to realize the wild pleasure of existing tragically — such is the test of Dionysus Continue reading
Tag Archives: The Individual and the Becoming of the World
The Religious Attitude
He faces up to reality, without veils, in its tragic, irrational, unprovidential nature. Continue reading
Essence and Existence
The universe exists for each Individual because he consciously wills it. ~John Woodroffe, Sakti and Sakta After concluding the discussion of privation, Julius Evola next turns to the concepts of Essence and Existence. This can be understood as the philosophical analog of the concepts of Purusha and Prakriti. There are … Continue reading
The Three Trials
The truth or falsity of idealism—and that means if man can or can’t give certainty and sense to his life and his experience—cannot be demonstrated theoretically: it can be decided not through an intellectual act, but through a concrete realization. Continue reading
Builder of Worlds
We will fiercely combat all intellectual and philosophic rhetoric whereby man restrains himself to talk about his impotency rather than to finally jump to his feet, to grasp himself and, burning up his impotency, to make himself what he is in himself. Continue reading
The Creative Power of the Individual
The individual gives meaning and purpose to the world. Continue reading
The Cosmic Value of Human Action
magical idealism reveals the cosmic value to human action. For the realist, everything already is, so that activity is little more than rearranging the furniture. Opposed to this view, action is heroic. The True Man creates being, where previously there had only been non-being or privation. Continue reading
Transformation is a Real Possibility
As to philosophy, its limit is magical idealism, in which it ends up by recognizing its own insufficiency and postulating the realization of power as that by which most problems can find their only absolute solution. Continue reading