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The tradition evola wants us to fall back into are the ancestors of what we know as
the arayn race Evola explains two paragraphs after their second card
(Evola 34, Julius, Italian writer and esotericist, Regality, Revolt Against the Modern World, ch 2)
The Indo-Aryan civilization exemplifies one of die most thorough applications of the
foregoing principles. In this civilization, the brahmana caste was not at the top of
the social hierarchy by virtue of its material strength or its wealth, or even of its
para-ecclesiastical organization; only the sacrificial rite, which was its privilege, determined its higher status vis-a-vis other castes. By permeating those who
performed them with some kind of dreadful and beneficial psychic power, the rite
and the sacri- fice allowed the brahmana to partake of the same nature as the
evoked powers; not only would this quality abide in that person forever, making him
directly superior to and revered and feared by others, but it would also be
transmitted to his descendants. Having entered into the bloodstream as some sort
of transcendent legacy, this quality would become the characteristic feature of a
race that is activated in individuals by the rite of initiation, 1 The dignity of a caste
was determined both by the difficulty and by the usefulness of the functions it
exercised. Because of the abovementioned pre- suppositions, in the world of
Tradition nothing was cherished more than the spiritual influences that the rite could
activate through its necessitating action; nothing appeared as difficult as entering
into a real and active relationship with the invisible forces that were ready to
overcome the imprudent person who dared to confront them without pos- sessing
the necessary qualifications and knowledge. For this reason the brahmana caste,
despite the fact that it was scattered throughout India, could evince the respect of
the masses and enjoy a prestige that no tyrant ever enjoyed, no matter how well
aimed.
Then when they talk about modern imperialism- Evola is talking about humanitys
nature need to produce new ways of thinking about the world and interacting with
the world with science and technology Evola argues these forms of imperialism are
bad because they obscure humanitys understanding of tradition and the
supremacy of the traditional way of living by the aryans-This is starts immideintly
after they cut their 3rd piece of evidence
(Evola 34, Julius, Italian writer and esotericist, Unrealism and Individualism, Revolt Against the
Modern World, ch. 34)
In general, modern man has looked at the shift from a "civilization of being" to a
"civilization of becoming" as a real step forward. 11 The valorization of the purely
temporal aspect of reality in the name of history (hence historicism) has been one
of the consequences of this shift. Once contact with the origins was lost the
indefinite, senseless, and accelerated motion of what has rightly been called an
"escape for- ward" in the name of evolution and progress has become the main
feature of modern civilization. Quite frankly, the germs of this superstitious
mythology applied to time may be found in Judeo-Christian eschatology and
Messianism as well as in early Catholic apologetics, which valorized the "novelty" of
the Christian revelation so much so that in Ambrose's polemics against the Roman
tradition we can find an early formulation of the theory of progress. The
"rediscovery of man" promoted by the Renaissance represented a fertile habitat for
the growth of those germs, up to the period of the Enlightenment and scientism.
Ever since then the impressive develop- ment of the sciences of nature and
technology, as well as of inventions, has acted like opium, distracting man's mind
and preventing him from perceiving the underly- ing and essential meaning of the
entire movement: the abandonment of being and dissolution of any centrality in
man, and his identification with the current of becom- ing, which has become
stronger than him. And when the fantastic ideas of die coars- est kind of
progressivism are at risk of being unmasked, the new religions of life and the "elan
vital," as well as "Faustian" activity and myth, make their appearance and become
new intellectual "drugs" that ensure that the movement may not be interrupted but
spurred on, so that it may acquire a meaning in itself, both for man and for
existence in general.
Celtic kind. If proof were needed, it is that the doctrinal sources are always the
same: it is enough to visit certain racist websites, or to follow anti-Zionist
propaganda in the Arab countries, to see that anti-semites have still found nothing
better to do than to recycle, yet again, those ludicrous Protocols.
