This is third section of an article by Guido de Giorgio, titled The Instant and Eternity, first published in Diorama Filosofico in 1939. I am constantly struck by so many people today who only perceive darkness, ignorance, or intolerance in the past. They tell me about dictators oppressively their people, … Continue reading
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The Past as Death and Life
This is the second section of Guido de Giorgio‘s essay The Instant and Eternity. Here de Giorgio compares modern and traditional man. He brings in many themes previously covered here: the continuity of the past; the notion of depth in the flow of history, i.e., “subterranean history”; the past understood … Continue reading
The Myth of the Future
This is part of an article by Guido de Giorgio, titled The Instant and Eternity, first published in Diorama Filosofico in 1939. We can say that the sacred is distinguished from the profane in what is essentially oriented toward the past to fix the stages of a procession which necessarily … Continue reading
Guenon on the Young Evola
Although Evola translated and promoted Guenon’s works in Italy, Guenon had some reservations about Evola’s approach. Unfortunately, because of that association, certain political views have been attributed to Guenon that he never personally held. Continue reading
Deification of Man
In Guido de Giorgio, we often find the best from Rene Guenon and Julius Evola. Yet, the “personal equation” is qualitatively different. Guenon is cold and logical, the path of the jnani whose goal is the Truth. Evola sometimes writes with a deep passion, but is often wordy; his is … Continue reading
Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition (4)
The purely exterior literary merits that common men [volgo], the profanum vulgus [unholy rabble], admire in Dante have no importance and would nullify the value of the Comedy in the very eyes of Dante and of those who can and know how to understand the purpose for which the poem … Continue reading
Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition (3)
It is not easy to express this succession and fusion that must not be considered historically but on a plane where the symbolic values remain such even if unknown or misunderstood until a new light suddenly illuminates them and reveals them. For the two traditions which we discussing, Rome is … Continue reading
Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition (2)
If Virgil represents the ancient tradition and Beatrice the new tradition and if, at the threshold of the Terrestrial Paradise, Virgil disappears before Beatrice, Beatrice also disappears when the divine mystery is grasped by Dante in its immediate realization and what then remains, above and beyond the two traditions unified … Continue reading
Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition
From La Tradizione Romana by Guido De Giorgio. The traditional gold vein of Rome in the living unity of the two forms supplementing each other in a perfect match and equilibrium, is found again in all its wholeness in Dante who was the first to reveal the mystery of Romanity. … Continue reading
Holy Rome, Eternal Rome
Before translating Evola’s review of a book by Maurras, we plan to provide a chapter from Guido de Giorgio’s La Tradizione Romana (The Roman Tradition) called “Dante and the Holy Culmination of the Roman Tradition.” De Giorgio is most certainly the only man to have collaborated with both Rene Guenon … Continue reading