Julius Evola
04.05.202521:17
“The Constitution of 1787 was, then, what may be called an aristocratic republican form of organic law with no salient democratic features.”
—Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Menace of The Herd.
—Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Menace of The Herd.
25.04.202513:23
In a society that no longer understands the figure of the ascetic and of the warrior; in which the hands of the latest aristocrats seem better fit to hold tennis rackets or shakers for cocktail mixes than swords or scepters; in which the archetype of the virile man is represented by a boxer or by a movie star if not by the dull wimp represented by the intellectual, the college professor, the narcissistic puppet of the artist, or the busy and dirty money-making banker and the politician—in such a society it was only a matter of time before women rose up and claimed for themselves a “personality” and a “freedom” according to the anarchist and individualist meaning usually associated with these words. And while traditional ethics asked men and women to be themselves to the utmost of their capabilities and express with radical traits their own gender-related characteristics—the new “civilization” aims at leveling everything since it is oriented to the formless and to a stage that is truly not beyond but on this side of the individuation and differentiation of the sexes.
15.04.202517:41
If all efforts to reawaken the spiritual dimension of sexuality fail, and if the form of virility is not separated from what has become an amorphous and promiscuous spiritual substance, then everything is in vain. The virility that is physical, phallic, muscular, and animal is lifeless and does not contain any creative germ in the superior sense. Phallic man deceives himself by thinking that he dominates; the truth is that he is passive and is always susceptible to the subtler power of women and to the feminine principle. The differentiation of the sexes is authentic and absolute only in the spirit.
07.04.202503:29
Personal: On Social Media.
Oftentimes, social media doesn't show people as they truly are in their very essence. It doesn’t strip away the masks they put on; instead, it exacerbates people’s flaws and amplifies their failings. In fact, it often distorts and diminishes people, coaxing out their latent impulses, stroking their inner tendencies, only to morph them into something pathological and abnormal; what was a mere velleity is turned into a persistent action. It drives people to act in such a way that, if they paused even briefly or decelerated even a trifle to consider the purpose or reasoning behind it, they might abandon altogether and perceive its futility. But instead, things are now done on autopilot, simply for their own sake with no other conscious and well-considered end—as habits, as behaviours, as things said that are expected from everyone here. Thus, what is deemed “ordinary” in this digital space is merely a prescription that you’ve accepted and have been following, which only leads throughout the days to a persistent sense of purposeless restlessness that keeps shooting its roots within you. The deeper the roots are, the worse is your obsessive need to always act, always share, always reveal more about yourself, always follow the trend, always show others what you have and what you do, all without pausing to ask the fundamental question: Why? Why am I seeking to always be seen outwardly? Thus man becomes plagued by a horror vacui that never leaves him to a moment of self-reflection, until you see something as absurd as an online ‘personal’ journal. It has all become a never-ending externality, with not the least interiority. One no longer has anything autarchic about him, but only lives via the interactions he receives from others.
Oftentimes, social media doesn't show people as they truly are in their very essence. It doesn’t strip away the masks they put on; instead, it exacerbates people’s flaws and amplifies their failings. In fact, it often distorts and diminishes people, coaxing out their latent impulses, stroking their inner tendencies, only to morph them into something pathological and abnormal; what was a mere velleity is turned into a persistent action. It drives people to act in such a way that, if they paused even briefly or decelerated even a trifle to consider the purpose or reasoning behind it, they might abandon altogether and perceive its futility. But instead, things are now done on autopilot, simply for their own sake with no other conscious and well-considered end—as habits, as behaviours, as things said that are expected from everyone here. Thus, what is deemed “ordinary” in this digital space is merely a prescription that you’ve accepted and have been following, which only leads throughout the days to a persistent sense of purposeless restlessness that keeps shooting its roots within you. The deeper the roots are, the worse is your obsessive need to always act, always share, always reveal more about yourself, always follow the trend, always show others what you have and what you do, all without pausing to ask the fundamental question: Why? Why am I seeking to always be seen outwardly? Thus man becomes plagued by a horror vacui that never leaves him to a moment of self-reflection, until you see something as absurd as an online ‘personal’ journal. It has all become a never-ending externality, with not the least interiority. One no longer has anything autarchic about him, but only lives via the interactions he receives from others.
