… the Golden Age, when my forefathers, these last remnants of gods on earth, upheld cosmic justice by preserving the natural Pyramid of Life, in the divine hierarchy of Nature, whereby the highest men, the purest in blood and soul, the strongest in will and resolve, the healthiest in body and spirit, the boldest in war and struggle, the wisest in peace and government, the brightest in mind and soul, the noblest in deed and thought, the most creative and the most divine, ruled the lowest men, the impure, the weak and sick of body and mind, the ignoble, the ignorant and the cowardly, the dumb and the base, the darkest men … thus maintaining cosmic harmony and perfection on earth; for the caste system embodies the divine order and the beauty, justice and excellence of Brahma the Supreme.

Abir Taha, The Epic of Arya

Involution is the opposite, but not the “flip-side”, of evolution. It is the bringing into manifestation of the ideal as described in the Degrees of Knowledge. In the case of man, there must be the Ideal of the Absolute Man before an individual man can manifest in the physical world. Now Matter is concentrated Energy and Energy is concentrated Will. (See the Principle of Manifestation.) Thus the most powerful Will will be able to bring into manifestation — or create — the closest approximation to the Absolute Man. Weaker Wills will not.

So when Evola writes that the ape is derived from man by involution, he refers to a being that fell short of manifesting fully as a man. Thus the ape manifests prior to man in the temporal sense, so looking back in time, it seems the ape came first. However, ontologically, the ideal has priority. It takes a different kind of seeing, a spiritual intuition or clairvoyance, to see the ideal. As Plato pointed out, this knowing is actually a remembering, the memory of the ideal. So to know the Golden Age of Hyperborea, in other words, the ontological origin, is simultaneously a remembering.

The Hermetist Valentin Tomberg writes in Meditations on the Tarot:

Memory is the magic, in the subjective domain, which effects the evocation of things from the past. It renders past things present, just as a sorcerer or necromancer evokes the spirits of the dead by making them appear, so does memory evoke things of the past and make them appear to our inner mental vision. The present remembrance is the result of a magical operation in, the subjective domain, where one has succeeded in evoking form the black void of forgetfulness a living image from the past. A living image from the past – imprint? Symbol? Copy? Phantom? It is all of these at once, It is an Imprint in so far as it reproduces an impression received in the past; it is a symbol in so far as it makes use of my imagination to represent a reality which goes beyond its imaginary representation, it is a copy in so far as it only aims at reproducing the original from the past, it is a phantom in so far as it is an apparition from the black abyss of forgetfulness and in so far is it recalls to life the past in making it present to my inner vision.

So we remember Hyperborea, in order to know Hyperborea, so as to manifest it fully at the end of this age.

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 “Alas! The god in man remains a child waiting to mature. Shall man grow into a god, or is he doomed in his humanity?” This question, posed in the prologue of Abir Taha’s inspirational new philosophical novel, The Epic of Arya: In Search of the Sacred Light (www.the-epic-of-arya.com), is central to the sacred mission of its main character, Arya, who seeks to find the god within.

The Epic of Arya is a spiritual bible, an allegorical novel that follows its narrator on a mesmerizing journey of self-discovery that will heal, awaken and transform readers with its messages on love, truth and spirituality.

Arya has a secret longing and a silent pain: half-woman, half-goddess, she is torn between Love and Truth, between passion and duty. When she wakes up from her eternal sleep into a new world that is surrounded by darkness and confusion, she wonders, “Why has the gloomy veil of Maya, goddess of illusion, covered the radiant face of Gaia our Earth? Where and why has the sun disappeared? Why is God dead?” But what she will discover is that the world has descended into ignorance, wearing the mask of “faith” in the East, when it is truly obscurantist fundamentalism, and the mask of “reason” in the West, which disguises atheist materialism.

In exasperated despair, Arya resolves to roam the Earth in search of the lost sacred light that would end humanity’s eternal night. She travels from East to West in search of Hyperborea, otherwise known as Shambhala, the “land beyond the North wind,” where legend has it that the sun never sets and where gods first existed on the earth and lived among men by speaking through them.

On her journey, Arya meets various characters that serve as mediators to the discovery of her own identity and divinity, including a wise old man from the East, an old woman from the North, a knight with whom Arya falls in love, the King of the World, and a prophet who is Arya’s soul-mate and the invisible, constant presence which guides her.

As Taha explains, these characters are aspects of Arya’s own soul and the souls of all people. “Life is first and foremost an inner journey of self-discovery,” writes Taha. “All the people we meet on our path are archetypes, symbols, states of mind, milestones that lead us back to our own inner journey on the path of awakening.”

Full of practical wisdom, poetic prose and spirituality steeped in philosophy, The Epic of Arya conveys a universal message of unity, hope and salvation in a world torn apart by the clash of civilizations and religions, offering a spiritual alternative.

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