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.
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.