This essay originally appeared in the Introduction to Magic, volume 3. This is the first of multiple parts. It was published under the name “Avro”, which I believe to be Julius Evola. Part 2 ⇒ The reader will not fail to notice that in one particular point among others, the … Continue reading
The Arrow and the Rose
Reghini points to several other Hermetic symbols found in Dante and other writings of the Fedeli d’Amore. These include the Arrow, the Rose, the Rebis, the Azoth, and the Phoenix. Finally, he mentions the significance of the analogical or spiritual meaning of such texts, which simply cannot be understood by those not prepared for it. Continue reading
The Cross and the Eagle
Love in the initiatic sense has therefore the capacity to take away the dream and death, giving to the Fedel d’Amore a new life. That is reached through degrees of successive development. Continue reading
Review of the Meaning of History
Man, in order to feel himself free and individual, will overcome isolation and egoism, and will return to an organic, living, religious connection with the totality, realizing the mystical meaning of history as the reciprocal self-revelation and self-generation of man to God. Continue reading
Plotinus: The Peak of Pagan Wisdom (II)
“There is no God who fights for those who are not in arms.” This is the cornerstone of every warrior morality; and it carries back to the concepts explained above about the identification—from the metaphysical point of view—of “reality”, “spirituality”, and “virtue”. The cowardly cannot be good, “good” implies a soul of a hero. Continue reading
Plotinus: The Peak of Pagan Wisdom
BE, ENDURE, become a CENTER. Through “ascesis”, through “purification”, through what Plotinus himself will now make explicit. You have heard of “solar way”. This is its secret. Separated from those with disordered need, yearning soul, and confused look — more ‘non-being’ than ‘being’ — they are attracted to the invisible worlds. Continue reading
Death and Deliverance
Dying before dying prepares us for death, feeling oneself a cadaver before becoming one, separating before detachment, sanctifying the corpse, purifying it, making it the marble temple of the Living God. The sanctification of the body is the sanctification of life and the sanctification of the soul that only the Holy calls Holy, i.e., God in us. The divine integration, the knowledge that God alone thinks, feels, and works in us, is the most certain means to attain freedom and serenity at the transition. Continue reading
Death
For the greater part of men, death is a leap, a fearful leap into a bottomless abyss, a laceration, a shout, a falling without knowing how or where one falls, the tragic epilog of a sterile life, and a life without a reason. ~ Guido De Giorgio Continue reading
The Establishment of a Traditional Society: Priests
Part II ⇒ In La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition], Guido De Giorgio dedicates a section to the question of the reestablishment of a traditional society. It includes four chapters: The Priests, The Warriors, The Workers, and The King. This is the first part of the chapter on the priests. … Continue reading
The Defeat and the Future of France (II)
This is Part II of the essay by Julius Evola that was published as “La disfatta e il futuro dell Francia secondo l’Action Française” in La Vita Italiana, in April 1942. This piece is of historical interest since the issues in 1941 are still in play in 2013. We also … Continue reading