Part II ⇒ This is the first part of the chapter on the workers from La Tradizione Romana [The Roman Tradition] by Guido De Giorgio. In this part, De Giorgio reviews the metaphysical foundations of the notion of castes and prepares the groundwork for the discussion of the specific functions … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2013
The Meaning and Function of Monarchy (4)
This is the final installment of the essay by Julius Evola that was published under the title Significato e funzione della monarchia. This section concludes Part II of the original essay. ⇐ Segment 3 Now, a similar turning point obviously presupposes the retention, the perpetuation, of the state of class … Continue reading
Round Table: Ossendowski, Guenon, Maritain
In 1924, Rene Guenon, Ferdynand Ossendowski, and Jacques Maritain met for a round table discussion in Paris, hosted by Frederic Lefevre. These are the notes from that meeting, originally published in the 26 July 1924 issue of “Les nouvelles littéraires”. Continue reading
Gleanings about the Field of Pearls
I have been reading The Way of a Pilgrim, recently, which is a Russian peasant’s account of his discovery of the prayer of the heart. The anonymous author had lost his father and wife to an illness, and been dispossessed by a worthless brother, who had also crippled him when … Continue reading
The Meaning and Function of Monarchy (3)
In this regard, it must be remembered that modern democracy in its absolute form is one thing, another is a system of representation, the latter not necessarily coinciding with the former. It is known that a system of representation also existed in traditional monarchical States, but generally as organic representations, i.e., of bodies and orders, not of ideological parties. Continue reading
Talking Father’s Day Blues
The life of the spirit is more important than that of the body, and inner spiritual freedom is more important than outer social freedom and is in fact its cause and origin. The soul is only truly alive when it has freed itself from bondage to its lust and anger. ~ Abdollah Javadi-e Amoli Continue reading
The Meaning and Function of Monarchy (2)
The main prerequisite for a revival of monarchy remains the awakening of a new sensibility for an order that is detached from the most material, and also the simply “social”, plane, and tends to everything that is honor, loyalty, and responsibility. Continue reading
The Meaning and Function of Monarchy
A king who lets his sovereign function be confirmed by the people, admitting thereby that he is accountable to the people — instead of being responsible for the people before God — such a king renounced his kingship. Continue reading