{"id":1897,"date":"2011-03-11T00:27:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T05:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2011-03-11T00:27:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T05:27:22","slug":"il-capo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":"Il Capo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rule of many is not good; one ruler let there be.<\/p>\n

~ Ulysses, in Homer’s The Iliad<\/em>, and again by Aristotle at the end of Book XII the Metaphysics<\/em>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Much is made over the alleged Evolian reversal of the roles of the castes. This in part stems from his portrayal of the regal initiation being above the sacerdotal initiation, which arises from a misreading of some Hindu texts as Coomaraswamy pointed out. Evola also objected to the necessity for the Holy Roman Emperor to be consecrated by the Pope. However, the consecration is not the problem, but the idea of two rulers is. As Guenon points out the The Lord of the World<\/em>, the idea of a single head is certainly traditional and the split in the Middle Ages was a deviation. Guenon writes:<\/p>\n

By the Middle Ages, supreme power had already become divided between the Empire and the Papacy. Such a division marks an organisation that is incomplete at its head since the common principle, on which the two powers depend, is missing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So with the intent of completely putting this issue to rest, we will bring out the full meaning of Guenon’s point, and with a minor tweak, this will bring Evola completely in line with Tradition on this point. In La Tradizione Romana<\/em> Guido de Giorgio dedicated a section of the book to the “Constitution of a Traditional Society”. The first three chapters deal with the three twice-born castes and the fourth with the idea of the “Capo” — Head, Chief, Leader. Beginning with Ulysses’ statement, de Giorgio makes these points.<\/p>\n

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