Category: History
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The Mind of the Ancient City
Blind love vs Justice
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Rape of the Sabine Women
There is nothing inapplicable to today. Even for Christians, divine predilection and predestination are dogmas, although you don’t hear much about them today. God will favor some over others, in particular, those who offer prayer and sacrifice.
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Priest and King in Rome
These king-priests were inaugurated with a religious ceremonial. The new king, being conducted to the summit of the Capitoline Hill, was seated upon a stone seat, his face turned towards the south. On his left was seated an augur, his head covered with sacred fillets, and holding in his hand the augur’s staff. He marked…
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Giuliano Imperatore
In the November 1940 issue of La Vita Italiana, Julius Evola, writing under the pseudonym “Arthos”, addressed the ancient concept of race in the article “Sulle origini e sul doppio volto del razzismo”. We here are interested in the Emperor Julian, known as the Apostate. In this article, Evola aligns himself with Julian and states…
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Roma and Amor
Love conquers all and let us yield to love.
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The Heart of the West
If I say potato, someone else will say potato, as if there is a big difference.
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Beyond Mediocrity
the very nature of certain ordinary persons consists precisely in their perpetual and unvarying ordinariness.
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Ernst Junger on Apoliteia
The following passages are from Ernst Junger’s philosophical-metahistorical novel Eumeswil, a book which complements Julius Evola’s Ride the Tiger quite nicely. “I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in. … Thus I take…
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Festivities in the Hohenstaufen Court
The return to Tradition in the West, which rather than “saving” Western civilization, is instead its overcoming, has nothing to do with primitivism. It is consistent with reason as well as the highest standards in the arts and sciences. It protects religious life from its enemies (though not necessarily the Church) and permits esoterism and…
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Evola on Christianity in Europe
Continuing the translation of the interview in La Nation Europeenne: Julius Evola: A Justified Pessimism Q. Do you believe that the influence of Christianity was positive for European civilisation? Don’t you think that having adopted a religion of Semitic origin has distorted certain traditional European values? A. Speaking of Christianity, I often used the expression…