Pantheon: Adventures In History, Biography, And The Mind

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My next book, Pantheon, is nearing completion.  It is expected to be released in late March or early April 2015.  Like Thirty-Seven, it will also be a collection of essays.  The themes of the book are:  redemption through suffering, the importance of masculine character, victory through perseverance, the finding of a moral purpose, and the glory of struggle.

But this is a more ambitious project than my previous effort.  A conscious effort has been made to examine sources in their original languages.  There are some efforts at historical fiction, as well as philosophical dialogues.  Most differently, I have summarized and condensed the entire text (all fifty-four treatises) of Plotinus’s Enneads.  It almost forms a book-within-a-book.  The Enneads is the foundational text of Western mysticism, and I have long felt that a basic knowledge of this subject is essential for any man seeking to journey inward, as well as outward.  Much has been written on the physical journeys required by man; we must now explore the inner journey.

More will be posted as information becomes available.

The Launch

And now we begin the great journey.

I had resisted getting a website at first.

But I soon came to realize that for me, as a writer, having my own platform was the best way to amplify my voice.

This site is the result.  The launch of this ship is a beginning, but will have no end.

“Choice is not an end,” the Renaissance scholar Francesco Filelfo tells us, “but chooses things related to an end.”  [De Exilio, III.148]

I will try to keep posts here to an enlightened minimum, being aware that brevity is the soul of mercy, as well as wit.  Selection of fresh material and allotment of space will be primary concerns.

The pervading themes here will be the topics covered in my books, and others, as the opportunity arises.

And as we relate our stories, we relate ourselves:  de nobis fabula narratur.  

Thank you, patient reader.