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An essay by Julius C. Evola dealing with the formation of an order-like body, in PDF and PNG format

"The modern world is far from being threatened by the danger of underpopulation; the cry of alarm some political leaders have launched in the past with the absurd slogan 'there is power in numbers,' is totally unfounded. The truth is that we are facing an opposite danger: the constant and untrammeled increase of population in purely quantitative terms. The deterioration of the population affects only those stocks that should be considered the bearers of the forces that preside over the demos and the world of the masses and that contribute to any authentic human greatness. When I criticized the racist worldview I mentioned that occult power when present, alive, and at work constitutes the principle of a superior generation that reacts on the world of quantity by bestowing upon it a form and quality. In this regard, one can say that the superior Western races have been agonizing for many centuries and that the increasing growth in world population has the same meaning as the swarming of worms on a decomposing organism or as the spreading of cancerous cells: cancer is an uncontrolled hypertrophy of a plasma that devours the normal, differentiated structures of an organism after subtracting itself from the organism’s regulating laws. This is the scenario facing the modern world: the regression and the decline of fecundating (in the higher sense of the term) forces and the forces that bear forms parallels the unlimited proliferation of 'matter,' of what is formless, of the masses."

- Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

"This being the case, it is no wonder the superior races are dying out before the ineluctible logic of individualism, which especially in the so-called contemporary 'higher classes,' has caused people to lose all desire to procreate. Not to mention all the other degenerative factors connected to a mechanized and urbanized social life and especially to a civilization that no longer respects the healthy and creative limitations constituted by the castes and by the traditions of blood lineage. Thus proliferation is concentrated in the lower social classes and in the inferior races where the animal-like impulse is stronger than any rational calculation and consideration. The unavoidable effects are a reversed selection and the ascent and the onslaught of inferior elements against which the 'race' of the superior castes and people, now exhausted and defeated, can do very little as a spiritually dominating element.

Though today people talk more frequently about 'population control' in view of the catastrophic effects of the demographical phenomenon that I have compared to a cancer, this still does not address the essential issue, since a differentiated and qualitative criterion does not come into play at all. But those who oppose population control on the basis of traditionalist and pseudomoralistic ideas, which nowadays amount to mere prejudices, are guilty of an even greater obtuseness. If what really matters is the greatness and the might of a stock, it is useless to be concerned about the material quality of fatherhood unless an equal concern for its spiritual dimension is present as well in the sense of superior interests, of the correct relationship between the sexes, and above all, of what is really meant by Virility—of what it still signifies on a plane that is not merely naturalistic."

- Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

"If the expired civilization is propped up so as to make it look alive, and if men are treated like rabbits or stallions, their unions being carefully and rationally planned, let no one be fooled; what they will generate will either be a civilization of very beautiful animals destined to work, or, if the individualistic and utilitarian element predominates, a stronger law will lead the races toward the path of regression or extinction according to the same inexorability of the law of entropy and the degradation of energy. What will then be registered by future historians is only one of the several aspects of the 'decline of the West' that are today very much in evidence.

By way of introduction to the second part of this work, let me make a final point that is directly related to what I have previously mentioned concerning the relationships between spiritual virility and devotional religiosity. From these last considerations what has emerged is that what in the West goes by the name of 'religion' truly corresponds to an essentially 'feminine' orientation. The relationship with the supernatural, conceived in a personalized form (theism) as dedication, devotion, and inner renunciation of one’s own will before the divine hypostasis presents the typical traits of the path on which a feminine nature may realize itself."

- Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

The collapse of the 'higher race' is not due to competition from below, but degeneration from within. This 'super-race' which is essentially the royal generative line (and not simply the entirety of the higher castes) gets its power and authority from its embodying of transcendent principles, with which it generates Culture and Race in their highest spiritual senses. This is Evola's meaning of fecundating 'in the higher sense' and what he invokes with Virility. The solution cannot be to simply materially compete with lower castes because they will always be governed moreso by animalistic and chthonic forces, especially when the proper spiritual authority guiding them elsewhere is gone. That is to say, the often presented solution to simply make more children, stockpile arms, etc. cannot work because it fundamentally fights on the wrong front, and one that cannot be won at that. The battle is not with lower castes but with degeneration of the higher castes. The war is spiritual and not material.

If the Übermensch must operate beyond good and evil, the Übervolk must operate beyond blood and soil.

Reaction without aristocracy is like a body without a heart. This is why contemporary reactionaries lack intellectual fecundity and virility.

“The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own states into proper order. Before putting their states into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.”

~Confucius