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Maurras and Dumezil
Dumezil is therefore a son of Anthinéa, a fortiori when he asserts that the results of his research have an interest “more aesthetic than scientific” that is, far from materialism. Continue reading
View from the Primordial State
There is a greater probability that the being will encounter one of the innumerable peripheral conditions comparable in our world to those of animals or even vegetables. Continue reading
Arctic Home in the Vedas
In which we briefly outline the idea of cosmic cycles, and illustrate them initially in the revelation of the originary Hyperborean source of the Vedas. This is then extended to Traditions following the Vedas. Finally, there is some speculation on the future course of the West. Continue reading
Political Platonism
The philosophical background of Guenon and his followers’ traditionalism is extremely close to the Platonic tradition … In other words, traditionalism can be taken as radical Platonism. ~ Alexander Dugin, Political Platonism. Dugin’s purpose seems to be to make Tradition academically palatable, by couching it in Platonic language. Obviously, as … Continue reading
The Greater Mysteries
Omnipotence does not mean power to do absurdities. The compulsion of another’s will is such an absurdity, and therefore no real omnipotence could force such a compulsion. Continue reading
Heard Around Town
Arseny’s soul wanted to touch Ursina’s soul … Get used to separation, said Death, it is painful, even if it is only temporary. Continue reading
Transcendence and the Aristocratic Principle
The cause of all wars and revolutions—in a word, of all violence—is always the same: negation of hierarchy. ~ Valentin Tomberg In the essay Transcendence and the Aristocratic Principle, published in Aristokratia III, Edwin Dyga gives us an excellent overview of traditional reactionary thinkers, that is, those of the “Old … Continue reading
Letters from Evola to Eliade (II)
The fact is striking that your works are so overly concerned to not mention any author who does not strictly belong to the official university literature; in your works, e.g., that lovable good man Pettazzoni [Italian professor of religion] is abundantly cited, while not a single word is found about Guenon, and not even other authors whose ideas are much closer to those that permit you to certainly orient yourself in the material that you write about. Continue reading
Pray, Fight, Work
The historiography of the Right needs to be presented in two parts. Evola has written about one of them, specifically, the need to understand historical and current events as manifestations of the degeneration of caste. The other, and more important, is to show how a spiritual elite was able to … Continue reading
Rape of the Sabine Women
There is nothing inapplicable to today. Even for Christians, divine predilection and predestination are dogmas, although you don’t hear much about them today. God will favor some over others, in particular, those who offer prayer and sacrifice. Continue reading