With this paragraph, Julius Evola concludes his Orientations. Note that he asks the next generation to take up the torch, but not necessarily to repeat exactly the past. Lessons must be learned and Tradition expressed perhaps in new terms. Fighting old battles may not be helpful in the present battles.
Note that Evola, the “man of action”, insists on intellectual rigour and intransigence with respect to the ideas of Tradition. Those who hold firm to those ideas will be united. This unity cannot be achieved on the basis of some contingent political position; certainly not with those who deviate from such ideals while claiming to be “traditionalists”. Those who keep their minds focused on the ideals of Tradition will never be overcome by the enemy. They remain firm in the conviction that “what can be done, will be done.”
As a side note, please note the reference to “illusory order”. This distinction will be important in the discussion of the Logos.
These are some essential orientations for the battle to be fought, especially in respect to the youth, who take up the torch and the baton from those who have not fallen, learning from the errors of the past, knowing how to discriminate and review everything that was affected, and still today is affected, by contingent situations. It is essential not to descend to the level of the adversaries, not to be reduced to repeating the same mantras, not to insist unduly on those of yesterday which, even if worthy of being remembered, do not have the impersonal and current value of an idea-force, not to yield to the suggestions of false politicizing realism, the mark of every “party”. It is necessary for our forces to act also in political hand-to-hand combat in order to create all the possible space in the current situation, and to contain the assault, otherwise almost uncontested, of the forces of the left. But beyond that it is important, it is essential that an elite constitute itself which, in a gathering intensity, identified by an intellectual rigour and an absolute intransigence, depending on the idea that must be united and affirmed above all in the form of the new man, of the man of the resistance, of the man standing up among the ruins. If the task will be to go beyond this period of crisis and vacillating and illusory order, the future will be up to this man. But when also the destiny — that the modern world created for itself and is now sweeping away — should not be restrained, beside such remarks the interior positions will be preserved: in whatever eventuality, what can be done will be done and we will belong to that country which will never be occupied or destroyed by any enemy.
There is an entire class of mythology, of which the trials of Heracles are a part, that tell the story of the “herculean” efforts it took to subjugate feminine nature to the order of Heaven. It was a sustained effort. What we have today is several generations that have given up on that civilizing project.
Yes, Evola did address that point to the tune of, “the problem with women is that men have let them deviate in line with their natural tendencies”.
Audrey is correct and that point deserves more discussion.
I have always thought a return to Sol Invictus is the only real option in a world that depends so much on the empirical. Manifestation is the living symbol of the principles from which phenomena precipitate. Emulation of the natural world’s relation to the sun would produce a religion and society perfect on every level of realization.
You know, I would agree 99%. The missing percent being a caveat on the female gender.. Every female in the beginning of her sexual life is at the mercy of a good partner who will assist her to grow up. It rarely happens and predatorial female cougars abound.. not to mention gurus. Society would be less to the left if sexual perversity did not abound.. Yet males need to be held accountable and they never are. More often than not they like to play Lambs of God as if it is all the women’s fault. I believe that Evola addressed that as well.