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

Contra Baro Julius Evola

Evola, though he never once adresses himself as such, has been adressed, infamously I might add, by the hereditary noscript of baron, notably by Alexandr Dugin. As far as I know, this is pure fantasy on the part of certain people who, perhaps with benevolent intentions or perhaps not, wish to give Evola some extra glitter or flash in order to impress with undue grandiosity. This path, paved by good intentions, only serve to discredit Evola's name to those who are capable of doing actual research and of ciritcal analysis. Evola is, as the joke goes, ruined by Evolians. Hans Thomas Hakl, who is a prominent scholar, if not the definitive authority, of Evola's work, casts doubt on Evola's hereditary nobility, and I agree with him that it is exceedingly unlikely that Evola was a baron, or any other kind of landed or unlanded nobility, Sicilian or otherwise. To further prove the fantasy of Evola's status as baron incorrect I will provide some very telling quotes by the individual in quesiton himself, taken from his own autobiography:

"I was later to be addressed with all sorts of noscripts which I do not, in fact, possess.”

“I owed very little to the milieu in which I was born, to the education which I received, and to my own blood.”

And furthermore, Evola's family was decidedly bourgeois (his mother was a land lady, and his father a telegraphist).

However, like any myth, there is something to it, though not of the sort a literal analysis can bring fourth. Julius C. Evola was an aristocrat of the soul. He was of the "red" Varna, belonging to the Kshatriya, and accordingly he often characterizes himself as a warrior, (see Evola's self-denoscription as a "lost soldier"). This ties into Evola's philosophy of power, as those of you who are diligent in your studies will note. An aristocrat is such by virtue of some interior differentiation, that "feeling" that Evola talks about in relation to the differentiated.

"Ungern entered Mongolia not as a leader of the last unit of an army battered by the Reds, but as a “mythological hero”, an incarnation of the God of War, as the fulfiller of the Swedish mystic Swedenborg’s testament that “only the sages of the Eurasian steppes of Tartary” – Mongolia – “can find the key to the mysteries of the sacred cycles and the original mystical manunoscript long ago lost by humanity under the strange noscript “The War of Jehovah.”

- 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐧: 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐫, 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐤𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫 𝐃𝐮𝐠𝐢𝐧

"A thing loses its real value the moment when it acquires a price and, accordingly, a price tag, but our civilization is built wholly and completely on money. It is the civilization of Mammon. It is not possible to serve God and Mammon simultaneously."

- 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐮𝐠𝐢𝐧, "𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬"

The World Wars was the Illiad of Western Civilization. Just as Troy fell, the West fell. And just as Aeneas escaped with the Sword of Troy and would go on to establish Rome, so too are we the sons of the West who will found our own sublime civilization.
Do not lose hope nor hang on to a past that is lost. We are embarking on an Odyssey of a new Aryan foundation.
A golden dawn is on our horizon, its our job to keep marching into it.
-Ronin

"In two characteristic testimonies, the cause of the 'fall' was identified with the mixing of the 'divine' race with the human race, which was regarded as inferior; in some texts that 'sin' is compared to sodomy and to sexual mating with animals. On the one hand there is the biblical myth of the Ben Elohim, 'the children of the gods,' who mated with the 'daughters of men,' with the consequence that in the end, 'all mortals led depraved lives on earth.' On the other hand there is the Platonic myth of the inhabitants of Atlantis, conceived as the descendants and disciples of the gods, who lost the divine element and eventually allowed their human nature to become predominant because of their repeated intermingling with human beings. Tradition, in more recent eras, developed a variety of myths referring to races as bearers of civilization and to the struggles between divine races and animal, cyclopic, or demonic races. They are the Aesir against the Elementarwesen; the Olympians and the heroes against giants and monsters of the darkness, the water, and the earth. They are the Aryan deva fighting against the asura, 'the enemies of the divine heroes'; they are the Incas, the dominators who impose their solar laws on the aborigines who worshipped 'Mother Earth'; they are the Tuatha dé Danaan, who, according to Irish legends overcame the dreadful race of the Fomors; and so on. On this basis it can be argued that even though the traditional teaching retains the memory of the existence of stocks that could even correspond to the animalistic and inferior types described in the theory of evolution (this was the substratum predating the civilizations created by superior races), evolutionism mistakenly considers these animal-like stocks to be absolutely primordial, while they are so only relatively."

- Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

"Another mistake of evolutionism is to conceive of some forms of miscegenation that presuppose the emergence of other races that are superior either as civilizations and biological specimens or as products of 'evolution.' These races had their own origins; because so much time has elapsed (as in the case of the 'Hyperborean' and the 'Atlantic' races) and because of geophysical factors, these races have left very few traces of their existence and what remains is difficult to spot by those who are merely seeking archaeological and paleontological traces accessible to profane research.
On the other hand, it is significant that populations that still live in the alleged original, primitive, and 'innocent' state provide little comfort to the evolutionist hypothesis. These stocks, instead of evolving, tend to become extinguished, thereby demonstrating themselves to be the degenerate residues of cycles the vital potential of which has long since been exhausted; in other words, they are heterogeneous elements and remnants left behind by the mainstream of humanity. This was the case of the Neanderthal man, who in his extreme morphological brutishness closely resembles the 'ape-man.' Neanderthal man mysteriously disappeared in a given period and the races that followed (Aurignacian man and especially Cro-Magnon man), and that represented a superior type (so much so that we can recognize in it the stock of several contemporary human races), cannot be considered further 'evolutionary stages' of this vanished type. The same goes for the Grimaldi race, which also became extinct, and for the many 'primitive' populations still in existence: they are not 'evolving,' but rather becoming extinct. Their 'becoming civilized' is not an 'evolution' but almost always represents a sudden mutation that affects their vital possibilities. There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar circumstances instead become extinct; otherwise what takes place is racial mixing with other elements in which no assimilation or real evolution occurs."

- Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

"We may recall here that in some traditions there is the memory of a primordial race characterized by 'weak' or 'soft bones.' For instance Lieh-tzu, when talking about the Hyperborean region in which the present cycle began, mentioned that the inhabitants of this region have 'soft bones.' In more recent times, the fact that superior races that came from the North did not bury but cremated their dead, is just another factor that needs to be considered when facing the dilemma caused by the absence of pieces of bones.
Somebody may object: 'There is no trace whatsoever of this fantastic mankind!' Besides being somewhat naive to think that superior beings could not have existed without leaving behind traces such as ruins, utensils, weapons, and so on, it must be noted that in relatively recent eras there are residues of cyclopic works, though not all of them are typical of a civilized society (the circle at Stonehenge;
enormous stones put in a precarious and miraculous equilibrium; the pedra cansada in Peru; the colossus of Tiuhuanac and the like). The archaeologists are baffled as to what means were employed just to gather and transport the necessary material. Going back in time, not only should we not conveniently forget what has already been admitted or at least not excluded a priori (that is, the existence of ancient lost lands and also that some lands were formed in recent geological eras), but we should also wonder whether it is fair to exclude a priori that a race in direct spiritual contact with cosmic forces ever existed (as tradition claims to be the case in the origins) just because it did not work on materials such as stone or metal, like those races that no longer have the means to act in accord with the power of the elements and beings."

- Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

All too often people forget that spirituality is essentially a way of life and that its measure does not consist of notions, theories, and ideas that have been stored in one’s head.
Spirituality is actually what has been successfully actualized and translated into a sense of superiority which is experienced inside by the soul, and a noble demeanor, which is expressed in the body.
From this perspective it is possible to appreciate a discipline which, although it may concern the energies of the body, will not begin and end with them but will become instead the means to awakening a living and organic spirituality.
This is the discipline of a superior inner character.

Julius Evola

"The memory of this Arctic seat is the heritage of the traditions of many people, both in the form of real geographical references and in symbols of its function and its original meaning; these symbols were often elevated to a superhistorical plane, in other words they were applied to other centers that were capable of being considered as replicas of the former. For this reason there is often a confusion of memories, names, myths, and locations, but a trained eye will easily detect the single components. It is noteworthy to emphasize the interference of the Arctic theme with the Atlantic theme, of the mystery of the North with the mystery of the West, since the latter succeeded the original traditional pole as the main seat. We know that owing to an astrophysical cause, that is, to the tilting of the terrestrial axis, in every era there has been a change in climate. According to tradition, this inclination occurred at the specific moment in which the syntony of a physical and a metaphysical event occurred, as if to represent a state of disorder in the natural world that reflected an event of a spiritual nature. When Lieh-tzu described the myth of the giant Kung- Kung who shatters the 'column of heaven,' he was probably referring to such an event. In this Chinese tradition we also find other concrete references, such as the following one, though it is mixed together with details that describe later cataclysms:

