At the conclusion to the Meditation on the Arcanum of the Star, Valentin Tomberg makes the following appeal: In our time, therefore, it is a matter of the task of effecting the third step of the evolutionary spiral of the Hermetic tradition — the third “recovery” of the subject of … Continue reading
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Race of the Soul
there are many cases of people who are exactly of the same race of the body, of the same tribe, sometimes even, brothers or fathers and sons, of the same blood in the most real sense, but who nevertheless fail to understand each other. A barrier separates their souls, their … Continue reading
The Truth is far from Suspected
Be assured, savants of the world, it is not in disdaining the sacred books of nations that you show your knowledge, it is in explaining them. One cannot write a history without monuments and that of the world is no exception. These books are the veritable archives wherein its deeds … Continue reading
Fabre d’Olivet and the Myth of Blood
In the face of the chaos of modernity, the only salvation is form. ~ Julius Evola, motto to Il mito del sangue Julius Evola regarded his books Il mito del sangue (“The Myth of Blood”) and Sintesi di dottrina della razza as two parts of a single work. The first … Continue reading
Fabre d’Olivet on the Borean Race
An early review of two books by Fabre d’Olivet, translated into English, was published in New York Tribune, 7 Aug 1921. Besides his monumental hermeneutical study of the history of the Borean race, Fabre d’Olivet wrote an interpretation of the Golden Verses of Pythagoras. Born some 800 years after Akhnaton, … Continue reading
The End of the Golden Age
Two birds, inseparably united companions, dwell in the same tree; the one eats of the fruit of the tree, while the other looks on without eating.~ Mundaka Upanishad iii.1 This quote from the Upanishads, which appear at the end of the Vedic period, demonstrates the vague beginnings of the dualistic … Continue reading