Returning to tradition will not solve the dissolution of tradition because it is blind to the primary cause of the dissolution, specifically, the evolution of consciousness.
Traditionalists believe man who lived a thousand years ago is essentially the same as contemporary man.
The only thing that has changed is the external world, which traditionalists generally regard as the true ruler of men.
Change the external world into its old form, and tradition will return. Or, more precisely, tradition will have the chance to reimpose itself on man, i.e., the masses will fall into place and adhere to whatever the external world dictates.
The ultimate goals of traditionalists tend to be external in orientation because they view the internal as constant. Hence, spirit is primarily an affair of externals for most traditionalists. Any expected change can only occur there. Everything else amounts to the soap bubble nonsense of hyper-individualism and uber-subjectivity.
Traditionalists argue that an external, uniform, and universal law exists. Man’s only spiritual duty is to submit to it.
However, man has already un-spiritually submitted to another external, uniform, universal law.
He has already given up his freedom. Thus, he has nothing left to give tradition.
He feels no need to submit to other externals because he is already in submission.
What he truly needs is discovery—the realization that he is a free and creative spirit.
But that is an entirely internal (spiritual) matter.
Traditionalists believe man who lived a thousand years ago is essentially the same as contemporary man.
The only thing that has changed is the external world, which traditionalists generally regard as the true ruler of men.
Change the external world into its old form, and tradition will return. Or, more precisely, tradition will have the chance to reimpose itself on man, i.e., the masses will fall into place and adhere to whatever the external world dictates.
The ultimate goals of traditionalists tend to be external in orientation because they view the internal as constant. Hence, spirit is primarily an affair of externals for most traditionalists. Any expected change can only occur there. Everything else amounts to the soap bubble nonsense of hyper-individualism and uber-subjectivity.
Traditionalists argue that an external, uniform, and universal law exists. Man’s only spiritual duty is to submit to it.
However, man has already un-spiritually submitted to another external, uniform, universal law.
He has already given up his freedom. Thus, he has nothing left to give tradition.
He feels no need to submit to other externals because he is already in submission.
What he truly needs is discovery—the realization that he is a free and creative spirit.
But that is an entirely internal (spiritual) matter.
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