Typically, as Mihai has pointed out, the imagination functions to degrade man. It offers him pornography, violence, and all other species of lust: a 24/7 cinema strip of running images. If it’s not doing this, it’s running narcissistic movie clips of nonstop happy endings for the engrossed slave, who lives … Continue reading
Short Note on Woman in East and West
I just discovered that Guido De Giorgio‘s essay Short Notes on Ascesis and Anti-Europe is missing a note. Although this section was present in the original Ur journal and even the first collections, it was excluded in all the editions after 1955. I have no idea why. I have a … Continue reading
Yangming’s Doctrine of Awakening
It was pointed out in a discussion here that Valentin Tomberg wrote the following on “exteriorization”, summarizing the respective attitudes of Buddha and Christ to the vision of a damaged world: The Buddha saw the true nature of the world and that it was sick. Considering it incurable he instituted … Continue reading
Gnomic Will
The gnomic will is when you feel compelled to deliberate between multiple choices before deciding what to do. This is opposed to the True Will which arises spontaneously and intuitively from one’s real inner being. This post started out as a prequel to the upcoming translation of Evola on Christian … Continue reading
Short Notes on Ascesis and Anti-Europe
This is authored by Havismat (Guido De Giorgio), from Volume 2 of Introduction to Magic. We see more of the paradoxical style of his writing. He also reveals some personal details about his time in Tunisia and his experience with Sufis. Regarding expression. There is the traditional one, the doctrinal … Continue reading
Vichara and Alchemical Marriage
This is part 2 of a series. Part 1 is Preparation for Recognizing Esoterism. The Technique of Vichara Mouni Sadhu made the journey from Theosophy to the Hermetic tradition, although he seems to have found his ultimate resting place in the Vedanta as taught by Ramana Maharshi. Interestingly, he and … Continue reading
The Idea of the World in the West
This the the concluding part of review by Julius Evola that originally appeared in Bilychnis, volume XXVI, September, 1925. In this section, he discusses the book L’idea e il mondo by R. Pavese, while comparing it to the ideas previously discussed about Bhagavan Das. I know nothing of Pavese and … Continue reading
Poets of the Reunion
Here is Chesterton: The originality of George MacDonald has also a historical significance, which perhaps can best be estimated by comparing him with his great countryman Carlyle. It is a measure of the very real power and even popularity of Puritanism in Scotland that Carlyle never lost the Puritan mood … Continue reading