Forwarded from Acroaticus Atlas Aryanis
...continued
"Its use even tore aside the Veil of Isis to the extent that a glimpse of the face of the goddess might be caught. Just as a knowledge of the Principles of Geometry enables man to measure distant suns and their movements, while seated in his observatory, so a knowledge of the Principle of Correspondence enables Man to reason intelligently from the Known to the Unknown.
Studying the monad, he understands the archangel."
-The Kybalion
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"Its use even tore aside the Veil of Isis to the extent that a glimpse of the face of the goddess might be caught. Just as a knowledge of the Principles of Geometry enables man to measure distant suns and their movements, while seated in his observatory, so a knowledge of the Principle of Correspondence enables Man to reason intelligently from the Known to the Unknown.
Studying the monad, he understands the archangel."
-The Kybalion
@esotericatlantean
Forwarded from Acroaticus Atlas Aryanis
PART SEVEN
3. The Principle of Vibration
"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates."
"This Principle embodies the truth that "everything is in motion"; "everything vibrates"; "nothing is at rest"; facts which Modern Science endorses, and which each new scientific discovery tends to verify.
And yet this Hermetic Principle was enunciated thousands of years ago, by the Masters of Ancient Egypt.
This Principle explains that the differences between different manifestations of Matter, Energy, Mind, and even Spirit, result largely from varying rates of Vibration.
From THE ALL, which is Pure Spirit, down to the grossest form of Matter, all is in vibration--the higher the vibration, the higher the position in the scale.
The vibration of Spirit is at such an infinite rate of intensity and rapidity that it is practically at rest--just as a rapidly moving wheel seems to be motionless.
...
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3. The Principle of Vibration
"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates."
"This Principle embodies the truth that "everything is in motion"; "everything vibrates"; "nothing is at rest"; facts which Modern Science endorses, and which each new scientific discovery tends to verify.
And yet this Hermetic Principle was enunciated thousands of years ago, by the Masters of Ancient Egypt.
This Principle explains that the differences between different manifestations of Matter, Energy, Mind, and even Spirit, result largely from varying rates of Vibration.
From THE ALL, which is Pure Spirit, down to the grossest form of Matter, all is in vibration--the higher the vibration, the higher the position in the scale.
The vibration of Spirit is at such an infinite rate of intensity and rapidity that it is practically at rest--just as a rapidly moving wheel seems to be motionless.
...
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Forwarded from Acroaticus Atlas Aryanis
...continued
"And at the other end of the scale, there are gross forms of matter whose vibrations are so low as to seem at rest. Between these poles, there are millions upon millions of varying degrees of vibration. From corpuscle and electron, atom and molecule, to worlds and universes, everything is in vibratory motion.
This is also true on the planes of energy and force (which are but varying degrees of vibration); and also on the mental planes (whose states depend upon vibrations); and even on to the spiritual planes.
An understanding of this Principle, with the appropriate formulas, enables Hermetic students to control their own mental vibrations as well as those of others.
The Masters also apply this Principle to the conquering of Natural phenomena, in various ways.
"He who understands the Principle of Vibration, has grasped the scepter of power," says one of the old writers."
-The Kybalion
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"And at the other end of the scale, there are gross forms of matter whose vibrations are so low as to seem at rest. Between these poles, there are millions upon millions of varying degrees of vibration. From corpuscle and electron, atom and molecule, to worlds and universes, everything is in vibratory motion.
This is also true on the planes of energy and force (which are but varying degrees of vibration); and also on the mental planes (whose states depend upon vibrations); and even on to the spiritual planes.
An understanding of this Principle, with the appropriate formulas, enables Hermetic students to control their own mental vibrations as well as those of others.
The Masters also apply this Principle to the conquering of Natural phenomena, in various ways.
"He who understands the Principle of Vibration, has grasped the scepter of power," says one of the old writers."
-The Kybalion
@esotericatlantean
Forwarded from Acroaticus Atlas Aryanis
PART EIGHT
4. The Principle of Polarity
"Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."
-The Kybalion.
"This Principle embodies the truth that "everything is dual"; "everything has two poles"; "everything has its pair of opposites," all of which were old Hermetic axioms.
It explains the old paradoxes, that have perplexed so many, which have been stated as follows:
"Thesis and antithesis are identical in nature, but different in degree"; "opposites are the same, differing only in degree"; "the pairs of opposites may be reconciled"; "extremes meet"; "everything is and isn't, at the same time"; "all truths are but half-truths"; "every truth is half-false"; "there are two sides to everything," etc., etc., etc. "
...
