Evola on ‘real’ action and its degeneration in the West:

1/ They awaken, command, and direct movement: they make others act but do not act themselves; that is, they are not carried away by action but are the action itself, a calm and impassive superiority from which action 2/ proceeds and depends. This is why their command, powerful and invisible, can be described, with Lao-tzu, as “action without action” (wei-wu-wei). Conversely, those who act are already acted upon; those who are taken by action, who are intoxicated with action, “will,” & “force”

1/ “There is nothing to which the young are more inclined than leaping from the weighty to the frivolous, especially when it’s pleasant & possessed of a beautiful surface. The young are then prone to setting aside the ancient authors, who are the true exemplars of the beautiful, 2/ to neglect philosophy, theology, and a thorough grounding in other departments of knowledge, so that they may take recreation in the witty writings of their own language and therewith fill their imaginations. That is how matters stand in schools and academies, and since it is

1/ “Sex is the “greatest magical force in nature”; an impulse acts in it which suggests the mystery of the One, even when almost everything in the relationship between man and woman deteriorates into animal embraces and is exhausted and dispersed in a faded idealizing 2/ sentimentality or in the habitual routine of socially acceptable conjugal relations. The metaphysics of sex survives in the very cases where, in looking at wretched mankind and the vulgarity of infinite lovers of infinite races—endless masks and individuations of the Absolute

1/ The union between a man and a woman can (and should) be the most celestial thing in one’e life, the highest, the noblest, the most fulfiling and expressive of one’s Being, the very thing that makes you believe in the transcendent, in the other-worldly, nay, in God himself.— 2/ And yet you look around you and you see youths lowering this union down to something so demeaning, ephemeral, exploitive, pitiable, unserious, unsecure, and trivial to an extent that cannot but grieve the heart that still has even a droplet of what one might call “humanness.”

1/ Rites, institutions, laws, and customs may still continue to exist for a certain time; but with their meaning lost and their “virtue” paralysed they are nothing but empty shells. Once they are abandoned to themselves and have become secularised, they crumble like parched olay 2/ and become increasingly disfigured and altered, despite all attempts to retain from the outside, whether through violence or imposition, the lost inner unity. As long as a shadow of the action of the superior element remains, however, and an echo of it exists in the blood,

1/ In the world of the ‘‘evolved’’ ‘‘emancipated,’’ and self-aware woman, there may exist [between man and woman] the promiscuity of an ambiguous camaraderie or pallid intellectual affinities. There may be encounters of pleasure, akin to arranging a bridge game—but love, 2/ in its truest & most elemental sense [= a kind of sheer polarity, & not faceless equality, between absolutes], shall be no more; that love, in which the ancients perceived the manifestation of a primordial & formidable force, imbued with cosmic significance, has vanished.

1. «Technocracy will Americanise us, progress will starve our spirituality so far that nothing of the bloodthirsty, frivolous or unnatural dreams of the utopist will be comparable to those positive facts. I invite any thinking person to show me what is left of life. 2. Religion! It is useless to talk about it, or to look for its remnants; it is a scandal that one takes the trouble even of denying God. Private property! It was—strictly speaking—abolished with the suppression of the right of primogeniture;

1. The truth is rather that at the bottom of feminism there hides a ‘radical pessimism’: that is, the tacit premise that woman ‘as woman’ cannot find value in herself, for which she must, insofar as she can, make herself into a man, claim the same social and intellectual 2. prerogatives of man. In this sense, we call it pessimism: the presumed feminist ‘vindication’ of woman conceals an abdication of modern woman, her impotence, or her mistrust, at being and at having value as that which she is: as woman, and not as man.

1. So far as the genders go, feminism, in its demand for equality, subscribes to the view according to which every difference and every distance is to be held an evil. It would abolish the specificity of functions and types, it would tend to something uniform, which however we 2. will not say lies (as is believed) ‘beyond’, but rather ‘within’, individuation and the differentiation of the sexes. The result is precisely either the altogether new neutral and Amazonic type of American women and of the sportive European ‘garçonnes’—or else the presexual,

1. The fundamental meaning of every civilisation was that of a victory of form over the formless, of the ‘cosmos’ over the ‘chaos’. Thus, at the centre of the classical vision of life & of the State we characteristically find precisely the cult and the valorisation of the limit, 2. of the form, of difference, of the clear personality. The world is ‘cosmos’ and not ‘chaos’ to the extent that it, like a harmonious living organism, is constituted by a whole of finite parts, each of which has a precise function, proper to it and unmistakable in the whole;

