Yesterday, we saw that Julius Evola claimed both knowledge and action as the two basic elements. Let’s be clear about what is meant by knowledge. This is not the scholarly knowledge of the professors nor is it related to any discipline like comparative religion. Rather, this knowledge is a gnosis, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Universality and the Heroic Life
The great conquerors always felt almost like sons of fate, carriers of a force that had to be realized and to which, starting from their own person, their own pleasure, their own tranquility, all of which had to be subdued and sacrificed. Continue reading
Fate in the Ancient City
He who does not justly perform his appointed duty may appear as a violator of the whole order of the Universe. ~ Pythagoras In The Ancient City, Fustel de Coulanges begins in the middle of things, at the point when religion had already been established. To get to the beginning … Continue reading
The Interior Lifelessness of the Nordics
This is a section from Il Fascismo visto dalla destra, published by Julius Evola shortly after WWII. As is evident from this paragraph, the process of decay, or progress, depending on your perspective, in the Scandinavian countries, has been going on for quite some time. Obviously, this cannot be attributed … Continue reading
The Celestial & Super-Celestial
Exerpts from “Disputation Against the Judgement of the Astrologers” Now because things always proceed in the same order, it is not by chance that there is some other determined cause outside matter and above the natural principle of agency, by whose intention individual things lead appropriately to the most perfect … Continue reading
Fabre d’Olivet and the Myth of Blood
In the face of the chaos of modernity, the only salvation is form. ~ Julius Evola, motto to Il mito del sangue Julius Evola regarded his books Il mito del sangue (“The Myth of Blood”) and Sintesi di dottrina della razza as two parts of a single work. The first … Continue reading