The pillars of heaven were shattered. The earth shook at its foundations. The northern skies descended lower and lower. The sun, the moon and the stars changed their course [their course appeared changed as a result of the tilting of the terrestrial axis]. The earth’s surface cracked and the waters contained in its belly gushed forward and inundated various countries. Man was in a state of rebellion against Heaven and the universe fell victim to chaos. The sun darkened. The planets changed their course [because of the abovementioned shift in perspective] and the great harmony of heaven was destroyed.

In any event, the freezing and the long night descended at a specific time on the polar region. Thus, when the forced migration from this seat ensued, the first cycle came to an end and a new cycle—the Atlantic cycle—began."

- Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

"Aryan texts from India, such as the Vedas and the Mahābhārata preserve the memory of the Arctic seat through astronomical and calendar-related allusions that cannot be understood other than through an actual reference to such a seat.⁴ in the Hindu tradition the term dvīpa, which means 'insular continent,' is often used to designate different cycles by virtue of a spatial transposition of a temporal notion (cycle = island). Now, in the doctrine of the dvīpa we find meaningful recollections of the Arctic seat, even though they are mixed with other things. The above mentioned Śveta-dvīpa ('Island of Splendor') was situated in the Far North; the Uttara-Kuru are often mentioned as an original Northern race that originated from Jambu-dvīpa, the 'polar' insular continent that is the first of the various dvīpa and, at the same time, the center of them all. Its memory is mixed with the memory of the Śaka-dvīpa, located in the 'white sea' or 'milky sea,' namely, the Arctic Sea, In this place no deviation from the law from above occurred. According to the Kūrmo Purāṇa, the seat of the solar Viṣṇu, symbolized by the 'polar cross' (the hooked cross or swastika), coincides with the Śveta-dvīpa that the Padma Parāna claims to be the homeland, located beyond anything connected with sathsaric fear and fret, of the great ascetics, the mahāyogi, and the 'children of Brahman' (the equivalent of the 'transcendent beings' who inhabited the northern regions, according to the Chinese tradition); these 'great souls' live by Hari, who is Viṣṇu himself, represented as 'blond' and 'golden' and living by a symbolic throne 'upheld by lions, which shines like the sun and radiates like fire.' These are variations on the theme of the 'Land of the Sun.' As a reflection of this, on a doctrinal plane the deva-yāna, which is the way leading to solar immortality and to superindividual states of being—as opposed to the way or a return to the mani or to the Mothers—was called the 'Way of the North': in Sanskrit, north (uttara) also means 'the most elevated, or supreme region.' Also, uttara-yāna (northern path) is the 'ascending' path followed by the sun between the winter and summer solstices.⁵ Among the Aryans from Iran we find more precise memories. Their original seat (Ariyana Vaego), created by the god of light and in which the 'glory' dwells and where the king Yima allegedly met Ahura Mazda, was a land situated in the Far North. The tradition of the Zend-Avesta relates that Yima was warned in advance of the approaching of 'final winters'⁶ and that the 'serpent of winter,' the pet of the god of darkness, Angra Mainyu, came upon Ariyana Vaego; then 'there were ten months of winter and two of summer,' and 'it was cold in the waters, on the earth, and frost covered the vegetation.'⁷ Ten months of winter and two months of summer: this is the climate of the Arctic regions."

- Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

⁴ G. B. Tilak. The Arctic Home in the Vedas: Being Also a New Key to the Interpretation of Many Vedic Texts and Legends (Poona, 1903).
⁵ In a Hindu rite (anjali), the homage paid to traditional texts is performed while facing north (The Laws of Manu 2.70), as if in memory of the place of origin of the transcendent wisdom contained in them. In Tibet, the north is believed to be the origin of a very ancient spiritual tradition, of which the magical formulas of the indigenous Bön religion allegedly are the degenerated residues.
⁶ Vendidad, 2.20.
⁷ Ibid., 1.3-4.