In the November 1940 issue of La Vita Italiana, Julius Evola, writing under the pseudonym “Arthos”, addressed the ancient concept of race in the article “Sulle origini e sul doppio volto del razzismo”. We here are interested in the Emperor Julian, known as the Apostate. In this article, Evola aligns … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Essence and Existence
The universe exists for each Individual because he consciously wills it. ~John Woodroffe, Sakti and Sakta After concluding the discussion of privation, Julius Evola next turns to the concepts of Essence and Existence. This can be understood as the philosophical analog of the concepts of Purusha and Prakriti. There are … Continue reading
The Three Trials
The truth or falsity of idealism—and that means if man can or can’t give certainty and sense to his life and his experience—cannot be demonstrated theoretically: it can be decided not through an intellectual act, but through a concrete realization. Continue reading
Il Capo
The rule of many is not good; one ruler let there be. ~ Ulysses, in Homer’s The Iliad, and again by Aristotle at the end of Book XII the Metaphysics. Much is made over the alleged Evolian reversal of the roles of the castes. This in part stems from his … 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
Transformation is a Real Possibility
As to philosophy, its limit is magical idealism, in which it ends up by recognizing its own insufficiency and postulating the realization of power as that by which most problems can find their only absolute solution. Continue reading