He faces up to reality, without veils, in its tragic, irrational, unprovidential nature. Continue reading
On the Internet, there is an essay, attributed to Julius Evola, going by the title of “Against the Neopagans.” Since it has been so widely disseminated, it is impossible to know its source or the motivation behind it. In fact, it is the translation into English from the German translation … Continue reading
Conscience is neither a product nor a function of character. It is above it and it is only here where the domain of freedom is found. One is free … when one judges and acts according to Justice or conscience. Continue reading
The only reality is Consciousness, a position for which we may argue but which cannot be established with certitude except by an actual or direct experience of unity. Those who seek to establish supersensible truths on any other ground must fail; just as those who argue against the validity of the individual’s experience must fail. Continue reading
Tradition cannot be understood from the human, all-too-human, perspective. One criticism was based on something called “owness”, as though we pick and choose our gods on the basis of their suitability to our human condition, instead of rising above and seeing our human condition sub specie eternitatis. A second criticism … Continue reading
There seems to be much misunderstanding of Evola’s moral position. As he claims, he is drawing on doctrines [which] are in truth of a fundamental value, currently almost forgotten, that placed evil in matter. Apparently contemporary readers really have forgotten them, even those who falsely believe themselves to be relying … Continue reading
The fundamental being and expression [of Consciousness or the I] is Joy pulsating as Will-Power and manifesting Itself in an unspeakably sublime cosmic play. It is not a mere abstraction — a wilderness of Pure Being or Pure Nothing as some critics of Vedanta have imagined the abode of Reality … Continue reading
In esoteric cosmologies, in the transition from essence to existence, the being passes through a series of influences, from the subtle to the dense. Continue reading
In the November 1940 issue of La Vita Italiana, Julius Evola, writing under the pseudonym “Arthos”, addressed the ancient concept of race in the article “Sulle origini e sul doppio volto del razzismo”. We here are interested in the Emperor Julian, known as the Apostate. In this article, Evola aligns … Continue reading
The universe exists for each Individual because he consciously wills it. ~John Woodroffe, Sakti and Sakta After concluding the discussion of privation, Julius Evola next turns to the concepts of Essence and Existence. This can be understood as the philosophical analog of the concepts of Purusha and Prakriti. There are … Continue reading