The I is the Supreme, except it does not know it. The apparitions of a dazzling and unbearable light strike the soul immediately after the separation from the body, with the experience of the real nature of the soul itself. Continue reading
Category Archives: Julius Evola
The Western Tradition Reviewed
In which we review some prior posts on the western tradition and demonstrate the inner continuity from the Vedics through the Greeks to the Medievals. We also articulate the essence of idealism and the nature of the priest. We have several times pointed to the three great Indo-European civilizations: the … Continue reading
Absolute Man, Absolute Woman
A man approaches to this Ideal not by eliminating the feminine principle but rather by uniting with it in the Spiritual Marriage. Continue reading
The Priest and the King
There is nothing that can be truly and well done or made except by the man in whom the marriage of the Sacerdotium and the Regnum has been consummated, nor can any peace be made except by those who have made their peace with themselves. ~ Ananda Coomaraswamy In 1942, … Continue reading
The Defeat and the Future of France (II)
This is Part II of the essay by Julius Evola that was published as “La disfatta e il futuro dell Francia secondo l’Action Française” in La Vita Italiana, in April 1942. This piece is of historical interest since the issues in 1941 are still in play in 2013. We also … Continue reading
Initiatic Centers and History (Tibet)
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
Initiatic Centers and History (I)
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
Evola and Nietzsche – 40 years later
Transcending oneself: this is the great imperative of the human condition; and there is another that anticipates it and at the same time prolongs it: dominating oneself. The noble man is the one who dominates himself; the holy man is the one who transcends himself. ~ Frithjof Schuon In writing … Continue reading
Nietzsche for Today
to see whether one finds in oneself that natural disgust for vulgarity and for every base interest, that will for a voluntary, clear discipline, that ability to freely establish “values” and to achieve them without giving up whatever the cost, those values that define the Overcomer, the man not broken among so many things that are broken today. Continue reading
The Mystery of Sleep
Sleep is not the mystery because it is the normal state of nature. The real mystery is awakening. Continue reading