Evola remarks in his essay on Steiner that Theosophy is actually a counterfeit doctrine. That is, the validity is true insofar as it goes, but the practical effect is actually to blunt the true dogma which it vaguely apprehends. Thus, modern “reincarnation” belief actually tends to inhibit the stark clarity … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Evola-Eliade Correspondence
The correspondence between Julius Evola and Mircea Eliade is now available in an Italian edition, edited by Claudio Mutti. These two writers created an extensive body of work on religious traditions, Eliade through the breadth and variety of his work, and Evola through his in-depth studies of traditions such as … Continue reading
Exit the Cave
Socrates asks: “How can you determine whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake Continue reading
Thinking and Arguments
No one system of philosophy is able to eliminate the others, since each of them is plausible, at least within certain limits. Nevertheless, the game goes on, and people dispute endlessly. It is striking how a man will admit his inferiority in sports, since his abilities in comparison to the better players is plainly visible and cannot be ignored. However, then it comes to the most subtle and difficult philosophical issues, every man considers himself an infallible expert Continue reading
The End of Thinking
The thinkers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were not compelled to pay such disproportionate attention to the opposition of the uneducated. Continue reading
Donoso on Liberalism, Socialism, and Catholicism
Although this book by Cortes was not one of Evola’s favourites because of its overt theological emphasis, it is still very valuable reading for several audiences. First of all, for counter-revolutionaries, it makes clear the ideas of liberalism and socialism and brings to awareness that this opposition to Tradition is … Continue reading
The Philosopher’s Heaven
Man, once awakened to a will to create, wants to bypass the limits of the circles of necessity and master the power residing in Fire. ~ Corpus Hermeticum In Chapter 12 of The Hermetic Tradition, Julius Evola interprets the statement in the Zohar: The visible is the reflection of the … Continue reading