Although Evola always writes in a discursive style, he advises us that it is only the rishis, the seers, the clairvoyants who can fully understand. In many ways, Miguel Serrano picks up on some of Evola’s themes, though from the perspective of a clairvoyant rather than a metaphysician. In the … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Aquinas on Trade with Foreigners
For the country which needs considerable imports for its support must tolerate continuous intercourse with foreigners … who, having been brought up under different laws and customs, behave in many way differently from the inhabitants of the country, so that these latter are spurred on to act similarly, and social … Continue reading
Man’s Curious Idiosyncrasy
It is one of man’s curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. The mysteries that surround him on all sides are not sufficient for him; he still rejects clear ideas and reduces everything to a problem by some inexplicable twist of pride, which makes him regard … Continue reading
Orientations: The Religious Question
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
Naturalism and Interwar Germany
Both movements suffered from a confusion of Traditional elements with ideals from the Enlightenment. Insofar as they were dominated by materialism, economic concerns, and scientism, they lacked a transcendent — and hence, Traditional — perspective. Continue reading
Men and Ideas
The intrinsic value of an idea and a system must be judged in itself, apart from everything that is part of the world of contingencies. However, from a practical and historical point of view, what is decisive is the quality of the men who make themselves the promoters and defenders … Continue reading
Protected: The First Flower
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Hypocrisy and Anglo-Saxon Politics
This is no doubt natural, because the distinguishing quality of Anglo-Saxon politics has always been hypocrisy, and hypocrisy must always be at pains to shy away from the truth. Continue reading
Cosmic Dignity
This is a brief outline and summary of the first part of “The Individual and the Becoming of the World“. Although its point can not be made by means of a logical argument, perhaps a logical argument can lead one to see the point. Quest for certainty involves direct intuition … Continue reading
The Cosmos as Spectacle
The ethical view of the universe involves us at last in so many cruel and absurd contradictions, where the last vestiges of faith, hope, charity, and even of reason itself seem ready to perish, that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all. … Continue reading