1. As in a mirror, he “looks at himself again and again before performing an action; he looks at himself again and again before saying a word; he looks at himself again and again before harbouring a thought.” It can easily be seen that by following such a path a 2. man naturally transforms himself into a kind of living statue made up of awareness, into a figure pervaded by composedness, decorum, and dignity, a figure that inevitably calls to mind not only the whole style of the ancient Aryan aristocracy but also that made famous by the

1. After centuries of “slavery” women wanted to be themselves and to do whatever they pleased. But so-called feminism has not been able to devise a personality for women other than by imitating the male personality, so that the woman’s “claims” conceal a fundamental lack of trust 2. in herself as well as her inability to be and to function as a real woman and not as a man. Due to such a misunderstanding, the modern woman has considered her traditional role to be demeaning and has taken offense at being treated “only as a woman.”

1/ It was not Fascism that negatively affected the Italian people, the ‘Italian race’, but vice versa. It was this people, this ‘race’ that negatively affected Fascism, that is, the Fascist experiment, insofar as Italy could not furnish a sufficient number of men who could rise 2/ to the challenge of certain high demands and symbols, men who were healthy elements and able to promote the development of the positive potential that could have been contained in the Fascist system. This deficiency must also be taken into consideration in regard to really

1/ As today marks the 300th anniversary of the birthday of Kant, maybe it is of interest to know that, Evola, during the days of the university, came to learn German in his early twenties, and then started devouring Kant (there are whole pages in his journals dedicated to Kant’s 2/ three ‘Kritiken’), Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and the majority of modern and contemporary philosophical texts back then. It is certainly due to this that, Guénon described Evola as saturated with German Idealism more than enough. Of more interest is to know that,

On the foundation of Rome, by Massimo Scaligero (a lengthy but important thread):

1/ «Beyond the veil of myth, the foundation of the City of Rome presents in its drama the signs of a new history of the West, through a chain of events that are to be considered symbols of a new

2/ way of seeing & organizing life & that, therefore, in the old & decadent Mediterranean world, herald the Roman conquest of the West. It should be said that the rite of the foundation is the prelude, in its naked drama, to the eternal virtues of the Empire: the founder is

1/ For a global evaluation of German racism, the German-Aryan presumption under which, as Hitler proclaimed, being a street sweeper in the Reich should be considered a greater honor than being the king of a foreign country, should seem a demagogic aberration. 2/ Nonetheless, the fact remains that, even from the point of view of the Right, a certain balanced consciousness and dignity of 'race' can be considered as salutary, if we think where we have ended up in our days with the exaltation of the Negro and all the rest,

As today marks Hitler's birthday, which is an uninteresting occasion for myself, I want to share with you a lengthy and most interesting, ‘morphological’ description of the man written by the important, but forgotten, Anthony M. Ludovici, who was a true man of the Right: (a 🧵) 1/ “He is middle-aged and of medium height. Stockily built and fairly muscular, he is a so-called ‘dark-blond’ with eyes that betray the blond strain in his ancestry. He moves with energy and decision, but never jerkily.

“Thus after a series of bright days, often comes indefinite weather, and then a morning of particular clarity heralds the great climatic shift, when all the mountains and the valleys once again reveal themselves in their full splendour. Good prose is like wine; it lives on afterwards much like wine after it is pressed. There are sentences that are not yet true, but a mysterious life imbues them with truth. Fresh prose may still be a bit raw, but over the years it gains patina. I often notice this in old letters.

1/ From the various revivals of a suspect mysticism to the introduction of always more counterfeit exotic doctrines; from the newest spiritualistic superstition to the morbid interest in the problems and complications of the unconscious and psychoanalysis; from Intuitionism and 2/ Surrealism to the various messianic forms & to pseudo-religious & pseudo-occultists of the 1700s that swarmed at the margins of Protestantism; from humanitarian and universalistic ideologies to those of a Religion of Life and a Superman who, strange to say, almost always ends

1/ It is necessary to take a stand against everything which serves only to trigger a sort of chronic obsession with sex & women, & which ultimately represents a systematic, wide-scale attack against virile values: 2/ for wherever love & sex predominate, it will always be womankind that, in some way or other, predominates. This obsession is nourished in a thousand ways by means that are not, strictly speaking, ‘obscene’, such as the images in magazines, ads and films, beauty pageants,

1/ In Judaism, the law takes over the function of all of those principles. To the point that if the Jews are liberated from the law, they automatically become a factor of dissolution. Thus, themselves without race, Jews then become the anti-race; 2/ themselves without a nation, they become the anti-nation. Mommsen wrote: “Already in the ancient world, Judaism was a ferment of cosmopolitanism and national decomposition.” An elusive, evasive, and rootless substance within any country,