In recent times there can be found a significant impulse to return to origins. The origins which appear under a special, spiritual light. Continue reading
Category Archives: Julius Evola
The Spirit of Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre was an Hermetist (in the school of Martines de Pasqually and Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin), Traditionalist, Reactionary, European, and a source of the Russian Idea. In his Self-Defense, Julius Evola includes Maistre among those well-bred men holding sane and normal views common prior to the French Revolution. In … Continue reading
The Order of the Iron Crown
The Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne used the Crown at his coronation ceremony in Lombardy Continue reading
Vincit omnia Veritas
Those who will be successful in overcoming all these obstacles and in triumphing over the hostility of an environment opposed to all spirituality will doubtless be few in number. Confusion, error and darkness can enjoy no more than a specious and purely ephemeral triumph. Continue reading
On Lacking Credentials
You know when the living thought of a writer becomes fossilized when it turns into text for use by academics, particularly those who find it necessary to boast about their credentials before speaking. I would like to remind visitors that Evola refused to accept a degree in engineering, because he … Continue reading
Genius and the Real Man
Every Real Man has realized all the possibilities of the human condition, but each one has done so in a way which is typical of him alone, and which differentiates him from all other Real Men. If that were not the case, how could there be room, in our world, even for beings who have not achieved that level? Continue reading
Buddhism and Tradition
Mahayana absolutism and the Advaita Vedanta are valuable as providing the basis on which a world-culture can be built. It is only absolutism that can make for the fundamental unity of existence and at the same time allow for differences. Continue reading
Are You a Counterrevolutionary?
What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. ~ Joseph de Maistre My principles are only those that prior to the French revolution, every well born person considered healthy and normal. ~ Julius Evola At a time when the right is … Continue reading