Their 4th piece of evidence is tagged as There is no alternative Only a return to Tradition,
of rite as the axis of life, has the potential to solve modernity's materialist focus
Let me read a line out of this evidence
Evolas work was adopted not by one but Two Facist States- to
legitimize Anti-semitic policies- Evola became a member of the
SS and worked with a special unit hunting Free Masons
Responsible for the Death of 80,000 people-as if that wasnt
enough he was charged with creating a nazi guerrilla army to
fight the allied forces in WW2 that later evolved into terrorist
organizations in Italy all directly tied to by his scholarship on
embracing the tradition the aff forefronts
Kennedy 2 [William H. Kennedy Modernism Expert] Revolting Julius Evola and the
Blood Axis Fascists Julius Evola as Nazi and ardent anti-semite
Evola did not remain idle during the 1930s and produced an Italian version of German Nazi
Race Theory in which he proffered the ideal of an Aryan-Roman race defined by a strong social
hierarchy and a volatile anti-Semitism. Mussolini adopted Evolas racial guidelines as the official
policy of the Italian Fascist State in 1938. [4] Rene Guenon was a religious philosopher who contended that
all of the great spiritual belief systems of the World emanated from a single Transcendental source and that the
major Faiths were merely different expressions of the same metaphysical order. Along with this contention came
Gunons harsh critique of the modern world which he believed had degenerated from Divine Revelation and
authentic spiritual civilization. Guenons co-worker in this perspective was art historian and philosopher Ananda K
Coomaraswamy longtime curator of the Asian collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Coomaraswamy shared
Guenons belief in a transcendent unity of religion and was equally critical of modernity which he believed had
corroded authentic spiritual revelation as it found expression in various civilizations. Guenon and Coomaraswamy
Pagans. In this study Evola denounced his earlier Pagan Imperial views and revamped his his theory to conform to
the secret occult initiations favored by Himmler. This was done purely as a means to satisfy the German Nazis .
The
Barons strategy worked and he was invited to join Hitlers inner circle at the Third Reichs
Eastern headquarters in September of 1943. The SS had earlier rejected Evola as a major player
in the War effort but now his revamped theory fit their agenda. At a meeting with Hitler,
Himmler and a recently liberated Mussolini, t he Baron was awarded a top level appointment to
the SS and was assigned two important functions. Headquartered in Vienna, Evola worked translating
Freemasonic documents seized by the Gestapo from various temples which were raided by the
SS. [5] The Freemasons were a major target, along with Jews and Communists, of Hitlers wrath.
Seeing this fraternity as a threat to their power Hitler and Himmler persecuted Masons and over 80,000 were
sent to Concentration Camps with many being gassed . When the Allies began to overtake Austria the
Gestapo destroyed a great many of their documents. Consequently, there is no way of knowing the extent of
Evolas collaboration with the actual internment and execution of Masons but it is not unreasonable to conclude that
Evola had friends who were Masons and Jews does not detract from the fact that the Baron had a shadowy hand in
their persecution during the War. Evolas contemporary defender Dr. Hansen noted that Evola was evasive about his
wartime work stating: As we have already reported, at least in the later war years Evola lived in Vienna while
probably going through the archives of various secret societies. His exact intentions are not known, since he never
from Allied invasion. In this regard Evola was a pawn of the SS in that leading Gestapo officers saw the war was lost
and sought to fend off the Allies as long as possible as to plan their escape from Europe. As the Russian Army
entered the outskirts of Berlin , it was the non-German SS called the Legion of Charlemagne who defended the
Fhrer to the bloody end. At this juncture many leading SS officers had fled Europe and avoided prosecution for war
Near the wars end Evola was caught in an Allied bombing raid and lost the use of both of his legs and
was wheelchair bound for the rest of his life. The Baron returned to Rome a broken man both in body
and spirit. With most of the Austrian SS documents destroyed the International Military Tribunal
never went after Evola for prosecution which turned out to be a fatal mistake. As will be
demonstrated, Evola became embittered and began to encourage post war neo-fascists to undertake
acts of terrorism until his death in 1974. During the war years Rene Guenon lived quietly in Cairo writing and
crimes.
