This essay originally appeared in the Introduction to Magic, volume 3. This is the second of multiple parts. It was published under the name “Avro”, which I believe to be Julius Evola. ⇐ Part 1 Part 3 ⇒ Moving from primitive man to the anthropoid and the ape, and presuming the … Continue reading
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The Esoteric Origin of the Species
This essay originally appeared in the Introduction to Magic, volume 3. This is the first of multiple parts. It was published under the name “Avro”, which I believe to be Julius Evola. Part 2 ⇒ The reader will not fail to notice that in one particular point among others, the … Continue reading
The Fire of Creation
Today we are truly at the dawn of the coming of the third person in the dialectic of the divine; the direction of creative activity in motion, of the universe in which dynamis or power is the fundamental note, and the immanent presence of the “cosmic Fire” is characteristic of this. Continue reading
Review of the Meaning of History
Man, in order to feel himself free and individual, will overcome isolation and egoism, and will return to an organic, living, religious connection with the totality, realizing the mystical meaning of history as the reciprocal self-revelation and self-generation of man to God. Continue reading
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
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
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