{"id":4828,"date":"2012-09-09T18:19:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T22:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2020-09-16T07:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T11:02:18","slug":"orientations-point-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=4828","title":{"rendered":"Orientations: Point 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

⇐ Point 10<\/a> Conclusion ⇒<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIn the final point, Julius Evola<\/strong> addresses the question of spirituality. He first considers Catholicism, the last Tradition in the West, but rejects it as inadequate in our time because the Church no longer represents that Tradition. If, instead, had it maintained that Tradition, had it still represented the only force against the modern world, and had it held firm to the principles of the The Syllabus Of Errors<\/a> (which everyone should read), Evola would support it.<\/p>\n

Evola does not propose some other tradition, alien to Europe, but rather counts on new men, aware of the transcendent, aware of life beyond death, to forge a new spirituality, in expectation of a blessing from above. Given his anti-clerical attitude, this is a somewhat inconsistent position. What is there to prevent such men from recovering that tradition on their own? Why must they wait passively for the “church” to give it to them? The Kingdom is taken by force.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let us briefly consider a final point, that of the relationship with the dominant religion. For us, the secular State, in whatever form, belongs to the past. And, in particular, we oppose its parody that asserted itself, in certain circles, as the \u201cethical State\u201d, the product of a weak, spurious, empty \u201cidealistic\u201d philosophy associated with Fascism [that of Giovanni Gentile], but through its nature such to give equal approval, like a dialectical game of dice, to the anti-Fascism of a [Benedetto] Croce.<\/p>\n

Yet though we oppose similar ideologies and the secular State, a clerical or clericalistic State is likewise unacceptable for us. A religious factor is necessary as the background for a true heroic conception of life that must be essential for our political alignment. It is necessary to feel in oneself the evidence that there is a higher life beyond this terrestrial life, because only those who feel this way possess an unbreakable and unconquerable strength, only they will be capable of an absolute enthusiasm. But where this is lacking, to defy death and to take no account of one\u2019s own life is possible only in sporadic moments of elation or in the unleashing of irrational forces: nor is there a discipline that can be justified, in the individual, with a higher and independent meaning.<\/p>\n

But this spirituality, which must be alive among us, does not require obligatory dogmatic formulations of a given religious confession; however, the style of life that must be drawn from it is not that of Catholic moralism, which aims for little more than a virtuistic domestication of a human animal; politically, this spirituality cannot but foster mistrust in respect to everything that as humanitarianism, equality, principle of love and of the forgiveness instead of honor and justice; it is an integral part of the Christian conception. Certainly, if Catholicism were capable of making a program of high ascesis its own and exactly on this base, almost like a recovery of the spirit of the best Medieval crusader, makes of faith the soul of an armed bloc of forces, almost a new close-knit Templar Order, relentless against the currents of chaos, breakdowns, subversion, and the practical materialism of the modern world\u2014certainly, in such a case, and also in the case that, at the minimum, it held firm to the positions of the Syllabus, there could not be a single instance of doubt about our choice.<\/p>\n

However, as things currently stand, given the mediocre and, fundamentally, bourgeois and parochial level, to which today practically everything that is confessional religion has descended and given the modernist destruction and the rising opening to the left of the post-conciliar Church of the \u201caggiornamento\u201d, for our men, pure reference to the spirit will suffice, precisely as the evidence of a transcendent reality, to appeal to another force in order to graft onto our force, to have a foreboding that our battle is not only a political battle, to attract an invisible consecration on a new world of men and leaders of men.<\/p>\n

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⇐ Point 10<\/a> Conclusion ⇒<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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