31.03.202521:01
Whether a woman is of the mother type or the lover type, existential anguish, fear of loneliness, and the feeling of an uneasy emptiness if she does not possess a man are characteristic of her. The social and even financial conditions that often seem to form the basis of that feeling are actually circumstances that only favor its existence but do not cause it. Instead, its deepest root is precisely the essential dependence of woman on another being, the feeling of “matter” and of Penia, who without the “other” and without “form” is nothingness and therefore, when left by herself, experiences the fear of nothingness. Weininger assigns to this metaphysical content also the frequent behavior of woman in coitus: “The supreme moment in the life of a woman, when her original being and elementary pleasure are revealed, is the moment when she feels the male seed running inside her; she then embraces the man tempestuously and hugs him to her; it is the supreme delight of passivity. . . . the matter which, indeed, is formed and does not wish to abandon form but to keep it everlastingly bound to herself.”
25.03.202518:42
«The god of the Jews has become secularised and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. . . .
Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the Jewish religion, is the real, conscious standpoint, the virtue of the man of money.»
—Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question (found in MECW, vol. 3, London: 1975, p. 172).
Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the Jewish religion, is the real, conscious standpoint, the virtue of the man of money.»
—Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question (found in MECW, vol. 3, London: 1975, p. 172).
03.05.202521:23
Personal: More and more years pass by, and it becomes clearer that, the most revolutionary and reactionary act today is just to do something ‘real’, without a will to performance, nor a will to be seen. Just something ‘real’, in utter silence, coming out of one’s profoundest depths. Whenever and wherever I meet people today, it almost always feels that they all have imbibed the dynamics and logic of social media, and are now acting everything out about those dynamics. They all feel like wearing personas everywhere while acting on a vast stage. Even what is ‘genuine’ and ‘authentic’ feels like a copy of a copy of another copy. I am not asking for absolute originality, because that concept itself has been crumbling over itself. Many a time the only solution appears to be this to me: To take refuge in silence.
20.04.202523:41
A woman realizes herself as such and even rises to the same level reached by a man as warrior and ascetic only as lover and mother. These are bipartitions of the same ideal strain; just as there is an active heroism, there is also a passive heroism; there is a heroism of absolute affirmation & a heroism of absolute dedication. They can both be luminous & produce plenty of fruits, as far as overcoming human limitations and achieving liberation are concerned, when they are lived with purity and in the sense of an offering. This differentiation of the heroic strain determines the distinctive character of the paths of fulfillment available to men and women. In the case of women the actions of the warrior and of the ascetic who affirm themselves in a life that is beyond life, the former through pure action & the latter through pure detachment, correspond to the act of the woman totally giving of herself and being entirely for another being, whether he is the loved one (the type of the lover—the Aphrodistic woman) or the son (the type of the mother—the Demetrian woman), finding in this dedication the meaning of her own life, her own joy, and her own justification. This is what bhakti or fides, which constitute the normal and natural way of participation of the traditional woman, really mean, both in the order of “form” and even beyond “form” when it is lived in a radical and impersonal way. To realize oneself in an increasingly resolute way according to these two distinct and unmistakable directions; to reduce in a woman all that is masculine and in a man everything that is feminine; and to strive to implement the archetypes of the “absolute man” and of the “absolute woman”—this was the traditional law concerning the sexes according to their different planes of existence.
10.04.202510:08
“To see what has become self-evident as something that was not originally self-evident is the task of all historical reflection.” (Hans Blumenberg, from his Die Legitimität der Neuzeit)
Personal: That’s why I cannot stomach most people, who naturally lack the least historical reflection upon their lives, their history, their mores, their customs, their behaviours, their very attitudes to anything and everything, etc. Hence, it has always felt repellent to me to think that what forms one’s present is the very end of existence and creation, and the very ordo mundi.
Personal: That’s why I cannot stomach most people, who naturally lack the least historical reflection upon their lives, their history, their mores, their customs, their behaviours, their very attitudes to anything and everything, etc. Hence, it has always felt repellent to me to think that what forms one’s present is the very end of existence and creation, and the very ordo mundi.
05.04.202504:55
Everything in modern society tends to dampen the heroic sense of life. Everything moves toward mechanization, to the regulated and prudent community life of beings who are constantly in need of something, and not self-sufficient. Everything today tends to be reduced to the lower two of the four castes (the heroes, those who are initiated into wisdom, the merchants, and the workers) upon which the rational and integral organization of ancient Eastern societies was based.
