: everything has to play a certain and defined role in order for it to have any place or claim to the fundamental institutions of society. Of course, this serves certain roles, but the primary purpose of this kind of compartmentalization of information into certain expertise and really certain roles serves the primary purpose of replacing God. Since modern man has decided to make himself, to appoint himself, as God and ruler of the world, there has to be some form of stability and some place where men can place their grievances and questions about the world: when in the past men trusted their Gods and their ancient traditions; men today trust their expertise and their ingenuity, and while this arrangement seems good, especially for men who have embraced the beastly form, the ancient wisdom's of the world and of deep time are becoming lost, which in turn means that the light and the source is diminished and will continue to diminish in the life of men, and without this source the world will and is falling apart in an accelerating fashion. For most men it was natural to consult ancient ancestral wisdom, but in the modern world once someone dies, they are cheaply and without much delay replaced, and the wheels of the material order keeps moving: yes the material order very much a self-perpetuating system that really has become disconnected from humanity, and in my view there's just a matter of time before humanity will themselves replaced by this monstrous and unforgiving machinery of material perpetuation. But indeed, most men are too lazy and too beastly to acknowledge this, and even if they do, their laziness and the comforts of the material world are constructed to keep him in place, by sapping him of all vital essence, and of all real forms of skillful means.

    If you ask an average man today about the world, would you expect him to be able to answer any questions about the fundamental constitution of the world? Of course not, most modern men would happily defer to expertise, because the world makes itself impossible to comprehend, it really insists upon this, and expectedly this is by design. Where in the past the mark of a man, especially a man of ascendant rank, was that he more than anything else had profound insight about the world and wisdom about the fundamentals of the world, both materially and spiritually, most men today can only be described as lazy slobs. Really, true men of the past were well rounded about the word and about the fundamental constitution of the world. But since the inception of this age of modernity, of imposed chaos and commotion, has made the world so complicated and noisy and more than anything else unfriendly and fast it has become impossible for any man to keep up, and as a result this state of individuality has been made unavoidable, a very tragic fate indeed, and really from a historical point of view a very bizarre death of masculinity. After all, how can any man be expected to keep up when his life now revolves around continual competition over material benefits with the entire world? No man can keep up with this. So any reasoned man, even those who are far-seeing, resort to compartmentalization: indeed individualism is nothing else than a very crude and necessary form of compartmentalization, which indeed is one of the most bizarre developments in history. After all, should this so-called "open" and globalizing world not make men less compartmental and less bordered? Should this state of affairs not encourage men to seek out the world? No, because it's overwhelming and more than merely overwhelming, it's artificial and unnatural.

    Ancient wisdom was used to connect men to the Earth and to the past: ancestors used to hold a meaning, a meaning beyond the spirit world; but today in his modern hubris and idolatry, belief more than anything, a belief and obsession with the self-perpetuating nature of greed, materialism, and large numbers has convinced man that his force of material willpower will conquer the universe. Of course, he is sorely mistaken, and this is already becoming ever more apparent, which is a sign of the Kali Yuga and the times to come.

    If you seek stability and truth, then you most unshackle yourself, you must embrace the light and the source.

Reginald Drax – December 11, 2025.