Man, once awakened to a will to create, wants to bypass the limits of the circles of necessity and master the power residing in Fire. ~ Corpus Hermeticum In Chapter 12 of The Hermetic Tradition, Julius Evola interprets the statement in the Zohar: The visible is the reflection of the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Julius Evola
The Glory of God
“The essential American soul is hard, stoic, isolate, and a killer. It has never yet melted”. – DH Lawrence If it is true that the “Great Divide” was the Middle Ages, it might be worthwhile examining to what extent they remain with us, and how we might recover such. Ordinarily, … Continue reading
The Great Divide and our Ownmost
In The Hermetic Tradition, Julius Evola mentions two competing views of history: History is the continuous upward evolution of collective humanity. Civilizations arise, mature and die in a series of epochs and disconnected cycles. The first, he rejects out of hand. The second has some merit yet is inadequate. When … Continue reading
Julius Evola on Esoteric Catholicism
Today with difficulty, if not exceptionally in some close to dangerous existential crises, the potentiality of Christianity at its beginnings as that “tragic doctrine of salvation” can be re-actualized. The problem is not set and we even say without reticence that if anyone who has known, for some time, nothing … Continue reading
The Religious Attitude
He faces up to reality, without veils, in its tragic, irrational, unprovidential nature. Continue reading
Against the Neopagans
On the Internet, there is an essay, attributed to Julius Evola, going by the title of “Against the Neopagans.” Since it has been so widely disseminated, it is impossible to know its source or the motivation behind it. In fact, it is the translation into English from the German translation … Continue reading
Metaphysics of Freedom
Conscience is neither a product nor a function of character. It is above it and it is only here where the domain of freedom is found. One is free … when one judges and acts according to Justice or conscience. Continue reading
Human, All Too Human
Tradition cannot be understood from the human, all-too-human, perspective. One criticism was based on something called “owness”, as though we pick and choose our gods on the basis of their suitability to our human condition, instead of rising above and seeing our human condition sub specie eternitatis. A second criticism … Continue reading
Forgotten Tradition
There seems to be much misunderstanding of Evola’s moral position. As he claims, he is drawing on doctrines [which] are in truth of a fundamental value, currently almost forgotten, that placed evil in matter. Apparently contemporary readers really have forgotten them, even those who falsely believe themselves to be relying … Continue reading
Knowledge and Power
The fundamental being and expression [of Consciousness or the I] is Joy pulsating as Will-Power and manifesting Itself in an unspeakably sublime cosmic play. It is not a mere abstraction — a wilderness of Pure Being or Pure Nothing as some critics of Vedanta have imagined the abode of Reality … Continue reading