The poet John Keats coined the term Negative Capability as the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time. To a higher type of mind, it may indicate the capacity to transcend easy answers and to consider things in their fullness. However, to a lesser … Continue reading
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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
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
Defending the Defensible
We have often made the point that the analog of Spiritual Unity in the world is Harmony, not identity of opinion. Just as there are six different Orthodox schools in Hinduism, seemingly at odds with each other, there are, and should be, different schools of thought in the West, which, … Continue reading