{"id":2832,"date":"2011-08-03T22:49:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T02:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2020-08-03T08:23:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T12:23:05","slug":"fabre-dolivet-and-the-myth-of-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=2832","title":{"rendered":"Fabre d’Olivet and the Myth of Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the face of the chaos of modernity, the only salvation is form. ~ Julius Evola, motto to Il mito del sangue<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Julius Evola<\/strong> regarded his books Il mito del sangue<\/cite> (“The Myth of Blood”) and Sintesi di dottrina della razza<\/cite> as two parts of a single work. The first volume is a systematic and critical study of various thinkers, most of them unknown or little read today, who maintained a biological basis for racial doctrine. His ultimate target was the National Socialists whose doctrines, he considered to be materialistic, debauched, and vulgar. In the second volume he proposed his own spiritual and transcendent view.<\/p>\n

Antoine Fabre d’Olivet<\/strong> was a French Hermetist of the early 19th<\/sup> century, who wrote important books on Pythagoras, music theory, the interpretation of the book of Genesis, and his most influential Philosophic History of the Human Race<\/cite><\/a>. Rene Guenon<\/strong> and Valentin Tomberg<\/strong> have dealt with some of Fabre’s ideas extensively. As for Evola, however, I have found just three references to him, all of them in Il mito del sangue<\/cite>. In the chapter on Gobineau, Evola mentions a writer named Virey who penned the book Natural History of the Human Race<\/cite> based on biological and genetic theories of race. Evola contrasts that with Fabre d’Olivet:<\/p>\n

Around the same time, here and there, various attempts were made to sketch our a spiritual classification. Thus, in 1824, with an obvious polemic reference to the work of Virey, Fabre d’Olivet’s book of more than little interest, was published. The Philosophical History of the Human Race<\/em> contained a general racial classification scheme besides the attempt to identify the influence that, in a history starting with primordial times, each race would have exercised in its turn. The classifications are: the red or austral race, the yellow race, the black or sudeen race, the white or Boreal race. The most important aspect is that Fabre d’Olivet was the first, at that time, to hold to the theory of the remote Boreal or Hyperborean origin of the white race in the Arctic. For him, such a thesis has less of the character of a scientific hypothesis, than of the exposition of a traditional teaching, still conserved in certain very closed circles with which he was in contact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other writers then picked up on the theory of the Hyperborean origin, and Evola mentions, in particular, Teodoro Poesche, Karl Penka, and Ludwig Wilser. Unfortunately, we cannot get into their interesting speculations at this time. Suffice it to say that their ideas are “polar” opposite to the more contemporary generally accepted “out of Africa” scientific theory.<\/p>\n

The final reference occurs in the chapter entitled The Arctic Myth<\/cite>, whose primary focus is Hermann Wirth<\/strong>. Evola contrasts the esoteric understanding of a Fabre d’Olivet to the attempts at a more “scientific” understanding. In particular, he is critical of those efforts that distort the esoteric understanding for political ends.<\/p>\n

As for Fabre d’Olivet, we have already said the “arctic”, for him, is more than one of the many hypotheses of modern researchers. It corresponds instead to a knowledge of a “traditional” order, that has still been conserved among certain esoteric circles. Therefore, it has value independent of the efforts that those, such as Wirth, who have had an obscure intuition, and have tried to justify it with modern “scientific” methods and, above all, it has vale independent of the attempts of some racialists and even Wirth to utilize ad usum delphini<\/i>, that is, for more or less contingent political goals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the face of the chaos of modernity, the only salvation is form. ~ Julius Evola, motto to Il mito del sangue Julius Evola regarded his books Il mito del sangue (“The Myth of Blood”) and Sintesi di dottrina della razza as two parts of a single work. The first … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[339,152],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evola","tag-fabre-dolivet","tag-hermann-wirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12524,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions\/12524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}