Two hours later we reach the mountain refuge, Gnifetti. We had left there, for our return, two very different and yet complementary things, a bottle of White Horse whiskey and a text of warrior asceticism, the Bhagavadgita.

[Julius Evola, Meditations on the Peaks]

He whose Self is satisfied with knowledge and wisdom, who remains unshaken, who has conquered his senses, who looks upon a lump of earth, a stone and gold with an equal eye - he is said to be a Saint.

- Bhagavad Gita

"Nothing is more appropriate to favour a warrior morality of the highest rank than the formidable view of a world in uninterrupted revolt. But now the question arises of the legitimation of a special and necessary, yet by no means willed, relationship to power, a relationship which can also be defined as “mission”. It is precisely this legitimation which allows a being to appear no longer as purely elemental, but as historical power. The degree of legitimation determines the degree of dominion which can be achieved by the will to power. Dominion we call a condition in which the boundless space of power is referred to a single point from which it appears as a space of justice.
The pure will to power, by contrast, possesses just as little legitimacy as the will to faith – what is expressed in these two attitudes, into which romanticism itself divides, is not the feeling of plenitude, but that of deficiency."
~ Ernst Jünger, The Worker

It is the night before, perhaps in between, the end of an old and dying world and the beginning of a new and gestating one. In Germany and other places this night bears the name of the Saint who has this day as his feast day, that of St. Pope Silvester I.

The editor of Globus Cruciger would like to thank our readers for a wonderful year, with many hints of things to come in the future. This year has no doubt been a strange one, of many evils, but as always also with a graceful handful of good. We hope that our readers will take this opportunity to think and act in accordance with their convictions, as I myself intend to continue doing, and we would also like to extend a greeting and a thanks to all of our friends on this and other platforms, many of whom we have had the pleasure of meeting in the year that has been.

Happy New Years Eve and a happy Silvester's Night to you all. May God bless the new year of Our Lord Jesus Christ, son of God and of Mary Queen of Heaven. Let us work and pray dutifully and with determination moving forwards. Amen.

De Francisci, makes a very appropriate morphological distinction, that between culture and civilization. Culture, both as an intellectual phenomenon and as a refinement of the material conditions of life of a people, has nothing to do with civilization, a much deeper reality:

"Civilization is not only a manifestation of mainly intellectual activities - says De Francisci – but a complex and concrete expression of all the energies of the spirit:

it is not only dominion of man over external nature, but at the same time lordship of man over his own human nature, consciousness of coordination with other men, of subordination to a certain order of hierarchies, of dependence on a supreme, divine power transcendent".

It is a unitary and organic construction, which however, in order to be such, also affects the political field, that is, it also presupposes a political organization as the creator and proclaimer of the fundamental values ​​at the basis of that same organism.

~ Evola, “Vita Italiana”

“Extended practice of rituals nurtures our intellect, enlarges very greatly our soul’s receptivity to the gods, reveals to men the life of the gods, accustoms their eyes to the brightness of divine light, and gradually brings to perfection the capacity of our facilities for contact with the gods, until it leads us up to the highest level of consciousness and, in a word, it renders those who employ rituals, if we may express it, the familiar consorts of the gods.”

Iamblichus

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
(3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973)