editing his essays and books. There is no evidence that he was aware of Evolas vile activity during the War. Even
though the two remained in contact and Evola even published articles by the Frenchman in the newspaper he
founded in the post war years, it was highly unlikely that Guenon knew of Evolas strong fascist ties. There is no
documentary evidence [letters, journal entries] that reflects the possibility that Guenon was aware, in any way,
shape or form that Evola was such a high level SS recruiter. As Hansen noted Evola just did not like to discuss his
wartime work and intentions. Consequently, this frees Guenon from the charge of fascist sympathies and isolates
Evola from the Traditionalist perspective as espoused by Guenon and Coomaraswamy. Nor did Guenon or
Coomaraswamy share Evolas enthusiasm for a revival of Roman Imperial Paganism. There are few references to
Roman antiquity in Coomaraswamys or Guenons writing. Guenon was actually hostile toward Imperial Rome
believing that the Roman concepts of liberty and individuality were contrary to Tradition. In the Traditionalist
purview Islam constitutes the Seal of the Prophets and any religious system which died out completely like Roman
Paganism before the Koran was composed were considered moot and defunct. There is no place for the revival of
extinct metaphysical belief systems in the work of Guenon and Coomaraswamy. Coomaraswamy rejected both
European Fascism and the work of Julius Evola. In an exchange of letters Coomaraswamy and Guenon concluded
that European Fascism was devoid of Traditional Principles and was, consequently, a corrupt political order. In
Coomaraswamys 1942 publication, Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian theory of Government,
Coomaraswamy states that he is disappointed in seeing Evolas potential wane and chides him for reversing the
Traditional hierarchy in his political theory. Evola suggested that the warrior class should lead the Ideal State instead
of a sacred monarch which was called for in Traditional Religions. By doing this, claimed Coomaraswamy, Evolas
political theory was a degenerate product of the modern world and did not reflect the Traditional order. Guenon
endorsed the book and consequently must have accepted Coomaraswamys rejection of Evola. The fact that
Guenon remained in contact with Evola after the war only reflects Guenons continued belief that Evola was
redeemable and worth having as a possible Italian representative of the Traditionalist school. If Guenon had been
aware of Evolas wartime activities it is unlikely the Frenchman would have continued his friendship with the Baron.
After Guenons premature death in 1951 Evola became the de facto representative of the Italian Traditionalist
school. Coomaraswamy had died in 1947 so there was no one to dispute Evolas claim. With the advent of the Cold
War Evolas memory quickly faded from public consciousness especially after he was acquitted of inspiring neofascist parties in his famous trial held in Rome during 1951. Evolas Real Legacy: Neo- Fascist Terrorism On August
2, 1980 at 10:25 AM a timed bomb exploded at Bologna central railway station killing 85 people and injuring over
200 others. The explosive was planted by operatives of Italian neo-fascist leaders who were directly inspired by
Julius Evola. As Italian authorities questioned possible suspects Evolas writings kept popping up in police
Oh and if that isnt enough this fuckers work they read was
also used by Mussolini to legitimize his dictatorship and
Imperialist war with Ethopia that killed hunderds of thousands
The thesis of your aff is the pet project of one of the biggest
assholes ever His literature justified Italian colonialism and is
anti-semetic, anti-black and misogynistic.
Paul Furlong, 12-5-2011, "Who Makes the Nazis?: Julius Evola: A Dangerous
Beast," No Publication, http://www.whomakesthenazis.com/2011/12/julius-evoladangerous-beast.html (brenden brower-freeman)
As a young man he was too distracted by the Dadaist movement, experimentation
with drugs, magic practices and the esoteric in general, to take any notice of
Mussolini's terrorist gangs rampaging up and down the country killing hundreds of
people prior to the 1922 March on Rome. But as soon as the dictator ditched
democracy, abolished parties, trade unions and a free press, and began to
incarcerate and murder dissidents, Evola was quick to support the authoritarian
experiment and eager to provide his intellectual contributions . He developed a
lifelong interest in tyranny and how to perfect it through a minestrone of ideas that
included alchemy, superstition, the occult, initiatory rituals, the sacred as inherited
from mythologies, combining tradition with nationalism in search of the "absolute",
by which he meant the primordial force that renews itself through the heroic deeds
of men belonging to an elite, members of a superior race in a superior order, a
hierarchy of the spirit. Between 1927 and 1929 he sought to imbue Mussolini with a
sense of the sacred through magic techniques. He engaged devotees to generate a
spiritual force to put the uncouth dictator with peasant blood onto a transcendental
level. How Mussolini reacted to such attempts to spiritualise fascism is not known.
He was probably more interested in preparing the path to attain his imperial
ambitions, hence the conquest of Abyssinia and Ethiopia presented as a kind of duty
by a superior race descended from the Romans to rule over inferior people for their
own good. Racist justification was needed and Evola obliged enthusiastically. Racism
became his speciality. There was race of the body, race of the soul and race of the
spirit. Needless to say, he was anti-semitic and anti black, as well as a misogynist
who relegated women to the role of procreating machines .
1943, not 1944. And I can't help thinking that in citing the terrorist massacres
perpetrated by some of Evola's admirers, the number of victims should be
mentioned: 17 people died and 88 were wounded, for instance, in the Piazza
Fontana bombing in Milan in 1969. Real blood helps to put things into perspective.