It’s interesting that the title of Evola’s work is almost a prescriptive piece of advice, or a command -“Revolt!”, & that he advocates here a proper understanding of what a revolt would look like if it were legitimate: this is how a kshatriya would act to maintain purity as he … Continue reading
Category Archives: Tradition
Esoteric Platonism
God bears in the intelligible world to reason and its objects the same relation which the sun bears in the visible world to sight and its objects. ~ Plato, Republic Continue reading
The Demetrian Race
The other “spiritual races” of the cycle, to which our contemporaries belong, have as their premise a division and a separation of the two elements of “spirituality” and “virility”, and also “transcendence” and “humanity”, that are synthetically united in the solar race. First of all, we point to the lunar … Continue reading
Esoteric Stoicism
Love becomes the highest goal, even higher than apatheia. Love, in this sense, is more than worldly friendship or family affection; it is a spiritual love. The overcoming of negative emotions, the state of apatheia, is preparation for this higher stage. Continue reading
Community and Society
As I was working on a post, three items came to my attention for review. Since they touch on similar topics, I’ll weave traditional notions as part of the review. These are: From the German Conservative Revolution to the New Right (200 pages, softcover), by Lucian Tudor. The book deals … Continue reading
The Metaphysical Principles of the Infintesimal Calculus
As someone who awoke rather late to the importance of mathematics (whose general use for the esoteric student is not only helpful, but even necessary), I decided to read my first full Rene Guenon treatise. The fundamental distinction which he makes is between the Indefinite and the Infinite. Since Wilhelm … Continue reading
The Notion of an Elite
Due to the nature of blog posts, you may feel like someone watching a movie starting from the middle. Nevertheless, there is an architectonic plan as summarized: Thesis: Tradition is the normal state for human spiritual well-being. Hypothesis: The Western world is in crisis due to its forgetting of Tradition. … Continue reading
Vanilla Tradition
Living Dangerously There are two directions for future developments of Tradition, based on how seriously one takes Guenon’s view of the modern world. Specifically, he regarded it as an “illusion”, i.e., totally false, and it would dissipate as soon as the illusion evaporated. That means he opposed its very foundations, … Continue reading
The Esoteric Path
It would be better to be able to take as its basis a Western organization already enjoying an effective existence. It seems quite clear that there is now but one organization in the West that is of a traditional character and that has preserved a doctrine that could serve as an appropriate basis for the work in question. Continue reading
The Exoteric Path
If our contemporaries as a whole could see what it is that is guiding them and where they are really going, the modern world would at once cease to exist as such. Continue reading