In spite of everything that I know of Evola, especially from you, I was a little surprised by his refusal to use your article [for Ur]. I ask myself, under these conditions, why he is so insistent that I send him something, because he must certainly think what I would write would also be totally traditional, and consequently, would not satisfy him at all. Continue reading
⇐ Point 11 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 … Continue reading
Cologero got word from his doctor this week that he is working too hard, adversely affecting his health. He needs some “alone” time and I believe he is considering a private retreat; when or for how long, he didn’t say. He did leave me a few posts for the coming … Continue reading
We have reached the end of our research into the document found in the Ante Nicene Father collection, known as the Clement Journal. It is impossible to sum up so many posts in detail, but one thing is clear — the early Christian religion, as given by Peter to Clement … Continue reading
the use of symbols comparable to Hermetic symbols is also totally general, and these symbols are not opposed at all to natural symbols, but, on the contrary, they are connected very normally. Furthermore, the symbolic character of all manifestation permits us to give to historic facts, as well as to all the rest, a value completely different from what they have in themselves. Continue reading
⇐ Point 10 Conclusion ⇒ In the final point, Julius Evola addresses the question of spirituality. He first considers Catholicism, the last Tradition in the West, but rejects it as inadequate in our time because the Church no longer represents that Tradition. If, instead, had it maintained that Tradition, had it … Continue reading
For Adam, the Self is dead, represented by the rib since the bones are the last to decay. That rib is vivified by Eve, who appears therefore as the exteriorization of his own Self. She is almost his identical twin, genetically the same apart from her having two X chromosomes, his “reciprocal”. Hence, she is the perfect woman for him. In knowing Eve, Adam is knowing himself. Continue reading
I saw the surprising hit movie 2016: Obama’s America this past weekend and am still unsure what its point is. It is the brainchild of the Anglo-Indian Dinesh D’Souza First of all, it was certainly a well-produced and researched documentary; as such, it is a model of what can—and should—be … Continue reading
I was thinking, and am still thinking (since I am at the point of having finished what I had attempted to do in the West) of going to India to stay there. One of my correspondents convinced me that it would not be worth the trouble, unless I go to Kashmir or Tibet and I have a way to introduce myself into some of the rarest centers that still conserve the Tradition but are excessively suspicious of any foreigners. Continue reading
