⇐ Part I Part III ⇒ This is second part of the chapter on the Workers from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition] by Guido De Giorgio. Here he describes the nature of work and art, and their relation to the divine. I have translated the root lavor- as labor … Continue reading
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The Establishment of a Traditional Society: Workers
Part II ⇒ This is the first part of the chapter on the workers from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition] by Guido De Giorgio. In this part, De Giorgio reviews the metaphysical foundations of the notion of castes and prepares the groundwork for the discussion of the specific functions … Continue reading
The Meaning and Function of Monarchy (4)
This is the final installment of the essay by Julius Evola that was published under the title Significato e funzione della monarchia. This section concludes Part II of the original essay. ⇐ Segment 3 Now, a similar turning point obviously presupposes the retention, the perpetuation, of the state of class … Continue reading
Gleanings about the Field of Pearls
I have been reading The Way of a Pilgrim, recently, which is a Russian peasant’s account of his discovery of the prayer of the heart. The anonymous author had lost his father and wife to an illness, and been dispossessed by a worthless brother, who had also crippled him when … Continue reading
The Opposite of a Fact
After the passage of a sufficient interval of time, I have taken it upon myself to address some issues that brought unwanted attention to this blog. Specifically, it involves the unexamined assumption that there is a sort of natural affinity between the tenets of Tradition and various identitarian movements, which … Continue reading
A Higher Imagination
Typically, as Mihai has pointed out, the imagination functions to degrade man. It offers him pornography, violence, and all other species of lust: a 24/7 cinema strip of running images. If it’s not doing this, it’s running narcissistic movie clips of nonstop happy endings for the engrossed slave, who lives … Continue reading
The Alma Dancer
Alma Dancer Woman is not a “thing”, but an animal, which is worse: she is becoming a marionette, since that is what man liked. The aversion for woman, with that sacred fixation of “value”, is a modern obsession that proves the weakness of European man as ascetic and as warrior. … Continue reading
Yangming’s Doctrine of Awakening
It was pointed out in a discussion here that Valentin Tomberg wrote the following on “exteriorization”, summarizing the respective attitudes of Buddha and Christ to the vision of a damaged world: The Buddha saw the true nature of the world and that it was sick. Considering it incurable he instituted … Continue reading
Ascesis and Anti-Europe
This is authored by Havismat (Guido De Giorgio), from Volume 2 of Introduction to Magic. We see more of the paradoxical style of his writing. He reveals some personal details about his time in Tunisia and his experience with Sufis. See Short Note on Woman in East and West for … Continue reading