According to Anthony, only the rational man is in union with God, and reason is not at all common to all men. Continue reading
Category Archives: Julius Evola
Spanish Falangism
As spiritual reality, the state is organic and results from “cells”: the family, the local community, and common business and professional associations. It is hierarchical and opposes any class conflict. Continue reading
Stages of Initiation
Louis Claude de Saint-Martin separated men into four categories. Man of Torrent The Man of Torrent is caught up in the world process. He accepts things as they appear. He identifies with his thoughts, feelings, likes, dislikes, and desires. However, since they are so variable, he lacks a stable identity, … Continue reading
The Light of the Imperium
Europe is haunted by the shadow of the Emperor. One senses his absence just as vividly as in former times one sensed his presence. Because the emptiness of the wound speaks, what we miss knows how to make us sense it. Continue reading
The French Hermetic Tradition
Valentin Tomberg explains why he wrote his meditations on the major arcana of the Tarot in French: These letters were written in French, which is not the mother tongue of the author, because it is in France, and in France only, that a living literature on the Tarot has been … Continue reading
Social Facts and Group Control
Far from exhausting itself in a naturalism — as today only the ignorance or the tendentious falsification of some people are able to present it — beyond knowing the ideals of virile overcoming and of absolute liberation, in the pagan conception, the world was a living body, suffused with secret, divine and demonic forces, with meanings and with symbols. Continue reading
Prisoner of the System
A person an individual who is differentiated through his qualities, endowed with his own face, his proper nature, and a series of attributes that make him who he is … that make him fundamentally unequal. Continue reading
Everything else is a Pastime
The next question is “who desires, initiates and brings about the change.” If the world is phenomenon, then the “who” must be outside phenomenon, that is, noumenal, not a “thing”. The “who” is the constant in every act of consciousness, which is in perpetual flux. As such, it is not part of the world, but rather the silent observer of all that is. This is unobservable to scientists, who must necessarily deal with phenomenon. For the philosopher, it can only be an issue for debate, ultimately unresolvable. But for the metaphysician — and this is what distinguishes him from the philosopher — it as a definite and knowable state. In Tradition, this state has been called, inter alia, the Unmoved Mover, the Observer, True Will, or Atman. Continue reading
The Demon of Dialectics
The premise from which the Buddhist Doctrine of Awakening starts is the destruction of the demon of dialectics; the renunciation of the various constructions of thought and speculation which are simply an expression of opinion, and of the profusion of theories, which are projections of a fundamental restlessness in which … Continue reading