This is the second and final installment of Julius Evola‘s commentary on Hermann Keyserling from Saggi sull’Idealismo Magico. Evola refers to Keyserling’s “brilliant interpretation of the function of meaning, according to which understanding is removed from the rational and peripheral plane and compenetrated with the principle of deep self-realization and … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Prequel to the Three Worlds
Since each inferior world is governed by its superior and receives its influence, so the mages believe that one can penetrate naturally by means of the same levels and for each one of these worlds up to the “archetypical world”, constructor and ruler of all things and from there to act not only on natural powers, but to also create new ones. Continue reading
Hermann Keyserling – Part 1
The key to Keyserling’s views is the phenomenon of understanding. It is essentially a point of spontaneity, freedom, and interiority. Continue reading
The New Warrior Monk
The Role of the Knight In Gnosis, Vol I, Boris Mouravieff describes the Knight of the Middle Ages: The elite man of the Middle Ages was the knight. Chivalry formed the nobility, the ruling class in that epoch where money did not yet hold the reins of public and private … Continue reading
Magical Idealism in a Larger Whole
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. ~ Sophocles Since one aspect of building a system is to integrate a lesser one into a larger whole, what follows are some possible wholes that will accept what is profitable in magical idealism, while … Continue reading
Philosophy Around the World
Although Keyserling appreciates the wisdom of the East, believing it to be superior to the West, he sees them as unsuitable for practical life. Europeans strive to manifest their ideals in the physical world. Continue reading
Giovanni Gentile — Part 3
Next: Hermann Keyserling ⇒ This is the third and final installment of Julius Evola‘s commentary on Giovanni Gentile from Essays on Magical Idealism. Although it is highly technical, we can cut to the main point. First, there is the distinction between spontaneity and freedom. In a free act, “I” make … Continue reading
The Lupercalia of Mad Men
A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, “You are mad, you are not like us. Continue reading
Giovanni Gentile — Part 2
Next: Giovanni Gentile Part 3 ⇒ In this section, Julius Evola deals with the nature of thought itself. Thought cannot be the object of thinking, since it would then be just another thought. Rather, there must be something that transcends thinking, the “non-rational”. Nevertheless, the non-rational is not the same … Continue reading
Giovanni Gentile — Part 1
Next: Giovanni Gentile Part 2 ⇒ This is Part 1 of probably four parts of Julius Evola‘s commentary on Giovanni Gentile in Saggi sull’Idealismo Magico (Essays in Magical Idealism). It has been difficult to translate, not just because of the difficulty of the subject matter, but more because there is … Continue reading