The philosopher of the future is more like a prophet than a philosopher. Hence, he must learn to think with his heart as well as with his head. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Prelest and Other Dreams
By now, everyone should have figured out the meaning of my dream, which is: Sleeping people are full of spiritual delusions. Awake men are more cautious. This spiritual delusion is called prelest. This cannot be considered a rare condition, but rather it is the universal state of people. It begins … Continue reading
The Pristine Theology
I had a dream two nights ago. A voice was giving me great wisdom. It said it was a blessing to have access to such wisdom while I was sleeping and that I should share it. I could barely wait to wake up so I could write it all down. … Continue reading
Michelstaedter, Part 2
Previous: ⇐ Carlo Michelstaedter Part 1 Next: Giovanni Gentile ⇒ The is the second of two parts, in which Julius Evola details his intellectual debt to Carlo Michelstaedter. From Saggi sull’Idealismo Magico. In order to illuminate Michelstaedter’s central problem, it may be useful to connect the concept of insufficiency or … Continue reading
The Turd in the Punch Bowl
It will be useful to provide more concrete examples illustrating the difference between the consciousness formed by persuasion and that formed by rhetoric, as described by Carlo Michelstaedter. The End of Rhetoric There is an intellectual lust just as surely as there is sexual lust. Men get excited about hearing … Continue reading
Astray in the Human Jungle
Turn every negativity to your profit. ~ St John Climacus Courtly love can be effective only if it is based on a Gnosis which is lived, for only a lived Gnosis, on that has been acquired through experience and has gone down into the heart—one joined with Hope that is … Continue reading
The Pearl Tiara
A pearl tiara has a design and a structure. The pearls are arranged in a certain way, usually by size. It is built around precious metals and may include other gems. Although the quality of each individual pearl is important, the piece of jewelry achieves its beauty in its totality, not from any pearl in particular. Continue reading
Carlo Michelstaedter, Part 1
There is a man in whom the demand of the real individual toward absolute value, toward conviction, has been confirmed in the modern epoch, like a lightning flash and in a reality intense with life; this man, who in the clearest way, by shattering all compromises by which the I has been able to take life to its goal. Continue reading