To continue the review of Ananda Coomaraswamy’s book, we will cover feminization and understanding the castes in the microcosm. Like Julius Evola, AKC sees the degeneration of castes as a process of feminization. He writes: The Sacerdotium and the man are the intellectual elements, and the Regnum and the woman … Continue reading
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The Priest and the King
There is nothing that can be truly and well done or made except by the man in whom the marriage of the Sacerdotium and the Regnum has been consummated, nor can any peace be made except by those who have made their peace with themselves. ~ Ananda Coomaraswamy In 1942, … Continue reading
Authority and Legitimacy
Non vanno distrutti quei capi che quelle masse raggirano, ma vanno distrutte quelle masse che da quei capi si fanno raggirare. ~ Emanuele Cintura Torrente (personal communication) We have presented three works by Ananda Coomaraswamy, Charles Maurras, and Julius Evola on the themes of the elite and the source and … Continue reading
Eastern Wisdom and Western Knowledge
by Ananda Coomaraswamy East and West, The Crisis of the Modern World, Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrine, and Man and His Becoming, Luzac, London, (1941-1946) are the first in a series in which the majority of Rene Guenon’s works already published in French will appear in English. Another … Continue reading
Spiritual Knighthood
This is from a brief article by Mircea Eliade on the importance of Ananda Coomaraswamy and Henry Corbin. I don’t know if this article is available elsewhere, but in case not, I have translated the French portions of it. Ananda Coomaraswamy did not try to prove any doctrine, but rather … Continue reading
The Nachtenschein of Classic Liberalism
Having come across a remark in AKC‘s letters that the really cultured and spiritual European does not have a peer in their Eastern counterparts, I returned to a volume of Wilhelm Humboldt‘s collected letters and essays, excerpted by subject. Although one can tell that the writing was not in … Continue reading
Nietzsche and the Gospel of Buddhism
The student will, indeed, find that nearly every thought expressed in Buddhism and Hindu literature finds expression in the Western world also; and it could not be otherwise for the value of these thoughts is universal, and therefore they could not be more Oriental than Western; the East has advanced … Continue reading
Traditional Mentality
We have touched upon only a very few of the “motifs” of folklore. The main point that we have wished to bring out is that the whole body of the motifs represent a consistent tissue of interrelated intellectual doctrines belonging to a primordial wisdom rather than to a primitive science; … Continue reading
Coomaraswamy on Evola’s Revolt
The first translation of any of Julius Evola’s works into English was published in the prestigious Indian journal The Visva-Bharati Quarterly (Vol. V, Part IV, New Series, 1940), founded by the Nobel prize winning writer and poet, Rabindranath Tagore. Ananda K Coomsraswamy wrote a brief introduction, which follows below, and … Continue reading
Defending the Defensible
We have often made the point that the analog of Spiritual Unity in the world is Harmony, not identity of opinion. Just as there are six different Orthodox schools in Hinduism, seemingly at odds with each other, there are, and should be, different schools of thought in the West, which, … Continue reading