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Here we go - our first real attempt at shaking off the rust. We trust that you’ll find it stimulating.

Julius Evola is not just Giovanni Gentile, but vaguely more ‘spiritual’ - whatever that means.

So many reduce his thought to mere political analysis or rationalized comparative mythology.

The basic impulse is to say “if I stand by this doctrine, I will be Trad”.

Likewise, we are often asked for a rite or a religion that will assist someone in finally becoming ‘spiritual’.

We’ve done that before - we’ve tried to help out ... but the result was just the same.

“If I stand by this doctrine, I will be religious”.

The problem at hand is not one of doctrine, we have the doctrines readily available - it is your totally undeveloped inner dimension.

As long as you remain on the philosophic, abstract, and rational level - you will never come to the self realization that you’re looking for.

Within you, there exists something behind thought, beyond rational thinking. Nevertheless, this “non-rational” part of yourself, is not irrational - as men like Schopenhauer would have us believe.

You are not a plaything of irrational forces. No; he who achieves full self possession of the non-rational, experiences himself as the author & master of these forces.

The total mastery of these forces is freedom. Freedom from spontaneity & thus from ignorance.

You see, the world is the representation of that inner master. Whatever “spontaneousness” you see in the world, is the result of a disconnect between your rational self & this non-rational, higher self.

The technical term we use for this disconnect is - a privation. It is a lacking, a void that we foolishly attempt to fill with desire & dogma.

In fact. Most of the world lives in pure spontaneity. They look around and believe there to be a real world, which impedes on their consciousness & which is the source of their representation of the world.

We won’t rehash Kant - but Kant pulverizes that naïveté.

But - most people do not know better. They live their lives as passive receptors, restricted to the “realism” of the physical world of spontaneity.

Just watch CNN - they truly believe they are reporting the “facts”, uncontaminated by the projection of their own Dasein (as Heidegger would call it).

Dasein is “being there” - which, for ease of understanding, we will define as the rooted man.

Yes, even Modern Libtards are rooted. They are filled with biases unique to our age & to their individual experiences in life.

They are so rooted, that when confronted with differing worldview, they begin convulsing and launching a literal moral crusade against the the “vulgar inhumanity” of those who do not share their biases.

These people do not know better, as they are not self-aware. They are truly NPC’s. They have no conscious awareness.

We, instead - take possession of our own representation, with full awareness that we have freely chosen it.

As mentioned - Julius Evola is not merely Giovani Gentile but more ‘spiritual’.

And by that, you initially may have thought we were referring to their political projects - Fascism & Traditional Political Systems.

But the political thought of both these men was not primary in their thought - but the necessary byproduct. It is a secondary outcome.

Giovanni Gentile was first and foremost a philosophical Idealist; his own contribution to the school was “Actual Idealism”.

Julius Evola was also an Idealist at heart - his contribution was known as “Magical Idealism”.

We aren’t going to get into the weeds on Idealism, except to say that Gentile’s Actual Idealism is wrong & Evola’s Magical Idealism is right.

The fruit of each Idealist system, can be seen in the aforementioned derivatives of such thought - their political systems.

Gentiles Fascism is Actual Idealism in practice - and it is deeply flawed.

Evola then, is not Gentile plus some vague spirituality.

He is rather Gentile minus Privation.

So you ask us “what system of magic”, “what religion”, “what philosophy”.

Our only answer is - you must look past the secondary nature of these dogmas, to arrive at the essence of them.

You must come to know the non-rational author of your life; the solution is not in giving yourself to passive mysticism like those lost either in the privation of irrational faith or rational phenomena.

Traditional civilization is the projection of the consciousness of the interior authors of the true, self-aware elite, into the external world.

The accumulation of dogmatic facts & knowledge is not the important thing, but rather - the deepening of consciousness. The destruction of privation.

How could we ourselves “follow” a religion? How could we be satisfied with attaining Heaven through a moral life?

We are not to become moral men, but Gods.

It is necessary to cleanse oneself of the low - and the high. To reduce the Will to its absolute naked essence, that it only has itself to rely on.

Evola tells us a helpful Hindu story.

A disciple asked a spiritual teacher, while they were bathing in the river when he would finally be able to realize Brahman.

The teacher, instead of answering, pushed his head underwater and held him down, until feeling himself drowning, the student freed himself and re-emerged.

The teacher then explained when the desire in you to realize Brahman becomes as intense and deep as how you were just driven to reassert your physical life, only then will you achieve satisfaction.

That expresses the whole magical development. As long as the will and the desire to realize oneself remains in mental shadows, as long as it does not equal, by penetrating into all ones being, the intensity of that obscure and nonrational power that is asserted at the core of our organism, there is no point in expecting any concrete result.

