We have been at pains to point out that the mentality of man is not constant. It varies over the course of cosmic cycles. It varies between the different castes. It varies between nations and races, whose spiritual makeups may be quite different. It varies within an individual who is involved with an initiatic path.<\/p>\n
We have provided examples. We have described in some detail, as best we can to those who have no notion of it, the interiority of the men still in the Primordial State of consciousness. We have used St Anthony to demonstrate that the spiritual makeup of the knower radically differs from those sleepwalking through life. We have repeatedly referred to the levels of consciousness described by Evola in The Individual and the Becoming of the World<\/em>. We have tried to show how the man’s consciousness changed from the Hyperborean to the Vedic period. We have described the orders of chivalry and their difference and independence from the religious orders.<\/p>\n Many readers may be incredulous, but none of this is a matter of theory, reason, science, philosophy, or discursive thought. It is a result of an intuition, that is, a direct realization of such states. No logic, no argument can dissuade us, just as no logic, no argument can dissuade us that the banana tree outside the window does not exist. Don’t believe me. Instead, believe the generations of spiritual writers who have described higher states of consciousness. Believe the traditional authors who have brought that to our attention. That should motivate you to seek such states yourself. On the other hand, the weak and the indifferent will prefer to take refuge in their various belief systems and ideologies.<\/p>\n Thus the attempts of a Kant to discern a philosophical critique applicable to all men at all times, a Heidegger to discover the meaning of Dasein for all men at all times, of a Hegel, Marx or Comte to reveal the ineluctable evolutionary movement of history are ultimately misguided. In Chapter 19 of Revolt Against the Modern World<\/em> (my translation), Evola makes this clear and confirms what we have claimed above.<\/p>\n We have already brought your attention to the fact that traditional man and modern man are different not simply in terms of their mentality nor their type of civilization. Rather, the difference concerns the very possibilities of experience, the manner in which the world of nature is experienced, therefore the categories of perception and the fundamental relationship between the I and the not-I.<\/p>\n Therefore, space, time, causality in traditional man had a character quite different from what is present in the experience of the men of more recent times. The error of gnoseology (or theory of knowledge) beginning with Kant is to presume that these fundamental forms of human experience have remained always the same, specifically those forms familiar to men of today. Instead, in regard to that, one can also observe a profound transformation, consistent with the general involutionary process [tr: that is, the cosmic cycle<\/em>].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have been at pains to point out that the mentality of man is not constant. It varies over the course of cosmic cycles. It varies between the different castes. It varies between nations and races, whose spiritual makeups may be quite different. It varies within an individual who is … Continue reading \n