Ethereal Insights

Photograph of the Atlas globe Modern beauty | Sunday – December 14, 2025 In my post on the topic of beauty , I made it clear that most modern forms and varieties of beauty represent a corrupted and really diseased form of beauty: I like to think of modern beauty as a form of pleasurable hatred at the destruction of the world. What I mean by this is that modern men celebrate the destruction of true beauty and extol the imposition of corruption, and I do believe that corruption is a good way of seeing ugliness in the world. Why do modern men value anti-beauty? Well, before I answer this question I'd like to further refine my definition of beauty: beauty is fundamentally effortless; beauty does not require further intervention or input, and if something requires a vast overhaul then you are not dealing with beauty. Indeed, most modern beauty ideals are really constructed around something artificial. What makes a woman beautiful in the year of our lord 2025? All sorts of products that ...

Depiction of  the "Whore of Babylon" From Martin Luther's translation of the Bible To be Ugly | Saturday – October 3, 2026 F or some people it is actually the case that being ugly is a good thing, and I believe that we are prudent in understanding that beauty is not always necessary in people. You see, by being beautiful a woman, for instance, says to herself and to the world that she is good enough, and perhaps this is a good thing, but why is she good enough? Is she good enough in and of herself? Hardly, a beautiful woman is really nothing more than an extension of the social mores of the day, of the moment, which is why it is true that beauty standards tend to vary across time and culture, but this is only true for beauty standards, and perhaps we should also separate beauty standards from true beauty or core beauty.      If a woman is beautiful today because she is naked, or almost naked, she would have been considered hideous not that long ago, and so these so...

Japanese painting of a Geisha ( 芸者 ) unknown author Sunday: What is beauty? | July 20, 2025 Beauty is the quality that makes quantity stand out among others, it is what brings the material world into the transcendent realm and prompts the attention of man in the form of worship , for the material that can be said to be beautiful is fundamentally righteous in every particle. Man sees beauty all around him: within himself, in the constitution of other men, in the grace of the natural motion , and within the whole creation. Verily, beauty is the very justification for man's consciousnesses, for beauty is enough in and of itself to justify man's awareness of himself and other men in the world, and the world itself, and without beauty, the fundamental quality at the core of discrimination , there would be no world to react to—no call to seek the truth and to traverse the high seas, no call to adventure , and no reason for being in the first place. Any man of sensible predilection wo...

A rare example of a Shakta Ardhanarishvara ( अर्धनारीश्वर ) Hindu ( ॐ ) depiction Beauty Standards | Thursday – April 23, 2026 H ahahahahaha! Beauty standards ... HA HA HA HA HA! What a joke and what a big fat lie, and yes I used the word fat for a reason. There are no beauty standards, at least not in the year of our lord 2026. But since I brought up fat people , or the word fat to be precise, I suppose that it should be just as well for me to point out that the vast majority of people are fat, and if you consider this a beauty standard, then you have very low standards, and actually those standards do not qualify, read more about that here .     Recently I wrote about anorexia again, which I must say is a funny subject to be right about, and I have been thinking more about fat people and skinny people, and how they relate to the essential side and substantive side of life, and yes it is pretty obvious that fat people are quite substantive. I can go on, but I am not a hater,...

Hindu ( ॐ ) depiction of Rakta Bhairava ( रक्तभैरव ) Attraction | Friday – June 5, 2026 A ttraction... What is it and why are people treating it so inefficiently? First of all, attraction is actually not about being efficient per se , but attraction is treated in a way that can only be described as convoluted and complex, but complex for stupid reasons. As a phenomena attraction is really something that happens to you whether or not you like it, and like any other involuntary thing in life attraction has to be treated as a sign of something, and really not only as a sign of something but as a kind of pain, for at the end of the day the only thing that would rightly describe attraction is pain. Now, if you have skillful means you would understand how to treat this particular form of pain, read " Celibacy ", and you would effectively find a way to remove this pain, and this is really what is meant with treating attraction in an efficient way. Now, you may ask why it is that y...