Man cannot improve himself by means of ideas or reasoning; what he needs is to be organized and therefore to organize himself.

So, going forward - if we recommend some spiritual practice to you - please know that our primary purpose for doing so, is not evangelical. We are giving you a tool.

That’s what religion is - a secondary tool, towards the primary goal of reconnecting your consciousness with divinity.

Use what works, discard the rest.

"There will be Kantians, unwilling to have anything to do with piety even in the world of appearance, who, with axe and sword, will mercilessly tear up the soil of our European life in order to destroy the past to its very roots. Armed Fichteans will come onto the scene, who, with fanatic will, will be untamable by self-interest or fear; for they live in the spirit, they defy matter just like the first Christians, who also could not be defeated either through bodily torment or bodily enjoyment. Indeed, such transcendental idealists would be even more inflexible in a social upheaval than the first Christians, since the latter bore earthly torment in order to achieve heavenly bliss later, whereas the transcendental idealist considers martyrdom itself to be mere appearance and is unreachable in the fortification of his own thought."
- Heine

"When around one everything has become silent, solemn as a clear, starlit night, when the soul comes to be alone in the whole world, then before one there appears, not an extraordinary human being, but the eternal power itself, then the heavens open, and the I chooses itself or, more correctly, receives itself. Then the personality receives the accolade of knighthood that ennobles it for an eternity." - Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

A subtle reading of Fear and Trembling will reveal that the Knight of Faith is the individual who acts, and it is the acting that is important to Kierkegaard. We can untether the Knight of Faith from Kierkegaard's strongly Christian / Protestant framework rather easily and, in so doing, find something of Evola's "differentiated" man. The Knight of Faith acts, venturing everything, on the spiritual. He is not merely a theorizer, but an actor. Kierkegaard uses Abraham as an example. In the Jewish context, Abraham submitting to God's order to kill his son Isaac is about God's staying hand and the mercy to not deprive Abraham of his beloved son. However, for Kierkegaard it is not the staying hand of God that is important, but the will to act on divine command.

Nietzsche states that God is dead. Evola, takes this as true, with a slight modification, stating that the God of petty morality is dead. Evola writes that the differentiated man acts not on morality, but on self-determined will, a will that is striving for unity of Self. We can take the Knight of Faith and look at it as the individual who acts from the "Being", undisturbed by "others' weal and woe" and by the honours that may be granted to him by a society that has dissolved the traditional means of self-realisation.

If we look on the Self as predetermined "that is in a way timeless, precosmic, and prenatal, and connected with it the concept of one’s “own nature” (the Hindu svadharma, the “original face” of Far Eastern philosophy)" (Evola, Ride The Tiger), then we can justify - within limits - a certain "fidelity to oneself, self-election, and responsibility." Action, like that taken by Kierkegaard's Knight of Faith, I argue, is the way in which the essence that contains the potential realisable in human existence, it is to act out of authenticity, which leads to the "profound unity with oneself" (Evola, Ride The Tiger).

"It is only in an individualistically disintegrated society that the aesthetically productive subject could shift the intellectual center into itself, only in a bourgeois world that isolates the individual in the domain of the intellectual, makes the individual its own point of reference, and imposes upon it the entire burden that otherwise was hierarchically distributed among different functions in a social order. In this society, it is left to the private individual to be his own priest. But not only that. Because of the central significance and consistency of the religious, it is also left to him to be his own poet, his own philosopher, his own king, and his own master builder in the cathedral of his personality. The ultimate roots of romanticism and the romantic phenomenon lie in the private priesthood. If we consider the situation from aspects such as these, then we should not always focus only on the good-natured pastoralists. On the contrary, we must also see the despair that lies behind the romantic movement — regardless of whether this despair becomes lyrically enraptured with God and the world on a sweet, moonlit night, utters a lament as the world-weariness and the sickness of the century, pessimistically lacerates itself, or frenetically plunges into the abyss of instinct and life. We must see the three persons whose deformed visages penetrate the colorful romantic veil: Byron, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche, the three high priests, and at the same time the three sacrificial victims, of this private priesthood."
- Carl Schmitt

"There is no such thing as a reality "beyond" another reality but rather, different means of experiencing one unique thing. The material, the phenomenological domain is a projection of the immaterial one. Whenever a man changes his state of being he will eventually perceive reality in different forms. It is therefore like the radio: one can change the tuner to different positions, and other channels will be percieved. So no such thing exists as a relative world and absolute world, but rather relative eyes and absolute eyes." - Julius C. Evola

"In China, only the patricians practiced the rites (yi-li), while the plebeians merely had customs (su). There is a Chinese saying: 'The rites are not the legacy of ordinary people,' which corresponds to the famous saying of Appius Claudius: 'Auspicia sunt patrum.' A Latin expression characterized the plebeians as gentum non habent: people who have no rites nor ancestors. This is why in ancient Rome the patricians viewed the plebeians' lifestyle and sexual coupling as similar to that of wild animals (more ferarum). Thus, the supernatural element was the foundation of the idea of a traditional patriciate and of legitimate royalty: what constituted an ancient aristocrat was not merely a biological legacy or a racial selection, but rather a sacred tradition."

