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Elements of Racial Education -- Chap 5

Hello,

Evola speaks of "racial elites", while Guénon speaks of "spiritual
elites", or, more precisely, for reasons which he had the occasion to
explain and which sound most coherent to us, of a "spiritual elite"
in the singular. This being said, those who are familiar with Evola's
terminology have noticed that, at least before 1945, "race" for him
was more or less synonymous with "spirit". A thoroughbred man is a
spiritual man in the higher sense. "Race lives in blood, or rather
deeper than in blood, in a depth where individual life communicates
with a life more than individual", to be understood " as an order in
which spiritual forces are at work" - "race means superiority,
fullness and self-confidence of life" ('The Elements of Racial
Education') ; "Racism appears as a will - which could well be called
classical - of 'form', of 'limit', of individuation" ('Sintesi di
dottrina della razza'). As to Guénon, to the very best of our
knowledge, no definition of race is found in any of his writings, and
the two reviews he made on Evola's writings on the question of race
only show a total lack of comprehension on these matters. Keen as he
was on everything which is unchanging, Guénon could have been
expected to be sensitive to the fact that race is the only immutable
data in this world: man can change ideas, change his clothes, change
wife, change religion, change his physical appearance, his body, his
hair colour, his skin colour, can even change sex now. The only thing
he cannot change is race. This simple noticing, if taken to its
ultimate consequences, should allow some people to fully realise why
Evola laid so much stress on race.

Since Evola's definition of race turns out to be closely akin to the
classical definition of spirituality, we could all agree to say that,
for both of them, the "elite" is spiritual or it is not, and, while
we are at it, we could wonder whether Guénon's definition of
spirituality, based on the Vedantine doctrine, can be considered as
being in line with the classical one.

Thompkins&Cariou



--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Ciopa"
<hyperborean@b...> wrote:
> In this chapter – "Race and Nation" – Evola clarifies the
distinction
> between race and nation.
>
>
>
> By "race", Evola means something more specific and individuated
than the
> broad-brush categories of "white, black, red, and yellow". He
compares race
> in this sense to chemical elements. Nations or peoples would thus
be various
> compositions of such elements. This leads Evola to answer this
important
> question: "What relation exists then between the national idea and
the
> racial idea?"
>
>
>
> Since race appears both in the body and the spirit, the cultural,
artistic,
> religious and ethical forms are therefore manifestations of the
spirit and
> soul of the race. To see how this appears in a nation, Evola
tackles the
> problem of heterogeneous racial crosses. This results in the
distortion in
> the descendants of the characteristic traits of the related pure
types. A
> more serious problem can result in the case where the race of the
body
> differs from the race of the soul in some descendants, resulting in
an inner
> fragmentation. These issues may not always be immediately obvious
because of
> dominant and recessive genes; this means that the recessive quality
may
> appear unexpectedly. In the human case (as opposed to mere plants
and
> animals), due to the spiritual factor of race, the dominant quality
may fail
> to manifest in the absence of a racial consciousness.
>
>
>
> Evola opposes the democratic concept of nation, in which the various
> spiritual and biological races are kept in balance, to the racist
concept of
> nation, in which the leadership consists of an elite, representing
the most
> valid and worthiest elements. In the course of history, a nation,
which had
> its origins in a relatively pure race, has undergone various
weakenings.
> However, in any such composition nation, there has been and remains
a
> superior race. The most racially valid part of a nation must strive
to
> maintain itself.
>
>
>
> Evola then applies this idea to Fascism, in which the state is the
> instrument of a political elite, which is "meant to reassume the
heritage of
> the higher race and tradition existing in the national composite."
And to be
> specific: "the suprarace of the Italian nation is the race of Rome."
>
>
>
> My comment: This appears to represent a major divergence between
Evola and
> Guénon. In "The Crisis of the Modern World", Guénon looks for a
spiritual –
> not a racial – elite to arise. This elite will bring an
understanding of a
> metaphysic, best represented by the Vedanta, and not a specifically
racial
> consciousness to bear on the nation (or the West as a whole, in
Guénon's
> case).








Wed Jun 1, 2005 4:35 pm

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Hello, In this chapter of 'The Elements of Racial Education', Evola refers implicitly to the demographic battle launched by Mussolini at the beginning of the...
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Hello, Evola speaks of "racial elites", while Guénon speaks of "spiritual elites", or, more precisely, for reasons which he had the occasion to explain and...
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vandermok says: "If you do not recognize this as "racism", well, it is a problem of yours: use another word, but inwardly" fuck you, vandermok. I shall use...
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May 31, 2005
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In evola_as_he_is Thompkins&Cariou wrote: (...) According to him, this failure was due to Italian Catholic circles on one hand and to Italian official...
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Hello, This only proves our point: "National-Socialism was far from being a a monolithic entity". There are strong grounds for thinking, for example, that Dr...
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I came upon this article by Evola on Joseph de Maistre: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1404/maistre.html In it, Evola mentions that Masonry at the time...
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May 11, 2005
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Hello, This article was written and published in 1972 on the publication of a new Italian edition of 'Les Soirées de Saint-Petersbourg'. With thirty nine...
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Hello, A comma at the end of the address of the site we gave yesterday prevents you from accessing the site by clicking the link. Here it is again: ...
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Hello again, This cannot but remind us of de Maistre's most pertinent comment on 'man', on Montesquieu's 'man', a comment whose causticity is not much felt in...
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