{"id":66,"date":"2008-08-25T09:06:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T04:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=66"},"modified":"2020-08-25T06:33:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T10:33:24","slug":"66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Orientations: The Religious Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

The nature<\/i> of man is to be a cognitive, religious and sociable animal. All experience teaches us this; and, to my knowledge, nothing has contradicted this experience.
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\n~ Joseph de Maistre<\/strong>, Study of Sovereignty<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nEvola regarded Joseph de Maistre as standing on the same side of the barricade as himself. And, like Maistre, he does not deny the obvious — man is a cognitive, religious and sociable animal. It is only the characteristics of knowledge, religion, and society that is in question.
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\nIn 1950, Evola wrote a short pamphlet, Orientations<\/u>, consisting of eleven fundamental points to guide his young followers who were out to form a new right movement after the collapse of World War II. The eleventh and final point deals with the religious question.<\/p>\n

\nA religious factor is necessary as the background for a true heroic conception of life which must be essential for our battle deployment. It is necessary to feel in oneself the evidence that there is a higher life beyond this terrestrial life because only those who feel that way possess an intangible and inner directed strength, only they will be capable of an absolute impulse — while, when this is lacking, defying death and taking no account of one\u2019s own life is possible only in sporadic moments of exaltation or in an outburst of irrational forces: nor is there discipline that can be justified, in the individual, with a higher and self-sufficient significance.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

from Orientamenti<\/i> by Julius Evola<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The nature of man is to be a cognitive, religious and sociable animal. All experience teaches us this; and, to my knowledge, nothing has contradicted this experience. ~ Joseph de Maistre, Study of Sovereignty Evola regarded Joseph de Maistre as standing on the same side of the barricade as himself. … 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":[93,4,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joseph-de-maistre","category-evola","category-politics","category-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12690,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/12690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}