{"id":214,"date":"2009-10-03T08:07:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T03:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=214"},"modified":"2021-10-03T00:22:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T04:22:55","slug":"stages-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Stages of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are three stages to become a man: unnatural man, natural man, and supernatural man.<\/p>\n

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  1. Unnatural Man.<\/b> Man, such as he is, is in an unnatural state, that is, he is not, properly speaking, even a man. As Julius Evola describes it:
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    the \u201cI\u201d still lives only as if in a dream: it is not yet a self-consciousness, nor an autonomous principle of action: immersed in an immediate, indistinct coalescence with nature and the world, we can say that it is not so much he who thinks, speaks, and asserts himself, as much as that various forces and impulses think, speak and assert themselves in him. He therefore is only a type of medium, a passive instrument that has his very life outside himself, and he experiences everything as grace, as spontaneity, as the immediate self-manifestation of something that transcends him. (The Individual and the Becoming of the World<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Such a man is a slave to his passions and the faculty of reason, when it is developed, serves only as a tool to satisfy those passions. This is \u201cman\u201d as understood by Darwinism.<\/li>\n

  2. Natural Man.<\/b> This type of man is defined by his rationality: Man is a rational animal<\/i>; but not rational in the restricted instrumental sense of the unnatural man, nor even those learned in books and science. Rather this is a man whose reason dominates and controls the passions and whose will has the power to implement his projects. This type of reason is not merely instrumental, but is all-encompassing, leading to right thought and right action \u2026 that is, such a man lives according to his own nature.<\/li>\n
  3. Supernatural Man.<\/b> A further stage can be reached when the \u201cI\u201d transcends its identity as a man simpliciter<\/i>. This \u201cI\u201d knows itself as \u201cI\u201d and understands that the human state is just one of its possible states of being. At this stage, one can truly be called a god-man<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A further stage can be reached when the \u201cI\u201d transcends its identity as a man simpliciter. This \u201cI\u201d knows itself as \u201cI\u201d and understands that the human state is just one of its possible states of being. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":14955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[90,88,89],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metaphysics","tag-god-man","tag-natural-man","tag-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14963,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/14963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}