Peter Paul Rubens' The Rape of Proserpina ( ἁρπαγή τῆς Περσεφόνης ) Why are Most People Ugly? Sunday – May 17, 2026 I n our disturbed times ugliness seems to permeate every corner of the world, and yes people are truly ugly, loud, self-centered, and offensive. Why is this? Well, there are many reasons, but I would be remiss if I, again, did not once again assert that individualism is the main cause for this, but then again, individualism is just the most exoteric expression of the deviation, and must therefore be understood in the context of the cyclical order, but of course for most modern men, even the ones who claim to oppose individualism, everything is always compartmentalized and each problem is supposed to be solved in some kind of superimposed isolation, because these people lack skills and above all they lack knowledge ; when a man lacks skills, when he lacks knowledge, he does become truly ugly.      It is also the case that people are physically uglier these ...

A Vision of the Great Hyperborean Sea God Arktida ( सुमेरु ) By Vsevolod Borisovich Ivanov What is Divine Inspiration? Wednesday – May 6, 2026 D ivine inspiration is one of those things that seem fairly vague and even abstract, particularly to the modern audience, but there is surely a case to be made that divine inspiration is something quite vague, and even vague on purpose. It seems rather obvious that complexity tend to be further removed from men, or rather the things in life that lack an easy understanding, and that is to say they are qualified, read " Qualification ", and may only be revealed to the elect, read as well " Hierarchy ", at the inner core. Divine inspiration in general is not something that requires some special ability or some special set of abilities, and really divine inspiration is actually available to everyone, and in this regard I would assert that it requires no particular qualification to receive divine instruction; however, what indeed ...

Hindu ( ॐ ) depiction of Ganga ( गङ्गा ) at Kalighat ( কালীঘাট ) Does Money Make You Happy? Saturday – May 23, 2026 H aving or not having... Perhaps that should be the question? At least if you are a modern man. At least if you are a man that operates under the material assumption of functionality ... You empty, poor soul! Shame on you!     Look, that last part is out of scope I know, but money is important, at least that is the world we have to contend with, not that the creator, read " Who or What is God? ", intended for this, but then again we have to understand the world from the point of view of the Cyclical order if we intend to actually make something of this all; if we actually intend to make a clear statement about whether or not money should make you happy. It would be perfectly, indeed it is perfectly, understandable that most men would become more happy if they suddenly, that sudden part is important here, became more wealthy, but the fact that this crude and tem...

Kazusa Kanōzan ( 上総鹿野山 ) – Mount Kanō ( 鹿野山 ) Sunday: What is tradition? | July 27, 2025 The artifacts shaped by the forces of deep time that are particular to any culture, region, or land can be said to be the material aspects of that tradition, for they shape and govern the course of destiny and as such they become integral parts of the human condition as well as the cardinal feature that clearly separates one culture from another, one region from another, and one land from another – this is the essence of tradition in the material domain. The wish to adhere to tradition is for man the call to uphold the orderly , to remain on the course of destiny and to remain anchored to the celestial order , for all men have upon their shoulders the awesome responsibility of ancestral responsibility, for a man that rejects the wish and the ways of his ancestors is not a man, he is the beast , and such is the case with modern man, a pathetic creature in the shadow of a once great man. Traditi...

Photograph of the Atlas globe Observations about Obesity | Thursday – March 26, 2026 O besity is perhaps the most indicative tragedy of the modern world, a true monstrosity. But why is this the case, why obesity? Well try to read some of my earlier texts about this subject before you go on with this post, as they provide crucial information. Here is a link to all my posts containing the word "fat".     Of course, it would be all too easy perhaps, to assume that there is some kind of addiction , really some kind of demon , behind the ever growing rate of obesity, particularly in the so-called "developed" world , and yes this would surely be a part of the problem, but you see it would be just as well to suggest that ideological indoctrination plays an even greater part, because after all the issue is not one of mere individualism; obesity is at this point a global and systemic, as certain particularly and conspicuously hip persons would refer to it , problem and rea...