Evola Viewed from the Right: Three political principles

Posted on 2013-12-08 by Cologero

This is part VII of an ongoing review of Julius Evola‘s Fascism viewed from the right, published by Arktos Media. Fascism, as the conscious agent of the state, next had to confront the parliamentary system that it had inherited. Evola put it this way (in Chapter VIII): The parliamentary system … Continue reading →

The German New Thought Movement: Exercises

Posted on 2013-12-06 by Aeneas

It is all rather well constructed in suggestive and intensely charged emotions in order to lead to a state of mystical exhilaration, not without certain character of virility. Continue reading →

The German New Thought Movement

Posted on 2013-12-04 by Aeneas

The inner journey given is divided into four major phases.: Concentration, Meditation, Contemplation, Self-Realization. Continue reading →

The Glass Bead Game

Posted on 2013-12-01 by Cologero

The individuality descends consciously and of his own free will to birth, into an environment where he is wanted and awaited … Incarnation-birth presupposes conscious agreement between the will of the individuality above and the receiving will below. Continue reading →

Call Down the Sun – Hercules X

Posted on 2013-11-29 by Logres

Now things are getting more interesting, in even a conventional sense. Hercules sets out upon his tenth labor. Up until now, we have issued many cautions about ascribing to the hero anything in a merely or even a primarily external sense. But when the hero calls down the power of … Continue reading →

Restoration, Revival, Renaissance

Posted on 2013-11-23 by Logres

The order of these nouns is deliberate. Secular humanists desire to have the last without either of the first two, particularly and most insistently, the first. Christians are generally unconcerned or even aware of the first, & if it is brought to their attention, they become truculent. The third also … Continue reading →

New Thought and Tradition

Posted on 2013-11-18 by Cologero

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better ~ Emile Coué Before providing translations of Julius Evola’s essays on the New Thought movement in Europe and the ideas of Emile Coué, I want to offer some personal observations. I will also supplement Evola’s material with the comparable … Continue reading →

Hercules’ Ninth – The Girdle of Hippolyta

Posted on 2013-11-15 by Logres

Thucydides the Athenian notes that of pre-history, he is obliged to accept what the poets say, although certainly this is unsatisfactory, and the poets are not to be trusted. Since Thucydides was an Athenian, he presumably shared in the general blase attitude which they took towards the rites and rituals. … Continue reading →

The Purification of the Breath

Posted on 2013-11-15 by Cologero

The way of the spirit is such that it does not exist for those who do not want to follow the path. ~ Julius Evola This is the concluding section of Evola’s essay on the metaphysics of purity. Once again, he expresses Eastern doctrines not only in Western terms, but … Continue reading →

Purification of the Sex Act

Posted on 2013-11-13 by Aeneas

In this section, Evola offers his comments on the purification of the generative act. Drawing primarily on the tantric writings and German idealism (especially Fichte and Schelling), but also Clement of Alexandria and Plotinus, Evola equates the woman with nature. And nature is that which is still dark or impervious … Continue reading →

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Evola Viewed from the Right: Three political principles

The German New Thought Movement: Exercises

The German New Thought Movement

The Glass Bead Game

Call Down the Sun – Hercules X

Restoration, Revival, Renaissance

New Thought and Tradition

Hercules’ Ninth – The Girdle of Hippolyta

The Purification of the Breath

Purification of the Sex Act