- Julius Evola in Revolt Against the Modern World

"It was not in this sense that the plebeian was said to lack ancestors: the true principle of the differentiation between patricians and plebeians was that the ancestors of the plebeian and of the slave were not "divine ancestors" (divi parentes) like the ancestors of the patrician stocks. No transcendent quality or "form" entrusted to a rigorous and secret ritual tradition was transmitted to them through the blood. The plebeians lacked that power through which the members of the priestly class (as was the case in the ancient classical world, in ancient Northern and Germanic races, in the Far East, and so on). The plebeian did not have the privilege of the second birth that characterized the arya (the noble) and the Manudharmasastra does not hesitate to say that even an arya is not superior to the sudra until he has been born again. The plebeians were not purified by any of the three heavenly fires that in ancient Iran were believed to act as occult souls of the three higher castes in the empire. The plebeians also lacked the 'solar' element that in ancient Peru characterized the race of the Incas. The plebeians' promiscuity had no limits; they had no true cult of their own, and in a higher sense they had no founding father (patrum ciere non possunt). Therefore the plebeians' religion could not help but have a collective and chthonic character. In India their religion was characterized by frenzied and ecstatic forms more or less connected to the substratum of pre-Aryan races. In the Mediterranean civilizations, the plebeians' religion was characterized by the cult of mothers and by subterranean forces instead of the luminous forms of the heroic and Olympian tradition. The plebeians, who in ancient Rome were called 'children of the Earth,' had a religious devotion to the feminine deities of the earth. Even in China, the official aristocratic religion stood in contrast with the practices of those who were often called 'obsessed' (ling-pao), and with the popular cults of a Mongolian and shamanic type."

- Julius Evola in Revolt Against the Modern World

Evola makes abundantly clear the absolute importance of the initiation and the sacred rite, things all too absent in modernity. The initiation into a secret society is that 'second birth' that totally and truly changes a person. Sincerity and self-sacrifice are the keys to becoming virtuous in the first place, but the initiation is the highest form of both sincere and self-sacrificial action, and therefore the highest form of pursuing virtue. The key to any secret societies (be they cults or brotherhoods or aristocracies) is the magical rite. The sacred rituals must be undeniably true to Tradition and performed by only those masters to whom the duty is bestowed by Tradition itself. Whatever their form, the true rite channels and inspires energies of the highest (spiritual, ideal) forms, and is in fact necessary to channel those at all.

Understanding this, one can hardly wonder why spirituality is in its modern crisis. Modern religions have for the most part lost the sacred nature of their rituals, especially the total and truly life-changing initiation that not only makes one 'born again' but is necessary to truly become a part of any true faith. These considerations must be a part of any attempt to re-invigorate spirituality. Any attempt to build or reinvigorate a spiritual discipline must include the features of real initiation and sacred rites or it will be doomed to fail.

“We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.”

[from Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life by Oswald Spengler]

"You will never get to see fifty foot statues of warlords and emperors or feel the triumph of conquest. You will never see man live as the ancients dreamed he would, all because a couple of rats tunneled their way into positions of power. They said the past is wrong. They said invaders should have your land. They said its ok to embrace apathy. You are a victim of the technocracy, of an abuse named 'civility'. You have been robbed of a fulfilling earnest life."
-Mike Ma

"An Aryan mind has too much respect for other people, and its sense of its own dignity is too pronounced to allow it to impose its own ideas upon others, even when it knows that its ideas are correct." - Julius C. Evola, The Doctrine of Awakening.

How?

It goes back to the absolute importance of sacred rites and initiations. Normally such things are required for men to reach such heroic and ascetic states. However in this age we lack the institutions that would give us these functions, so it is up to the strongest and most pious of us to re-discover those paths and lead the way for others.

To put it simply and concretely, you need to sincerely commit to the warrior-mystic path, always working to improve yourself and your connection to the Divine, praying or meditating for insights and inspirations. Without a mortal guide to help you you must train yourself. The 'divine madness' rarely comes to an uninitiated being, but when one prays for insight and inspiration they will come, and with practice these simple insights and inspirations become entire states of mind until you are truly 'possessed.'