War itself, having been mechanized, no longer knows warriors—in the ancient, classical, and medieval sense of the word—but only soldiers. Having been suffocated, the heroic will seek other paths, other outlets beyond the network of practical interests, passions, and cravings that is becoming tighter everyday. Maybe the popular enthusiasm for sports that our contemporaries exhibit is a deviated manifestation of this. Still, the struggle with the heights and the mountain precipices is the purest and most beautiful form, freed from everything mechanized and from everything that rarefies the direct and absolute relation between the self and phenomena.
War itself, having been mechanized, no longer knows warriors—in the ancient, classical, and medieval sense of the word—but only soldiers. Having been suffocated, the heroic will seek other paths, other outlets beyond the network of practical interests, passions, and cravings that is becoming tighter everyday. Maybe the popular enthusiasm for sports that our contemporaries exhibit is a deviated manifestation of this. Still, the struggle with the heights and the mountain precipices is the purest and most beautiful form, freed from everything mechanized and from everything that rarefies the direct and absolute relation between the self and phenomena.
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Julius Evola
30.03.202502:22
Personal: The problem with modern man (including woman, of course) is that, he is born into and is living in an abject, degenerate, and abnormal society from cardle to grave, knowing nothing except what he has experience of, and yet he has the courage and the face to tell you how things ‘are’, how things ‘should’ be, and what things are wrong. He lives and dies thinking that the man he knows is THE man; that the woman he knows is THE woman; that the life he knows is THE life; that the relationships he has been through are THE relationships; that the ambitions and wishes he has are THE only ones out there; that the views he espouses are THE only views; he thinks that life has always been like this and cannot be otherwise. And thus he, the degenerate and abject and abnormal, dares to tell you how you should live, to whom you should get married, how you should view this and that, for what things you should wish, etc.
The problem with modern man is that he no longer knows any alternative; that he can no longer even conceive of one; that he is willing to live and die thinking that the life he knows is THE only life there is. The amnesia is crawling into every last spot of modern man’s memory that he cannot even remember how his grandparents lived fifty years ago.
And then what you see is that, those who claim that they want to reveal to you how to ‘succeed’ in today’s society in whatever aspect of it, are actually only telling you how to get along with the abnormality, the degeneracy, the lowliness; they are only showing you the direction of the waves so you can flow with them more easily until you are soaked head to toe, instead of showing you the way to fight the waves or at least go along another brook.
“Let your women keep silent in the churches.”—We should tell the modern man something like this: Be silent as regards anything, especially anything of importance; you know nothing outside your odious world.
The problem with modern man is that he no longer knows any alternative; that he can no longer even conceive of one; that he is willing to live and die thinking that the life he knows is THE only life there is. The amnesia is crawling into every last spot of modern man’s memory that he cannot even remember how his grandparents lived fifty years ago.
And then what you see is that, those who claim that they want to reveal to you how to ‘succeed’ in today’s society in whatever aspect of it, are actually only telling you how to get along with the abnormality, the degeneracy, the lowliness; they are only showing you the direction of the waves so you can flow with them more easily until you are soaked head to toe, instead of showing you the way to fight the waves or at least go along another brook.
“Let your women keep silent in the churches.”—We should tell the modern man something like this: Be silent as regards anything, especially anything of importance; you know nothing outside your odious world.
22.03.202502:08
«Instead of returning to my “homeland,” I now have the feeling of having come to a foreign land: I can count on the tips of my fingers, and, I fear, on one hand, the people with whom, here, now, still alive and present, I can have contact.»
—Evola, from a letter to his friend, August 1948.
—Evola, from a letter to his friend, August 1948.
02.05.202523:09
As far as the woman is concerned, there is true greatness in her when she is capable of giving without asking for anything in return; when she is like a flame feeding itself; when she loves even more as the object of her love does not commit himself, does not open himself up, and even creates some distance; and finally, when the man is not perceived by her as a mere husband or lover, but as her lord. The spirit animating the harem consisted in the struggle to overcome jealousy and thus the passionate selfishness and the woman’s natural inclination to possess the man. A woman was asked to commit herself to the harem from her adolescence to her old age and to be faithful to a man who could enjoy other women beside herself and possess them all without “giving” himself to any one in particular. In this “inhuman” trait there was something ascetical and even sacred.
