Political power, spiritual authority, divine law, sin, divination, totalitarianism and freedom in Ancient Rome. In the order of the structural element, there is a specific element in the “civilization” of Rome, i.e., a hierarchy, in which the preeminence is reserved to political values: everything is assumed and organized in the … Continue reading
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The Spirit of Roman Civilization (II)
It is a unitary and organic construction which, by being such, even permeates the political field, i.e., it also presupposes a political organization as the realizer and promoter of the fundamental values resting on the base of the organization itself. And in this special point, we see the contrast between … Continue reading
The Spirit of Roman Civilization
With this article from the December 1940 issue of La Vita Italiana, Evola takes up the idea of Romanity, and its continuity beyond the Roman Empire itself. While different from the mystical vision of Guido de Giorgio, based on Dante, it is equally spiritual. Following a conception of Spengler, the … Continue reading
The Mystery of Birth
Two heredities meet and join each other in every being, the one terrestrial and historical, positively detectable to a great degree [i.e., known to science], the other spiritual and otherworldly. Continue reading
The Hidden History of Rome (6)
Some may say that we are exaggerating: but it is difficult for Cesaro’s friend [Evola himself] to demonstrate here that Cesaro’s premises, i.e., those of Steiner, rigorously thought out, are sufficient to lead to so much. We don’t want to be considered tendentious and therefore we will emphasize that in … Continue reading
The Hidden History of Rome (5)
In fact, we see Christianity becoming Roman with Catholicism: purifying itself of its original anarchic, universalist, and humanitarian aspects, and giving rise, in the Middle Ages, to a civilization that is characteristic of the type we articulated: hierarchical, tied to traditions of caste and blood, interspersed with initiatic elements Continue reading
The Hidden History of Rome (4)
Now at this point, those issues must be raised, that spiritually—our friend Duke di Cesaro will permit us to be sincere—have a subversive character. We said that in such a placement the very meaning of the opposition between the Olympian and telluric elements remains distorted, since Olympian spirituality is not … Continue reading
The Hidden History of Rome (3)
This is certainly not the place to discuss Steiner and to make precise the importance of his doctrine—on that, we have already written in one of our works, Maschea e volto dello spiritualismo contemporaneo [Mask and Face of Contemporary Spirituality]. Here, instead, only the highlights can be mentioned, which are … Continue reading
The Hidden History of Rome (2)
The more or less obscure intuitive perception, translated into images provided by a particular attractive force of such a mystery, is the true essence of the legends of the origins. Therefore, Cesaro continues: Legend and history are strictly connected; the former proceeds through interiorization and is deployed by means of … Continue reading