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4. The Principle of Polarity
"Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."
-The Kybalion.
"This Principle embodies the truth that "everything is dual"; "everything has two poles"; "everything has its pair of opposites," all of which were old Hermetic axioms.
It explains the old paradoxes, that have perplexed so many, which have been stated as follows:
"Thesis and antithesis are identical in nature, but different in degree"; "opposites are the same, differing only in degree"; "the pairs of opposites may be reconciled"; "extremes meet"; "everything is and isn't, at the same time"; "all truths are but half-truths"; "every truth is half-false"; "there are two sides to everything," etc., etc., etc. "
...
@esotericatlantean
Forwarded from Acroaticus Atlas Aryanis
...continued
"It explains that in everything there are two poles, or opposite aspects, and that "opposites" are really only the two extremes of the same thing, with many varying degrees between them.
To illustrate: Heat and Cold, although "opposites," are really the same thing, the differences consisting merely of degrees of the same thing. Look at your thermometer and see if you can discover where "heat" terminates and "cold" begins! There is no such thing as "absolute heat" or "absolute cold"--the two terms "heat" and "cold" simply indicate varying degrees of the same thing, and that "same thing" which manifests as "heat" and "cold" is merely a form, variety, and rate of Vibration.
So "heat" and "cold" are simply the "two poles" of that which we call "Heat"--and the phenomena attendant thereupon are manifestations of the Principle of Polarity. The same Principle manifests in the case of "Light and Darkness," which are the same thing, the difference consisting of varying degrees between the two poles of the phenomena. Where does "darkness" leave off, and "light" begin?
What is the difference between "Large and Small"?
Between "Hard and Soft"?
Between "Black and White"?
Between "Sharp and Dull"?
Between "Noise and Quiet"?
Between "High and Low"?
Between "Positive and Negative"?
...
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"It explains that in everything there are two poles, or opposite aspects, and that "opposites" are really only the two extremes of the same thing, with many varying degrees between them.
To illustrate: Heat and Cold, although "opposites," are really the same thing, the differences consisting merely of degrees of the same thing. Look at your thermometer and see if you can discover where "heat" terminates and "cold" begins! There is no such thing as "absolute heat" or "absolute cold"--the two terms "heat" and "cold" simply indicate varying degrees of the same thing, and that "same thing" which manifests as "heat" and "cold" is merely a form, variety, and rate of Vibration.
So "heat" and "cold" are simply the "two poles" of that which we call "Heat"--and the phenomena attendant thereupon are manifestations of the Principle of Polarity. The same Principle manifests in the case of "Light and Darkness," which are the same thing, the difference consisting of varying degrees between the two poles of the phenomena. Where does "darkness" leave off, and "light" begin?
What is the difference between "Large and Small"?
Between "Hard and Soft"?
Between "Black and White"?
Between "Sharp and Dull"?
Between "Noise and Quiet"?
Between "High and Low"?
Between "Positive and Negative"?
...
@esotericatlantean
Forwarded from Acroaticus Atlas Aryanis
...continued
"The Principle of Polarity explains these paradoxes, and no other Principle can supersede it. The same Principle operates on the Mental Plane.
Let us take a radical and extreme example--that of "Love and Hate," two mental states apparently totally different. And yet there are degrees of Hate and degrees of Love, and a middle point in which we use the terms "Like or Dislike," which shade into each other so gradually that sometimes we are at a loss to know whether we "like" or "dislike" or "neither." And all are simply degrees of the same thing, as you will see if you will but think a moment.
And, more than this (and considered of more importance by the Hermetists), it is possible to change the vibrations of Hate to the vibrations of Love, in one's own mind, and in the minds of others. Many of you, who read these lines, have had personal experiences of the involuntary rapid transition from Love to Hate, and the reverse, in your own case and that of others. And you will therefore realize the possibility of this being accomplished by the use of the Will, by means of the Hermetic formulas. "Good and Evil" are but the poles of the same thing, and the Hermetist understands the art of transmuting Evil into Good, by means of an application of the Principle of Polarity.
In short, the "Art of Polarization" becomes a phase of "Mental Alchemy" known and practiced by the ancient and modern Hermetic Masters.
