One must live as one thinks, under pain of sooner or later thinking as one lives. ~ Paul Bourget
In The Individual and the becoming of the World, Evola describes certain spiritual “attitudes”, a concept that will be developed and expanded in his later works as “spiritual types” and then “races of the spirit”. The editors of Sintesi di dottrina della razza define it thus: “The ‘race of the spirit’ prevalent in a person, a people, a community is given by the characteristic orientation that is assumed toward the sacred and the divine, life and death, destiny, the world.”
We moderns, under the influence of universalism and egalitarianism, tend to underestimate the significances of spiritual types: Don’t we all laugh and cry? Don’t we bleed when pricked? These, and other such rhetorical questions, seek the unity of humanity in the lowest and most common features. In actuality, men of different spiritual types, which are far from arbitrary, represent quite different states of being. This is obvious when men of differing spiritual types attempt a conversation – their disparate fundamental orientations preclude a common understanding of anything above the most superficial topics.
This needs to be clarified. The lower man cannot understand the higher. However, as Weininger points out, the higher man can understand the lower since he encompasses more. Therefore, the man of spirit can see that the materialistic may be correct as far as it goes … he simply does not go far enough. However, the materialist can only regard the spiritual man as mistaken, if not deluded.
It is important to keep in mind that the spirit, as principle, is primary. Its characteristics are then manifested in the soul and the body. In the chapter “The Illusion of Ordinary Life” in The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Time, Guenon writes this:
The materialistic attitude, whether it be a question of explicit and formal materialism or of a simple “practical” materialism, necessarily imposed on the whole “psycho-physiological” constitution of the human being a real and very important modification. This is easily understood, and in fact it is only necessary to look around in order to conclude that modern man has become quite impermeable to any influences other than such as impinge on his senses; not only have his faculties of comprehension becomes more and more limited, but also the field of his perception has become correspondingly restricted. The result is a sort of reinforcement of the profane point of view, for this point of view was first born of a defect of comprehension, and thus of a limitation, and this limitation, as it becomes accentuated and extends to all domains, itself seems to justify the point of view, at least in the eyes of those who are affected by it. Indeed, what reason can they have thereafter for admitting the existence of something that they can neither perceive not conceive, that is to say of everything that could show them the insufficiency and the falsity of the profane point of view itself?
In Meditations on the Peaks, Evola is explicit:
All too often people forget that spirituality is essentially a way of life and that its measure does not consist of notions, theories, and ideals that have been stored in one’s head. Spirituality is actually what has been successfully actualized and translated into a sense of superiority which is experienced inside by the soul, and a noble demeanor, which is expressed in the body.
So in the second part of “The Individual”, Evola does not at all concern himself with notions, theories, and ideals. Rather, he is concerned about which spiritual attitudes lead to that inner sense of superiority and which fall short.
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“Who Are The Real Savages”?
Those who are of, and in, what is known as the “civilized” world once called, and some yet call, the “uneducated”, indigenous peoples “savages”.
Consider that the most dangerous “savage” is the one who wars against Light, Truth, Love, Peace, Hope, Simplicity, etc., all that is of The GREAT Spirit.
Such a “savage” seeks to kill the GOD conscious spirit within man and fill the void with a love for the things that are of this wicked world, a love for the self-life, and a love for the lies that are of this world’s systems of religion ;-(
And yes, “atheism”, “drugs”, “sexual perverseness”, “alcohol”, “greed”, etc. , all have “savages” who follow their religious ways ;-( Ways that lead mankind along the broad way of destruction and death ;-(
“atheism”, “drugs”, “sexual perversion”, “alcohol”, “greed”, “humanism”, .etc.
Not “religion” you say?
Sadly, they are. For one’s “god”, “supreme being”, “great spirit”, etc., is that which, what, or whom, someone serves. That which you serve, is that which you worship, and that which you worship is your “religion”.
Yes, even “atheists” have “religion” and worship their ‘god’, and no matter what it’s name may be, they “see” their “god” every time they look in a mirror.
Most all systems of religion are self-serving! Sadly, in the darkness that encompasses the religious ways of this world, hides the “god” of all “systems of religion”, he who is “the god of this world”, “the father of lies”, “d”evil author of death, destruction, damnation and every evil work.
And all who follow the way’s of death and destruction serve, and are held captive by, the spirit of death, as they but serve “time” in the prison that is this wicked, evil world.
And the primary tool used of the “god’s” in the “religious systems” that are of this world?
M-O-N-E-Y!
Oh, how they worship those colored marks written on a dead tree!
Capitalism is the primary buzzword used by those religious systems. And so it is that, that which was once called “covetousness(greed)” was then called “materialism” and today?
Sadly today, those of this world’s “religious systems” call “covetousness”, “good management”.
Question? Why is it that 100 years ago, in so-called “progressive societies”, the “citizens” of such societies had 10 needs and 100 wants, and today they have 100 needs? and 1000 wants?
And what of the so-called “progress” they have made?
They progressively destroy and pervert Creation(land, air, water, creatures, Light, Truth, Peace, Love, Hope, .etc.) and such destruction and perversion has multiplied exponentially as time passes by.
“Spiritual savages”, oh my, how they have increased!
Yet, while there is breath(spirit) there is hope!
For Miracles do happen!
Hope is there would be those who experience The Miracle that is receiving “a love of The Truth”!
“The Way” is Spirit, “The Truth” is Spirit, “The Life” is Spirit, all that is “Good” is Spirit!
And mankind can not systematize Spirit.
At best, mankind can only answer The Call of GOD, believe, receive and follow in obedience, seeking above all else “Father, not my will, But THY Will Be Done”.
Thankfully when GOD called Adam answered…….
Yet what of those who came after Adam?
How many have answered GOD’s Call?
And today, “Who will answer The Only True GOD’s Call”?
“Come out of her, MY people…….”
“Come out” of this world and it’s systems of religion.
James testified, “Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of Our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless(those who no longer have a teacher, example or guardian) and widows(they no longer have the headship of their husband) in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”
And all other “religion”?
Simply, impure and defiled ;-(
Systems of “religion” are of this world and are Anti-Messiah!
The so-called “savage”, indigenous people called The Hopi await the return of their “True White Brother” and as The Hopi believe, so it is that:
“A simple and spiritual life is the only life that will survive”!
A belief which is in perfect harmony with The Life example and Teachings of The Messiah.
And it is very important to realize that The Teachings of The Messiah were given Him by The Only True GOD, Father of ALL, for The Messiah testified, “The words that I speak are not My words, they are the words of The Father WHO sent Me”.
I have visited with The Hopi people and sadly, in this day and age, “progress” is overcoming them ;-( Through the prior years there were many who rejected, and spiritually fought against “progress”, and yet since the last of The Hopi elders who resisted “progress” passed away, “progress” has had it’s evil destructive, perverse ways with them ;-(
Yet, there is hope!
For Miracles do happen!
Hope is there would be those who experience The Miracle that is receiving “a love of The Truth” for they will no longer have their portion with those who are destroying and perverting Creation.
Peace, in spite of the dis-ease(progress) that is of this wicked world and it’s systems of religion, for “the WHOLE world is under the control of the evil one”(1John5:19) indeed and Truth.
And Truth is never ending…….