Traditionalism

Traditionalism as defined in these pages is a belief in transcendent truth, plus an allegiance to one’s own culture as a particular, historical embodiment of that truth. I’ve just recalled that many years ago, long before I had encountered or articulated this traditionalist idea as such, I had said to myself that I believed in two things: God and civilization. Meaning God above us, and the humanly created realm in which man seeks to express the truth of God and of man made in God’s image. Long before I consciously called myself a traditionalist, I was already thinking in traditionalist terms.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 12, 2006 03:05 PM | Send