Originally published in November, 2005 for a private seminar studying non-dual writings. The race of the spirit predominant in a person, in a people, in a community, is given by the orienting characteristic assumed toward the sacred and the divine, life and death, destiny, the world. Noi possediamo una verità, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Metaphysics
Ontotheology

The metaphysician understands experience as a seamless, indefinable, alogical continuum, so it is grasped as a whole, beyond time and space. Continue reading →
Spiritual Beings

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 →
Builder of Worlds

We will fiercely combat all intellectual and philosophic rhetoric whereby man restrains himself to talk about his impotency rather than to finally jump to his feet, to grasp himself and, burning up his impotency, to make himself what he is in himself. Continue reading →
The Creative Power of the Individual

The individual gives meaning and purpose to the world. Continue reading →
The Cosmic Value of Human Action

magical idealism reveals the cosmic value to human action. For the realist, everything already is, so that activity is little more than rearranging the furniture. Opposed to this view, action is heroic. The True Man creates being, where previously there had only been non-being or privation. Continue reading →
Guenonian Scholasticism
Julius Evola was among the first writers to take up the ideas of Rene Guenon, and maintained an epistolary relationship with him until the end of Guenon’s life. Yet, although Evola wrote a long article in La Vita Italiana, titled “Rene Guenon: A Master for our Times”, in praise of … Continue reading →
True Will and Spontaneity
If everything is the result of the I, the obvious question is, “Why am I not always aware of creating the world?” To address this question, Julius Evola makes the distinction between spontaneity and Will, which he first brought up in the discussion of the three stages. By spontaneity, he … Continue reading →
Privation
Evola consolidates the understanding gained by the man at stage three with a discussion of the topic “privation”. In Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, “privation” is the absence of a given form in something capable of possessing it. As it is a lack, it has no being in itself, yet it … Continue reading →
Providence, Will, Destiny
In The Great Triad, Rene Guenon deals with the relationship between Providence, Will, and Destiny. Here he relies on the work of Fabre d’Olivet, which is based on Pythagoreanism and Chinese metaphysics. This triad is related to the “Great Triad” of Heaven, Man, Earth. D’Olivet writes: That universal Man is … Continue reading →