Contemporary Requirements for Magical Idealism

quantum time

The past remains simply a mark with which I identify a part of my current experience, since a past in itself, i.e., a past that falls outside my real experience, which is not an object, is gnoseologically an absurdity and non-being. From that, it follows that history is nothing other than a mode according to which the I projects onto the canvas of time, I would say almost as in a mythical figuration, that it is to will interiorly and intemporally. As creator of history in the current historical moment, the individual experiences in this way only the limit-point of his own affirmation. Continue reading

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

Everything else is a Pastime

walking in the forest

The next question is “who desires, initiates and brings about the change.” If the world is phenomenon, then the “who” must be outside phenomenon, that is, noumenal, not a “thing”. The “who” is the constant in every act of consciousness, which is in perpetual flux. As such, it is not part of the world, but rather the silent observer of all that is. This is unobservable to scientists, who must necessarily deal with phenomenon. For the philosopher, it can only be an issue for debate, ultimately unresolvable. But for the metaphysician — and this is what distinguishes him from the philosopher — it as a definite and knowable state. In Tradition, this state has been called, inter alia, the Unmoved Mover, the Observer, True Will, or Atman. Continue reading

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