Don't immanentize the eschaton!

- Eric Voegelin

The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, theref…

- Eric Voegelin

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

- Eric Voegelin

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

- Eric Voegelin

The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostas…

- Eric Voegelin

Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-in…

- Eric Voegelin

The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philos…

- Eric Voegelin

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

- Eric Voegelin

Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires domini…

- Eric Voegelin