In his classic, ‘Metaphysics of War’, Julius Evola speaks of war having two natures: the “lesser holy war”, being material in nature and involving a struggle against an external enemy, and the “greater holy war”, which is of an inner, spiritual nature, in which one battles against the lower forms of the self, only to conquer and overcome them.
Fight Club put it more simply: “We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.”
Our Great War is indeed a spiritual war, but those of us who fight this war will not succumb to depression, nor will we suffer lack of place or purpose. Our greatest battles will be internal, the external struggles that all of us engage in daily only being the outward manifestations of our great self-overcoming.
And those of us who fight this war will never truly perish.
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