Previous: ⇐ Carlo Michelstaedter Part 1 Next: Giovanni Gentile ⇒ The is the second of two parts, in which Julius Evola details his intellectual debt to Carlo Michelstaedter. From Saggi sull’Idealismo Magico. In order to illuminate Michelstaedter’s central problem, it may be useful to connect the concept of insufficiency or … Continue reading →

It will be useful to provide more concrete examples illustrating the difference between the consciousness formed by persuasion and that formed by rhetoric, as described by Carlo Michelstaedter. The End of Rhetoric There is an intellectual lust just as surely as there is sexual lust. Men get excited about hearing … Continue reading →

Turn every negativity to your profit. ~ St John Climacus Courtly love can be effective only if it is based on a Gnosis which is lived, for only a lived Gnosis, on that has been acquired through experience and has gone down into the heart—one joined with Hope that is … Continue reading →

There is a man in whom the demand of the real individual toward absolute value, toward conviction, has been confirmed in the modern epoch, like a lightning flash and in a reality intense with life; this man, who in the clearest way, by shattering all compromises by which the I has been able to take life to its goal. Continue reading →

The most fundamental idea we believe is that “the world exists prior to and independent of my consciousness of it.” But what was the world like before any conscious beings experienced it? As astronomers gaze into the heavens, they identify stars, planets, asteroids, comets, moons, galaxies, black holes, and so on. But before the astronomer came into being to mark out the heavens in such a way, such things did not exist as such. Continue reading →

We do not understand our identity, certainly not as Atman, but we identify as a false finite self, a creation of the causal body. Due to ignorance, the causal body creates an illusory world that we believe we inhabit. Continue reading →

  A recent comment by John of Salisbury made me think: “Not only were these scholars unable to drive out the bad scholars, but in combating insanity, they temporarily became insane…” I thought about this question in relation to other questions or comments relating to the “inner struggle” of the … Continue reading →

This essay on couism and its problems that arise from it suffices for now. Everyone sees that it is a matter of passionate questions, which would merit being considered and amplified rather more than what has so far been done. Continue reading →

The nature of reality: we create it ourselves
Faith: you can accomplish anything with it Continue reading →

The individuality descends consciously and of his own free will to birth, into an environment where he is wanted and awaited … Incarnation-birth presupposes conscious agreement between the will of the individuality above and the receiving will below. Continue reading →