Two letters from Rene Guenon to Guido de Giorgio regarding Julius Evola. He is a fool because he does not know what everyone knows; he is a sage because who knows what everyone does not know. ~ Fulvio Mocco, I Tarocchi esoterici Rene Guenon was described by Julius Evola on … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Eliade on Evola’s Revolt
I don’t believe Mircea Eliade’s review of Julius Evola’s Revolt against the Modern World is available in English. It was originally published in the Romanian journal Vremea, VIII, n. 382, Bucarest, 31 March 1935. Eliade would go on to become a world-renowned historian of religion from his position at the … Continue reading
From Crisis to Revolt
I don’t know if the following review of Revolt against the Modern World by Rene Guenon has been published anywhere, but it is worth including here for the issues it raises. Like Coomaraswamy, the primary objection here is also the emphasis of regality over the sacerdotal caste. Those who would … 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
The Principles of Well-bred Men
Julius Evola famously said, in denying he was a fascist, that his principles were those that “every well-bred man considered healthy, sane, and normal prior to the French revolution.” It is time, now, to investigate, describe, and defend those principles. There are two phases in the recovery of Tradition, i.e., … Continue reading
Action and Contemplation
H/T Avery In the 1950s, several of Julius Evola’s essays were published in the English language journal, East and West, by the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente. In January 1954, Evola’s review of Rene Guenon’s Crisis of the Modern World appeared. The particular topic that interests now is the … Continue reading
Birth and Essence of the Modern Myth (V)
In the conclusion to the essay, Julius Evola brings up the question of the future elite who will restore Tradition. This will take place in several steps. First of all, Evola tries to clear up the inevitable misunderstandings when people first here the word. He is not speaking of what … Continue reading
Birth and Essence of the Modern Myth (IV)
In this segment, Evola speculates on how myths are created and then on the necessary steps to reverse the regression of the castes. The creators of myths must come from an elite, since the masses certainly cannot do so. Yet he points out the the ultimate source of myth must … Continue reading
Birth and Essence of the Modern Myth (III)
Far from eliminating myths, modernity, starting from the Enlightenment, introduced a new series of myths. Traditional myths were intended to lead men beyond words and thoughts, to a realization in the silence, the brilliant light of transcendence. Instead, the myths of modernity are grey; rather than awakening to superconscious reality, … Continue reading