Among the many would-be \u201csaviours\u201d of Western civilisation, there are precious few who know exactly what they are supposed to preserve. For example, many prefer the values of the Enlightenment and praise scientific discovery; while that may be, in a restricted sense, one of the flowers, it is hardly the root.<\/p>\n
To locate the roots, the first source would be the works of George Dumezil, who identified the common social and religious structures of Indo-European peoples from Vedic India to Ireland, and all points in-between. Even if you deny that this was the work of a particular race, it cannot be denied that it was the manifestation of a particular spirit.<\/p>\n
In Sintesi di dottrina dell razza<\/em>, Julius Evola mentioned the qualities “characteristic of the great Aryan civilisations of the Orient, ancient Rome, up to the Roman-Germanic Middle Ages”. So to understand the roots of Western civilisation, it is necessary to return to those sources: the Vedic civilisation of India, the classical civilisations of Greece and Rome, and finally the Catholic Middle Ages as created by the Germanic and classical Roman currents.<\/p>\n Let us not forget, there was no “Europe” until the Middle Ages. Ancient Rome was built around the Mediterranean and included what is now called the Near East and the Mahgreb. Savitri Devi in Son of the Sun<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n \nIf we consider the Western world as a whole (Europe and its background<\/i>), and not only the small portion of it which one generally has in mind when speaking of “the West”, then we have to include in it the countries of the Bible\u2014Syria, Egypt, Arabia, Iraq\u2014no less than Greece; for they are the geographical and cultural background of Christianity, the religion of Europe for centuries.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n After the Middle Ages, Western civilisation takes a different turn and, no longer nourished by its roots, its decline commenced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Among the many would-be \u201csaviours\u201d of Western civilisation, there are precious few who know exactly what they are supposed to preserve. For example, many prefer the values of the Enlightenment and praise scientific discovery; while that may be, in a restricted sense, one of the flowers, it is hardly the … Continue reading