← Chapter 23 Chapter 24 The effort of one who stands on tiptoe does not lead to rising To splay the legs excessively is not walking He who puts himself in the light remains in the shadow He who believes he has arrived is pushed back To put oneself ahead … Continue reading
Guido De Giorgio, in his first article for Julius Evola’s La Torre, writes of modern man as a worm, covered in worms, and a worshipper of worms. It is a withering assault that makes Evola’s and Guenon’s critiques seem gentle and mild by comparison. He draws his morbid poetic imagery … Continue reading
In his farewell essay, closing the Krur journal and introducing La Torre, Julius Evola wrote that he had exhaustively expounded the esoteric knowledge that he was able to personally transmit (i.e. practices and states of consciousness that he could speak to from personal experience) in his previous writings (Introduction to … Continue reading
← Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Speak little and act like nature A violent wind does not blow all morning A sudden downpour does not last all day This impermanence is proper to nature itself [= to Heaven-and-Earth] If even nature does not have the power to persist (in extreme actions) … Continue reading
Dante is a poet in a special sense. One cannot and should not consider Dante as a “poet” in the ordinary and modern sense of the word. For moderns, poetry is “an expression of individual states”; it is subjective, it is limited, it is purely aesthetic. Modern aesthetics, from De … Continue reading
We continue today the translation of Evola’s 1959 edition and commentary on the Tao Te Ching, published under the title Il Libro del Principio e della sua Azione [The Book of the Principle and its Action]. ← Chapters 20-21 Chapter 22 To be whole in the fragment Straight in the … Continue reading
For it is the venerable and mysterious Hermit who was master of the most intimate and most cherished dreams of my youth, as moreover he is the master of dreams for all youth in every country, who are enamoured by the call to seek the narrow gate and the hard … Continue reading
That was when I learned about “simulation” for which he should have received a yellow card. Continue reading
Each miracle of the Gospel of St. John is simultaneously a teaching, a parable, a sign, and an event. Continue reading
There is a rich source of teachings on metaphysics, spiritual practice, meditation, and contemplation. It is hubris for anyone to think he or she can recreate all that de novo. Continue reading