”The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort — "happiness". He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.”

— Oswald Spengler.

“We must be ready for a profound event in the divine order, toward which we are marching with an accelerated speed that must strike all observers. Terrible oracles already announce that the time has come.” - Joseph de Maistre, St. Petersburg dialogues

"Philosophy is merely an emanation of theology. Indeed, the Lord appears both in Scripture and in Nature." - St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Complete Works, V. 3, pp. 14-1

So in this revaluation of the ancient sacred Roman tradition which Julian attempted, what matters is the “esoteric” idea of nature of the “gods” and “knowledge” of them. Such knowledge signifies interior realization. From such a vantage the gods appear to be not poetic fictions or theologico-philosophastic abstractions, but rather symbols and projections of transcendental states of consciousness.

Thus Julian, who was himself an initiate of the Mithraic Mysteries, strictly associates a superior self-knowledge with the path which conducts to “knowledge of the gods” - an end so high, that he does not hesitate to say that dominion over all the lands, both Roman and barbarian, is nothing compared to it.

from Recognitions by Julius Evola

"It is possible to cause consciousness to pass from an individualized state (which is the condition of the body = ego ☉ as 'vulgar Gold') to a nonindividualized, unshaped state (Waters, Solvents, Mercury, etc.). The symbols of this process are liquefaction, fusion, dissolution, solution, separation, and so on. It is also possible to confront this transformation in two distinct ways: actively or passively, as dominator or dominated, either according to 🜍 or to ☾.

This alternative underscores the main differences between mysticism and initiation. In the first case a kind of indiscriminate, ecstatic nondifference appears as the goal, the point of arrival, and salvation. In the second case, conversely, the goal is a state in which an individualising power, the same ☉ principle already manifested in the human body as the 'I' hidden in the shadows, is reborn and reaffirmed."

- Julius Evola, The Hermetic Tradition

"In order to confirm definitely that the spirit of the hermetic achievement corresponds fully to this second possibility, an examination of the group of allegories in the literature that is concerned with symbolic connections between Mother and Son, Feminine and Masculine, will be decisive. We shall begin with the maxim of Philalethes that 'the fixed becomes volatile for a while in order to acquire a nobler quality the better to fix the same volatile again.' In this case the 'volatile'—equivalent to Mother, Woman, the Waters, the Moon, etc.—signifies the Spiritus Mundi, the universal life-force. The 'fixed'—which is the Son, the Male, Fire, Sun, Red Stone, etc.—on the other hand, signifies the ego, the personality, the Soul.

In general it is the unanimous opinion of all the hermetic philosophers that a 'mortification' must intervene: a dissolving in the Waters, a disappearance into the Mother's womb that devours or kills the son, a domination of the Female over the Male, of the Moon over the Sun, the volatile over the fixed, and so on; but all that is simply a provisional condition for returning potentiality to the son, to enable him to reaffirm himself again over what has previously dominated and 'dissolved' him, to make himself 'more perfect and greater than his parents.'"

- Julius Evola, The Hermetic Tradition

The truth is that the surviving Celtic elements were for the most
part assimilated by Christianity in the Middle Ages; the legend of
the ‘Holy Grail’, with all that it implies, is a particularly apt and
significant example of this. Moreover, we think that if a Western tradition could be rebuilt it would be bound to take on a religious
form in the strictest sense of this word, and that this form could
only be Christian; for on the one hand the other possible forms
have been too long foreign to the Western mentality, and on the
other it is only in Christianity— and we can say still more definitely
in Catholicism— that such remnants of a traditional spirit as still exist in the West are to be found.

Rene Guenon

Naturally for any traditional religion to take hold again in Europe or America it must come out of Christianity. This is a matter of simple practical reality separate from all personal bias. For an entirely new and separate religion to take hold in the 'West' would require the death of the 'West' as we know it.

Jünger tells of a visit by the Count of Champagne to the head of the Order of the Ismailis at the time of the Crusades. At a sign from his host, some knights threw themselves down from the top of a wall. Asked if his own Christian knights were capable of similar obedience and fealty, the Count replied in the negative.

As for the Order of the Ismailis, a specific point should be borne in mind: 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵, also had the value of discipline and was limited to the lower ranks of the initiatic hierarchy; once the individual will is eliminated, above the fourth degree, an absolutely contrary principle reigns, that of absolute freedom, so much so that someone once attributed the principle that “Nothing is true, everything is permitted” to the Ishmaelites.

