Today with difficulty, if not exceptionally in some close to dangerous existential crises, the potentiality of Christianity at its beginnings as that “tragic doctrine of salvation” can be re-actualized. The problem is not set and we even say without reticence that if anyone who has known, for some time, nothing … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Romans and Spartans at War
The Spartans remain immovable, their shields placed at their feet, without even putting themselves on the defensive against the arrows of the enemy. They await the signal of the gods. At last the victims offer the favorable signs; then the Spartans raise their shields, seize their swords, move on to battle and are victorious. Continue reading
The Religious Attitude
He faces up to reality, without veils, in its tragic, irrational, unprovidential nature. Continue reading
Against the Neopagans
On the Internet, there is an essay, attributed to Julius Evola, going by the title of “Against the Neopagans.” Since it has been so widely disseminated, it is impossible to know its source or the motivation behind it. In fact, it is the translation into English from the German translation … Continue reading
Metaphysics of Freedom
Conscience is neither a product nor a function of character. It is above it and it is only here where the domain of freedom is found. One is free … when one judges and acts according to Justice or conscience. Continue reading
Shakti Power as Play
The only reality is Consciousness, a position for which we may argue but which cannot be established with certitude except by an actual or direct experience of unity. Those who seek to establish supersensible truths on any other ground must fail; just as those who argue against the validity of the individual’s experience must fail. Continue reading
Human, All Too Human
Tradition cannot be understood from the human, all-too-human, perspective. One criticism was based on something called “owness”, as though we pick and choose our gods on the basis of their suitability to our human condition, instead of rising above and seeing our human condition sub specie eternitatis. A second criticism … Continue reading
Forgotten Tradition
There seems to be much misunderstanding of Evola’s moral position. As he claims, he is drawing on doctrines [which] are in truth of a fundamental value, currently almost forgotten, that placed evil in matter. Apparently contemporary readers really have forgotten them, even those who falsely believe themselves to be relying … Continue reading
Knowledge and Power
The fundamental being and expression [of Consciousness or the I] is Joy pulsating as Will-Power and manifesting Itself in an unspeakably sublime cosmic play. It is not a mere abstraction — a wilderness of Pure Being or Pure Nothing as some critics of Vedanta have imagined the abode of Reality … Continue reading
Spiritual Beings
In esoteric cosmologies, in the transition from essence to existence, the being passes through a series of influences, from the subtle to the dense. Continue reading