An understanding of the Principle will enable one to change his own Polarity, as well as that of others, if he will devote the time and study necessary to master the art."
-The Kybalion
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"The Principle of Polarity explains these paradoxes, and no other Principle can supersede it. The same Principle operates on the Mental Plane.
Let us take a radical and extreme example--that of "Love and Hate," two mental states apparently totally different. And yet there are degrees of Hate and degrees of Love, and a middle point in which we use the terms "Like or Dislike," which shade into each other so gradually that sometimes we are at a loss to know whether we "like" or "dislike" or "neither." And all are simply degrees of the same thing, as you will see if you will but think a moment.
And, more than this (and considered of more importance by the Hermetists), it is possible to change the vibrations of Hate to the vibrations of Love, in one's own mind, and in the minds of others. Many of you, who read these lines, have had personal experiences of the involuntary rapid transition from Love to Hate, and the reverse, in your own case and that of others. And you will therefore realize the possibility of this being accomplished by the use of the Will, by means of the Hermetic formulas. "Good and Evil" are but the poles of the same thing, and the Hermetist understands the art of transmuting Evil into Good, by means of an application of the Principle of Polarity.
In short, the "Art of Polarization" becomes a phase of "Mental Alchemy" known and practiced by the ancient and modern Hermetic Masters.
An understanding of the Principle will enable one to change his own Polarity, as well as that of others, if he will devote the time and study necessary to master the art."
-The Kybalion
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Forwarded from Acroaticus Atlas Aryanis
PART NINE
5. The Principle of Rhythm
"Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides;
all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates."
-The Kybalion.
"This Principle embodies the truth that in everything there is manifested a measured motion, to and fro; a flow and inflow; a swing backward and forward; a pendulum-like movement; a tide-like ebb and flow; a high-tide and low-tide; between the two poles which exist in accordance with the Principle of Polarity described a moment ago.
There is always an action and a reaction; an advance and a retreat; a rising and a sinking. This is in the affairs of the Universe, suns, worlds, men, animals, mind, energy, and matter. This law is manifest in the creation and destruction of worlds; in the rise and fall of nations; in the life of all things; and finally in the mental states of Man... "
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5. The Principle of Rhythm
"Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides;
all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates."
-The Kybalion.
"This Principle embodies the truth that in everything there is manifested a measured motion, to and fro; a flow and inflow; a swing backward and forward; a pendulum-like movement; a tide-like ebb and flow; a high-tide and low-tide; between the two poles which exist in accordance with the Principle of Polarity described a moment ago.
There is always an action and a reaction; an advance and a retreat; a rising and a sinking. This is in the affairs of the Universe, suns, worlds, men, animals, mind, energy, and matter. This law is manifest in the creation and destruction of worlds; in the rise and fall of nations; in the life of all things; and finally in the mental states of Man... "
@esotericatlantean
Forwarded from Acroaticus Atlas Aryanis
...continued
"(and it is with this latter that the Hermetists find the understanding of the Principle most important).
The Hermetists have grasped this Principle, finding its universal application, and have also discovered certain means to overcome its effects in themselves by the use of the appropriate formulas and methods.
They apply the Mental Law of Neutralization. They cannot annul the Principle, or cause it to cease its operation, but they have learned how to escape its effects upon themselves to a certain degree depending upon the Mastery of the Principle.
They have learned how to USE it, instead of being USED BY it. In this and similar methods, consist the Art of the Hermetists. The Master of Hermetics polarizes himself at the point at which he desires to rest, and then neutralizes the Rhythmic swing of the pendulum which would tend to carry him to the other pole.
All individuals who have attained any degree of Self-Mastery do this to a certain degree, more or less unconsciously, but the Master does this consciously, and by the use of his Will, and attains a degree of Poise and Mental Firmness almost impossible of belief on the part of the masses who are swung backward and forward like a pendulum.
This Principle and that of Polarity have been closely studied by the Hermetists, and the methods of counteracting, neutralizing, and USING them form an important part of the Hermetic Mental Alchemy."
-The Kybalion
@esotericatlantean
"(and it is with this latter that the Hermetists find the understanding of the Principle most important).
The Hermetists have grasped this Principle, finding its universal application, and have also discovered certain means to overcome its effects in themselves by the use of the appropriate formulas and methods.
They apply the Mental Law of Neutralization. They cannot annul the Principle, or cause it to cease its operation, but they have learned how to escape its effects upon themselves to a certain degree depending upon the Mastery of the Principle.