~ Julius Evola

Maxim's of the Delphic Oracle in Greece:

Follow God (Επου θεω)
Obey the law (Νομω πειθου)
Worship the Gods (Θεους σεβου)
Respect your parents (Γονεις αιδου)
Be overcome by justice (Ηττω υπο δικαιου)
Know what you have learned (Γνωθι μαθων)
Perceive what you have heard (Ακουσας νοει)
Be (or Know) Yourself (Σαυτον ισθι)
Intend to get married (Γαμειν μελλε)
Know your opportunity (Καιρον γνωθι)
Think as a mortal (Φρονει θνητα)
If you are a stranger act like one (Ξepsilon;νος ωνισθι)
Honor the hearth (Εστιαν τιμα)
Control yourself (Αρχε σεαυτου)
Help your friends (Φιλοις βοηθει)
Control anger (Θυμου κρατει)
Exercise prudence (Φρονησιν ασκει)
Honour providence (Προνοιαν τιμα)
Do not use an oath (Ορκω μη χρω)
Love friendship (Φιλιαν αγαπα)
Cling to discipline (Παιδειας αντεχου)
Pursue honour (Δοξαν διωκε)
Long for wisdom (Σοφιαν ζηλου)
Praise the good (Καλον ευ λεγε)
Find fault with no one (Ψεγε μηδενα)
Praise virtue (Επαινει αρετην)
Practice what is just (Πραττε δικαια)
Be kind to friends (Θιλοις ευνοει)
Watch out for your enemies (Εχθρους αμυνου)
Exercise nobility of character (Ευγενειαν ασκει)
Shun evil (Κακιας απεχου)
Be impartial (Κοινος γινου)
Guard what is yours (Ιδια φυλαττε)
Shun what belongs to others (Αλλοτριων απεχου)
Listen to everyone (Ακουε παντα)
Be (religiously) silent (Ευφημος ιοθι)
Do a favour for a friend (Φιλω χαριζου)
Nothing to excess (Μηδεν αγαν)
Use time sparingly (Χρονου φειδου)
Foresee the future (Ορα το μελλον)
Despise insolence (Υβριν μισει)
Have respect for suppliants (Ικετας αιδου)
Be accommodating in everything (Παςιν αρμοζου)
Educate your sons (Υιους παιδευε)
Give what you have (Εχων χαριζου)
Fear deceit (Δολον φοβου)
Speak well of everyone (Ευλογει παντας)
Be a seeker of wisdom (Φιλοσοφος γινου)
Choose what is divine (Οσια κρινε)
Act when you know (Γνους πραττε)
Shun murder (Φονου απεχου)
Pray for things possible (Ευχου δυνατα)
Consult the wise (Σοφοις χρω)
Test the character (Ηθος δοκιμαζε)
Give back what you have received (Λαβων αποδος)
Down-look no one (Υφορω μηδενα)
Use your skill (Τεχνη χρω)
Do what you mean to do (Ο μελλεις, δος)
Honor a benefaction (Ευεργεςιας τιμα)
Be jealous of no one (Φθονει μηδενι)
Be on your guard (Φυλακη προσεχε)
Praise hope (Ελπιδα αινει)
Despise a slanderer (Διαβολην μισει)
Gain possessions justly (Δικαιως κτω)
Honor good men (Αγαθους τιμα)
Know the judge (Κριτην γνωθι)
Master wedding-feasts (Γαμους κρατει)
Recognize fortune (Τυχην νομιζε)
Flee a pledge (Εγγυην φευγε)
Speak plainly (Αμλως διαλεγου)
Associate with your peers (Ομοιοις χρω)
Govern your expenses (Δαπανων αρχου)
Be happy with what you have (Κτωμενος ηδου)
Rever a sense of shame (Αισχυνην σεβου)
Fulfill a favor (Χαριν εκτελει)
Pray for happiness (Ευτυχιαν ευχου)
Be fond of fortune (Τυχην στεργε)
Observe what you have heard (Ακουων ορα)
Work for what you can own (Εργαζου κτητα)
Despise strife (Εριν μισει)
Detest disgrace (Ονειδς εχθαιρε)
Restrain the tongue (Γλωτταν ισχε)
Keep yourself from insolence (Υβριν αμυνου)
Make just judgments (Κρινε δικαια)
Use what you have (Χρω χρημασιν)
Judge incorruptibly (Αδωροδοκητος δικαζε)
Accuse one who is present (Αιτιω παροντα)
Tell when you know (Λεγε ειδως)
Do not depend on strength (Βιας μη εχου)
Live without sorrow (Αλυπως βιου)
Live together meekly (Ομιλει πραως)
Finish the race without shrinking back (Περας επιτελει μη αποδειλιων))
Deal kindly with everyone (Φιλοφρονει πασιν)
Do not curse your sons (Υιοις μη καταρω)
Rule your wife (Γυναικος αρχε)
Benefit yourself (Σεαυτον ευ ποιει)
Be courteous (Ευπροσηγορος γινου)
Give a timely response (Αποκρινου εν καιρω)
Struggle with glory (Πονει μετ ευκλειας)
Act without relenting (Πραττε αμετανοητως)
Repent of sins (Αμαρτανων μετανοει)
Control the eye (Οφθαλμοθ κρατει)
Give a timely counsel (Βουλευου χρονω)
Act quickly (Πραττε συντομως)