Ethereal Insights

Depiction of Henry VIII in 1542 Frugality | Wednesday – September 23, 2026 T he degradation of the Coinage is actually a rather important but overlooked part of history, read " Gold ", and it should come as no surprise to learn that of all the things that we have to contend with here in the material domain , money has undergone the most advanced and adverse transformation , to the point where it has become a concept entirely of the imagination, that is to say below the material surface of the human order , something that now can only be said to belong to the infrahuman order . Well, spending is what most things revolve around today, and a man has to be capable of spending, at least if he is to be considered a "proper man" and all, read " Gender Roles ". Of course, frugality is still something that people talk about, because yes a man should be able, capable really, of spending, but he should also not spend beyond his station, or really beyond his means, wh...

Photograph of the Atlas globe The News Cycle | Tuesday – September 22, 2026 N ews are all around us these days, read " What is News and Media? ", and the information, the nonsense information, that these newscasts provides us are just that, nonsense, and this is why most people choose to call it the "News Cycle", because within a matter of hours, sometimes minutes, there will be new nonsense information for you to consume, and so you are primed for a continual flow of new information. Really, it would be true to say that you are overloaded with information, and information that is completely useless to you, yet the people who are doing this to you will still get paid at the end of the day, at the end of the news cycle, as if they ever provided you with useful information in the first place. This is a problem, and it is a problem that has gotten worse and worse, and is really a part of a much larger problem, read " The End of History ". Yes, it was perhaps ...

Abraham ( אַבְרָהָם ) Sees Sodom in Flames, by James Tissot Divine Law | Monday – September 21, 2026 D ivine Law is a subject that I keep returning to on this page, and thus far I have written a lot about secular law,* but I have not covered adequately divine law, mostly because this is a large subject and also not an easy subject to write about, since there is not one divine law, at least not today. Today, we are left with, for instance, the 613 laws in the Torah ( תּוֹרָה ), or why not the Decalogue ( עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְּרוֹת )? At any rate, there is no reason to think of one divine law, instead we are left with trying to figure out what divine law is and what divine law concerns us. It would be quite accurate to suggest that a Jew has little use in observing the Sharia ( شريعة ), and vice versa. Well no, not vice versa, because a Moslem could very well find use in at least reading the Torah and trying to understand the 613 laws, and this is due to the inherent theology of most major Is...

Creation of Light ( אוֹר ) By Gustave Doré Genesis, Chapter 13 | Sunday – September 20, 2026 D ue to some ongoing issues that have inadvertently affected my mental faculties, I am currently sluggish and generally feble. Because of this, I am likely to underperform while writing this post, which is just as well, as I am going to cover a short chapter in this post. Although, just because a chapter is short, this alone does not mean that the chapter is of less use or importance. This is of course going to be the 13th post in this series and the 13th chapter of Genesis ( בְּרֵאשִׁית ) in the Old Testament, the Tanakh ( תָּנָ״ךְ ), and more specifically the Torah ( תּוֹרָה ). Again, I am somewhat groggy today so bear with me.     As usual, I should make some initial statements about this series and about my rules in this series, but I have decided that if you wish to know more about all that, you may just read any other post in this series. Here I will provide two links to two of...

Yahweh in (יהוה‎) : Moses and the Burning Bush My Life | Saturday – September 19, 2026 M y life is currently a little bit of a disaster, and this is mostly due to my major and intense issues with my gallbladder , my diseased and degenerated gallbladder, and so because of this, my life is a complete mess, a complete disaster at the moment. Yes, I had a routine, and a somewhat functioning life up until about July, when my latest gallstone attack hit me, and I have yet to be able to recover from that attack, read my " Medical Emergency Updates ". This is not funny, not at all, but since I have to wait for the intervention of modern and profane medicine, I simply have no choice but to suffer through this, and yes it is painful both physically and mentally, and I suppose that the mental pain is always worse than the physical pain, and if not worse, certainly more diffuse and harder to treat and manage. I have also had the misfortune to not be able to develop any kind of disease p...

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...