Far from eliminating myths, modernity, starting from the Enlightenment, introduced a new series of myths. Traditional myths were intended to lead men beyond words and thoughts, to a realization in the silence, the brilliant light of transcendence. Instead, the myths of modernity are grey; rather than awakening to superconscious reality, … Continue reading →

Here we see Julius Evola repeat familiar themes, even verbatim, but in today’s climate, it is well to do so. But besides the outer events of the degeneration of castes, Evola points out how it corresponds to states of consciousness. Not only are the religious, political, and economic structures overturned, … Continue reading →

to realize the wild pleasure of existing tragically — such is the test of Dionysus Continue reading →

Natural phenomena in general, and especially astronomical phenomena, are never looked upon by the traditional doctrines other than as a simple means of expression, whereby they symbolize truths of a higher order. ~ Rene Guenon, Man and his Becoming according to the Vedanta Inner States It is reasonably straight-forward to … Continue reading →

A real man must know himself as Subject, Person, or Self, not as an object whether in his consciousness or in the world. Since to know is to be, the Real Man will also be a Person, not just another individual in the world. There is no formula or program for this task, that is why the hero has a thousand faces. Continue reading →

(quoted text from Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Radhakrishnan) The Upanisads make out that of finite objects the individual self has the highest reality. It comes nearest to the nature of the absolute, though it is not the absolute itself. There are passages where the finite self is looked upon … Continue reading →

Since we now have 50 people in the entire world interested in reading more of Evola, I am releasing another section. It may be of value to compare it to Mircea Eliade’s description of the Legionary movement, from which the following quote is taken. Being a profoundly Christian movement, justifying … Continue reading →

What evidence could we adduce for the claim that Clement of Alexandria possessed secret wisdom? First of all, we could establish his difference from (say) Tertullian or even Jerome (who had the dream about getting rid of his pagan library): “…by philosophy I mean not the Stoic, nor the Platonic, … Continue reading →

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 →

The individual gives meaning and purpose to the world. Continue reading →