They have learned how to USE it, instead of being USED BY it. In this and similar methods, consist the Art of the Hermetists. The Master of Hermetics polarizes himself at the point at which he desires to rest, and then neutralizes the Rhythmic swing of the pendulum which would tend to carry him to the other pole.
All individuals who have attained any degree of Self-Mastery do this to a certain degree, more or less unconsciously, but the Master does this consciously, and by the use of his Will, and attains a degree of Poise and Mental Firmness almost impossible of belief on the part of the masses who are swung backward and forward like a pendulum.
This Principle and that of Polarity have been closely studied by the Hermetists, and the methods of counteracting, neutralizing, and USING them form an important part of the Hermetic Mental Alchemy."
-The Kybalion
@esotericatlantean
Forwarded from Acroaticus Atlas Aryanis
PART TEN
6. The Principle of Cause and Effect
"Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law."
-The Kybalion.
"This Principle embodies the fact that there is a Cause for every Effect; an Effect from every Cause. It explains that: "Everything Happens according to Law"; that nothing ever "merely happens"; that there is no such thing as Chance; that while there are various planes of Cause and Effect, the higher dominating the lower planes, still nothing ever entirely escapes the Law.
The Hermetists understand the art and methods of rising above the ordinary plane of Cause and Effect, to a certain degree, and by mentally rising to a higher plane they become Causers instead of Effects..."
@esotericatlantean
6. The Principle of Cause and Effect
"Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law."
-The Kybalion.
"This Principle embodies the fact that there is a Cause for every Effect; an Effect from every Cause. It explains that: "Everything Happens according to Law"; that nothing ever "merely happens"; that there is no such thing as Chance; that while there are various planes of Cause and Effect, the higher dominating the lower planes, still nothing ever entirely escapes the Law.
The Hermetists understand the art and methods of rising above the ordinary plane of Cause and Effect, to a certain degree, and by mentally rising to a higher plane they become Causers instead of Effects..."
@esotericatlantean
Forwarded from Acroaticus Atlas Aryanis
...continued
"The masses of people are carried along, obedient to environment; the wills and desires of others stronger than themselves; heredity; suggestion; and other outward causes moving them about like pawns on the Chessboard of Life.
But the Masters, rising to the plane above, dominate their moods, characters, qualities, and powers, as well as the environment surrounding them, and become Movers instead of pawns.
They help to PLAY THE GAME OF LIFE, instead of being played and moved about by other wills and environment. They USE the Principle instead of being its tools. The Masters obey the Causation of the higher planes, but they help to RULE on their own plane. In this statement there is condensed a wealth of Hermetic knowledge--let him read who can."
-The Kybalion
@esotericatlantean
"The masses of people are carried along, obedient to environment; the wills and desires of others stronger than themselves; heredity; suggestion; and other outward causes moving them about like pawns on the Chessboard of Life.
But the Masters, rising to the plane above, dominate their moods, characters, qualities, and powers, as well as the environment surrounding them, and become Movers instead of pawns.
They help to PLAY THE GAME OF LIFE, instead of being played and moved about by other wills and environment. They USE the Principle instead of being its tools. The Masters obey the Causation of the higher planes, but they help to RULE on their own plane. In this statement there is condensed a wealth of Hermetic knowledge--let him read who can."
-The Kybalion
@esotericatlantean
Forwarded from Acroaticus Atlas Aryanis
PART ELEVEN
7. The Principle of Gender
"Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine
and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes."
-The Kybalion.
"This Principle embodies the truth that there is GENDER manifested in everything--the Masculine and Feminine Principles ever at work. This is true not only of the Physical Plane, but of the Mental and even the Spiritual Planes.
On the Physical Plane, the Principle manifests as SEX, on the higher planes it takes higher forms, but the Principle is ever the same.
No creation, physical, mental or spiritual, is possible without this Principle...."
@esotericatlantean
7. The Principle of Gender
"Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine
and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes."
-The Kybalion.
"This Principle embodies the truth that there is GENDER manifested in everything--the Masculine and Feminine Principles ever at work. This is true not only of the Physical Plane, but of the Mental and even the Spiritual Planes.
On the Physical Plane, the Principle manifests as SEX, on the higher planes it takes higher forms, but the Principle is ever the same.
No creation, physical, mental or spiritual, is possible without this Principle...."
