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Julius Evola: Key Concepts
From Academic Agent's video by the same name


1. The Absolute
The metaphysical, transcendent Truth which is manifested in the inherited ancient wisdom of all civilized peoples and is higher than life.

2. Myth is truer than recorded history
The Absolute, since it does not belong to the profane, material world, is more accurately recorded in myth than it is recorded in events.

3. Esoteric knowledge
Esoteric knowledge is secret knowledge only for the select few as against the exoteric knowledge of the masses. Virtually none of Evola’s writings are intended for a mass audience. He viewed the plebian with absolute disdain, but rather he wrote for the aristocrats of the soul who seek something higher than the animal instincts. He explores some specific esoteric knowledge in the Hermetic Tradition and the mystery of the Grail.

4. The Four Castes
Priests, warriors, merchants, peasants. These were the four castes outlined by Hesiod, traditional Hinduism and ancient Persian writings. Evola believed that while the priest caste had dominated in the East, the West it was mostly the warrior caste which had prevailed. But both were infinitely preferable to rule by merchants.

5. Kali Yuga and the Four Ages
The Golden Age led by a warrior priest King, or a divine King, in a solar phase degenerates into a Silver Age where warriors have lost their transcendent status and now are mere military leaders who require the support of priest class who then come to take over and usher in a feminized lunar phase which then degenerates further into a Bronze Age led by the dominant merchant class which completely dissolves transcendent values into mere matter. This finally gives way to the Kali Yuga, the Dark Age, which Evola believed we are living through now. In the Kali Yuga all energies are downwards, any sense of transcendence is lost and society becomes entirely profane. Tradition and hierarchy have been entirely inverted before its final stage which is the rule of the peasants or mass man. By this stage all values are reduced to matter, machines, dysgenic egalitarianism, and the reign of abstract quantity.

6. Xeniteia
The condition of living abroad or being absent from ones homeland; to live surrounded by barbarous people and customs; away from ones polis; an exile from the world of Tradition. This is the basic attitude outlined in Revolt Against the Modern World.

7. Apoleteia
Abstention from active participation in the construction of the human polis; an inner attitude of indifference and attachment. You must become a differentiated man says Evola. This is the attitude cultivated in both Men Among the Ruins and particularly Ride the Tiger.

8. Autarkeia
Self suffiency and spiritual independence. Evola maintained that there were 2 paths to achieve liberation from the conditioned world – the path of action and the path of contemplation. He explores various ways to achieve this liberation in the Yoga of Power which explore the Left Hand Path, the Path of Action and the Doctrine of Awakening which explores the Right Hand Path, the Path of Contemplation. He also returns to the Right Hand Path in Eros and the Mysteries of Love. It is important to note that no element of Evola’s thinking is shrouded in mysticism or mumbo jumbo, the goal is always absolute self control and self mastery while being fully conscious. There is no element of escapism, no recourse to the subconscious taking mind altering drugs, looking at crystal balls or tarot cards, losing oneself, getting in touch with nature, or any other such woolly modern minded nonsense, all of which are critiqued as false spirituality in The Mask and the Face of Contemporary Spiritualism, reprinted as the Fall of Spirituality. For Evola, spiritual initiation and awakening can be achieved through discipline alone.

9. No dialogue with modernity
There is no negotiation with subversion. He asserted absolute truths that were not up for debate and as such did not seek to persuade anyone and he always placed the focus on self questioning and to the cultivation of an inner self.

10. The spirit always comes above the blood
For Evola, Spirit was the fundamentally defining feature that dictates hierarchy and practically everything else. The regality of spirit comes before the regality of blood. He also saw this as being true of races where by somebody might be one race by birth but spiritually come to belong to another by taking on their animating essence.

The Ultimate Hyperborea Edit

“The agony of our time lies here. The century does not fail for lack of material support. Never before has the universe been so rich, filled with so much comfort, helped by such productive industrialization. Never have there been so many resources or goods offered. It is the heart of man, and this alone, which is bankrupt. It is by a lack of love, it is by a failure of believing and of giving oneself, that the world has overwhelmed itself with murderous blows.” — Leon Degrelle

Based on the Pantheon in Rome, the Volkshalle (had it been built) would be the largest enclosed space on the planet. Over 700 feet high and 800 feet in diameter, the plan was sixteen times larger than the dome of St. Peter's in the Vatican.

With a staggering capacity of 180,000 people, the dome may even have generated its own weather climate. In winter temperatures, the body heat of so many thousands is speculated to have likely precipitated, wherein water would have fallen from the roof as its own "indoor rain".