18.04.202520:16
Every time this cack is shared in this very specific formula, it vulgarises things even beyond bearable. When you let what was originally aristocratic and noble into the hands of, first, burghers, and then commoners, churls, or plebs—you lose the especial beauty of both groups. You no longer get to retain aristocratic beauty nor ‘folkish’ beauty.
The e-defenders of whatever European “Culture” is today no longer even try to really choose well and to comprehend what that culture ‘used’ to be. But the mere act of presenting whatever they choose in this very manner vulgarises it yet further; there is something inherently cheap about it.
And if this is what you take as the peak of ‘European’ beauty, then I assure you that—against your deplorable ignorance—there are far more beautiful creations from other peoples on this earth.
The e-defenders of whatever European “Culture” is today no longer even try to really choose well and to comprehend what that culture ‘used’ to be. But the mere act of presenting whatever they choose in this very manner vulgarises it yet further; there is something inherently cheap about it.
And if this is what you take as the peak of ‘European’ beauty, then I assure you that—against your deplorable ignorance—there are far more beautiful creations from other peoples on this earth.
08.04.202521:17
“The aristocracies of the world have never doubted the supremacy of the home and garden and temple over all the baser mechanisms of existence, and the folk-civilizations out of which aristocracies have so often risen have never strayed far from these realities. The great heresy of the modern world is that it ceased to worship the Lords of Life, who made the rivers flow, caused the animals to mate, & brought forth the yearly miracle of vegetation: it prostrated itself, on the contrary, before the dwarfs, with their mechanical ingenuity, and the giants, with their imbecile power. Today our lives are perpetually menaced by these “busy people”; we are surrounded by their machines, and for worship, we turn their prayer wheels of red-tape.”
—Lewis Mumford, Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and Civilization.
—Lewis Mumford, Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and Civilization.
02.04.202515:34
Eilade upon meeting Evola.
29.03.202505:09
Personal: A real Christian today, a very real one, would appear to be utterly out of this world, something immensely other-worldly—but such a thing was barely seen in the olden days, and today it is even rarer, almost no longer extant, especially in the ‘civilised’ world. Everyone is soaked with this world, with this sæculum; Christians, likewise, are wallowing in hoc sæculo.
22.03.202501:28
Right-wingism today is just a clownish masquerade, a mere, imbecilic caricature of itself that is getting dumber everyday. It is no longer even amusing. Communists can only dream to reach such a success in being a laughing stock.
25.04.202519:27
Honestly, I just feel total incapability to understand how people could write something like this, supposedly seeing in the AfD everything we just keep failing to see or identify. Nothing appears serious to me, even though not out of some cynical malady, and yet some are ready to declare that, «the AfD voice becomes a tuning fork», «the return of a forgotten Germany,» or other certain things of the same effect. It is either I am just a deranged codger, or these people are fond of empty exaggerations.
16.04.202500:38
No-one wants to thoroughly think things through and consider them any longer; everyone wants to ‘appear’ based and that’s it, hence one looks for the ‘current thing’ and then reactively reaches for its opposite. This is the ‘intellectual’ world of the e-Right.
—Probably Evola.
—Probably Evola.
08.04.202509:25
Casual Jünger.
02.04.202507:49
Personal: Knowledge for knowledge’s sake, and the desire to really ‘know’ things and to comprehend all the possible aspects, knowledge as a man’s profound call and inner vocation, but without hypris—this is one of the realest, most genuine and lasting joys of man’s life.
28.03.202520:29
What the Greeks called “heterity,” that is, being connected to another or being centered on someone other than oneself, is a characteristic proper to the cosmic female, whereas to have one’s own principle in oneself is proper to the pure male. At the psychological level that fact leads to qualities in woman which can be readily seen in everyday life: female life is almost always devoid of an individual value but is linked to someone else in her need, born of vanity, to be acknowledged, noticed, flattered, admired, and desired (this extroverted tendency is connected to that “looking outside” which on a metaphysical level has been attributed to Shakti). The practice of wooing, gallantry, and compliments (even insincere ones) would be inconceivable if separated from the obligatory basis consisting precisely of this inborn trait of the female psyche, which man has had to keep in mind at all times and in all places. Let us remark in passing that the values of female ethics are very different from those of male ethics, and this can be seen at once in the fact that a woman ought to despise a man for such fawning behavior, which is often pursued just to possess her body; yet exactly the opposite happens.
22.03.202501:22
And, your modern-day, Jüngerian Anarch, sir:
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