@esotericatlantean
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Forwarded from Acroaticus Atlas Aryanis
...continued
"An understanding of its laws will throw light on many a subject that has perplexed the minds of men. The Principle of Gender works ever in the direction of generation, regeneration, and creation.
Everything, and every person, contains the two Elements or Principles, or this great Principle, within it, him or her. Every Male thing has the Female Element also; every Female contains also the Male Principle.
If you would understand the philosophy of Mental and Spiritual Creation, Generation, and Re-generation, you must understand and study this Hermetic Principle. It contains the solution of many mysteries of Life.
We caution you that this Principle has no reference to the many base, pernicious and degrading lustful theories, teachings and practices, which are taught under fanciful noscripts, and which are a prostitution of the great natural principle of Gender.
Such base revivals of the ancient infamous forms of Phallicism tend to ruin mind, body and soul, and the Hermetic Philosophy has ever sounded the warning note against these degraded teachings which tend toward lust, licentiousness, and perversion of Nature's principles.
If you seek such teachings, you must go elsewhere for them--Hermeticism contains nothing for you along these lines.
To the pure, all things are pure; to the base, all things are base."
-The Kybalion
@esotericatlantean
"An understanding of its laws will throw light on many a subject that has perplexed the minds of men. The Principle of Gender works ever in the direction of generation, regeneration, and creation.
Everything, and every person, contains the two Elements or Principles, or this great Principle, within it, him or her. Every Male thing has the Female Element also; every Female contains also the Male Principle.
If you would understand the philosophy of Mental and Spiritual Creation, Generation, and Re-generation, you must understand and study this Hermetic Principle. It contains the solution of many mysteries of Life.
We caution you that this Principle has no reference to the many base, pernicious and degrading lustful theories, teachings and practices, which are taught under fanciful noscripts, and which are a prostitution of the great natural principle of Gender.
Such base revivals of the ancient infamous forms of Phallicism tend to ruin mind, body and soul, and the Hermetic Philosophy has ever sounded the warning note against these degraded teachings which tend toward lust, licentiousness, and perversion of Nature's principles.
If you seek such teachings, you must go elsewhere for them--Hermeticism contains nothing for you along these lines.
To the pure, all things are pure; to the base, all things are base."
-The Kybalion
@esotericatlantean
Forwarded from Esoteric Dixie Dharma
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.
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.
Forwarded from Esoteric Dixie Dharma
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 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.
Forwarded from European Tribalism - Mythology, European culture, survival
'A tradition has been handed down by the ancient thinkers of very early times to the effect that these heavenly bodies are gods. The rest of their tradition has been added later in a mythological form to influence the vulgar.'
- Aristotle, Metaphysics
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- Aristotle, Metaphysics
@EuropeanTribalism
Forwarded from Imperium Press (Imperium Press)
The first and perhaps the only source of all the ills we experience is contempt for antiquity, or, what amounts to the same thing, contempt for experience.
- Maistre
- Maistre
Forwarded from IMPERIVM
“Culture is the activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God’s earth.”
~Alfred North Whitehead
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~Alfred North Whitehead
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Forwarded from Acroaticus Atlas Aryanis
"...and to the noble, all things are noble, and to the base, all things are base."
Forwarded from IMPERIVM
“We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.”
~Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
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~Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
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Forwarded from Corpse World Monologues
On general purpose:
Whenever discerning whether a concept or action are Righteous in the Eyes of God, one must consider ONLY the following: it's Teleological value. Always ask yourself, "Is this teleologically sound?" For every righteous thing has an end goal and a purpose, and every Satanic inversion presents us with a falsehood of "randomness and nothingness."
Understand that only concepts which have constructive conclusions may yield constructive conclusions. All other things are Profane.Forwarded from IMPERIVM
"We have been given so many excellences, so many skills, and a mind, moreover, which can penetrate anything with the force of its application, swifter than the stars whose courses, many centuries hence, it anticipates. And what a wealth of harvests we have, of riches, of treasures one piled up on top of the other. You may go round all creation and, finding nothing which in its entirety you would rather be, pick out from everything individual gifts which you would like to have – if you make a true judgment of Nature’s kindness, you must confess that you are her favourite. The fact is that we have been, and are, dearest to the immortal gods. They have bestowed the greatest honour possible on us by placing us next to them. Much we had given to us. We had no room for more."
~Seneca
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~Seneca
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