From everything that has been reported by travelers and observers worthy of credence, beginning with Alexandra David-Neel, similar phenomena was verified in Tibet, however not as phenomena of an extrasensory and unconscious character, but rather as consciously controlled and willed phenomena, made possible by discipline and initiations. Continue reading
This essay is chapter 17 of L’Arco and la Clava by Julius Evola. It will be published in two parts; the first part deals with general considerations and the second with Tibet. There are several things to ponder. For example, what is the “symbolic dimension” to consider, and how is … Continue reading
The following essay by Julius Evola was published as “La disfatta e il futuro dell Francia secondo l’Action Française” in La Vita Italiana, in April 1942. Due to its length, it will be posted in two installments. This essay may be of historical interest to some, since, given that history … Continue reading
Recently several of Gustav Meyrink’s books were republished: The White Dominican, Walpurgis Night, The Angel of the West Window, after the publisher Bompiani had already published a new translation of the Golem, a book that had in its time a great success in Germany and from which a film was … Continue reading
⇐ Point 11 With this paragraph, Julius Evola concludes his Orientations. Note that he asks the next generation to take up the torch, but not necessarily to repeat exactly the past. Lessons must be learned and Tradition expressed perhaps in new terms. Fighting old battles may not be helpful in … Continue reading
⇐ Point 10 Conclusion ⇒ In the final point, Julius Evola addresses the question of spirituality. He first considers Catholicism, the last Tradition in the West, but rejects it as inadequate in our time because the Church no longer represents that Tradition. If, instead, had it maintained that Tradition, had it … Continue reading
⇐ Point 9 Point 11 ⇒ Julius Evola points out the three possible reactions to the modern world, which he regards as fundamentally “bourgeois”. We may dispute that today in that proletarian values seem to predominate in our time. Oppose the bourgeoisie with a “collectivized and materialized humanity,” to which we … Continue reading
← Point 8 Point 10 → In Point 9, Julius Evola rejects the “solutions” offered by the modern world. First of all, it is not simply a matter of preserving a certain “culture”, which is the superficial, but rather of developing an entire “worldview”, in the heart of man’s being, from … Continue reading
Many people would like to adopt a sentimental and, at the same time, naturalistic conception of the nation, notions foreign to the highest European political traditions and irreconcilable with the same idea of the State which we spoke about. Continue reading
⇐ Point 6 Point 8 ⇒ Highlights of point 7: The ideal is a virile and organic political unity This unity is fundamentally a spiritual unity The dignity and freedom of the human person is found in an organic society, not in individualized liberalism Evola rejected the Salo Republic because it … Continue reading