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Priest and Warriors:
Something that must be recognized is the fact that Evola does NOT claim that the priestly nature is subordinate to the warrior nature. Neither does Guenon claim that the priestly nature should rule, in the real sense sense of the word, the warrior nature.

The preist is in a true hierarchy emboding the spiritual or contemplative principle, corresponding to the head or brain, whereas the warrior represents the virile or active principle, or the chest and heart.

In his natural state the warrior needs the priest in order to direct his actions towards spiritually benefitial results (holy war, victory/death), however, what Evola does say is that the ordering principle of this hierarchy, the regal nature, is OF the warrior nature, through a "purification", a heroic attainment , and a reintegration with those qualities that belong to the priest as well as retaining those of the warrior. The king becomes both priest and warrior, both temporally and spiritually superior, and thus the only principle fit to order everyone else inferior to him.


A key concept, which will appear in other places in Evola's works, is Evasion. This concept is already known in the field of ethics as something which might be derived from the truth but leads one to a false conclusion. This should give the reader a good idea of what it is meant by evasion being the overall "theme" of a book on spirituality and spiritually-adjacent or significant philosophies,


The Mask and Face of Contemporary Spiritualism:

Mask and Face gives to the reader a good idea of what Evola is like as a thinker and writer (critical, fair, and well-oriented), though even this work can be a bit daunting and assumes that the reader is already familiar with key aspects of anything from Enlightenment philosophy, Roman Catholicism, and Psychoanalysis, as well as the finer points of Nietzschean thought as well as various eastern philosophies and doctrines.

Despite the title, a good deal of what is said in the book is very relevant, especially if you have spiritual interests, and in some ways can be thought of, as the translator's introduction says "This book was Evola’s own stepping back, his own preparation for his own leap — his leap against Modernity, his casting himself, in all his formidable force and power against the modern theme..." It is, in a word, the spiritual pre-requisite to Evolas work.


If (for whatever reason) any of you are interested in some biographical information regarding Evola's love life.


Evola and Nietzsche: The Hero and the Overman






My unreasonable fascination with Nordic Bronze Age stone carvings


Mars + Sol = Jupiter








Consider the following:


The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had the right ideas:

1. to have genuine ideas to express;

2. to study Nature attentively, so as to know how to express them;

3. to sympathise with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote;

4. most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues.


Reminder that Circe is the daugther of Helios.


Men Among the Ruins: A book for those who live amid the spiritual and material decay of the last age. This is a positive work, it presupposes that in a state of decay there is still hope and a possibility to directly oppose dissolution.

Ride the Tiger: A book for those who live in an age of complete dissolution, where one can no longer stop the processes and phenomena working towards dissolution, lest one risk being overthrown by them. In this case, one should not directly oppose the forces of dissolution, but rather one should "ride the tiger". In this book Evola tackles the domains in which he finds the forces of dissolution at work, and how these forces can be "ridden". How the differentiated man can turn this state of affairs to his own liberation instead of his enslavement.


Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, by John William Waterhouse.

The supernatural Woman of the Grial is comparable to that of the Hindu Shakti.


The Knight of the Holy Grail, by Frederick Judd Waugh.

The Virtues of the Grail according to Julius C. Evola:

1. Virtue of Light. An enlightening virtue.
2. Virtue of Life. An immortalizing virtue.
3. Virtue of Healing. A vivifying virtue.
4. Virtue of Power. A victorious virtue.
5. Virtue of Destruction. A dangerous virtue.


"The Centre is the origin, the point of departure of all things; it is the principal point, without form and without dimensions, therefore indivisible, and thus the only image that can be given to the primordial unity" - Rene Guenon, Fundamental Symbols of Sacred Science

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