RE: [evola_as_he_is] Re: Elements of Racial Education -- Chap 11
This is why it is
helpful to have the text ready at hand, rather than to rely on a summary.
The race of the soul is “connected
to life”, that is, the “quality of character, of immediate inner reaction,
of style of behaviour, to gifts which cannot be learnt or constructed but which
are innate”. Evola points out that the race of the soul is only virtual
in normal circumstances, but may reveal itself in a crisis.
Evola recognizes that “spirit”
has lost its Traditional meaning, and which he describes as “instinct on
a higher plane”. It is revealed as a “world view”, which is
not arrived at by a process of reasoning nor by the experimental procedures of an
empirical science. This world view is innate and is not learned. It colours the
way a man experiences and relates to the world. One is either aware of his
world view, or race of spirit, (thus understanding the forces moulding his
life) or not.
Evola is not claiming
some mystical or paranormal ability, but rather the insight to “see”
this clash of world views as it plays out in the world. This requires some
ability to transcend the becomingness of the world. Evola says that by studying
a spiritual typology such as proposed by him, it is possible to develop the
faculty of discernment for oneself.
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Elements of Racial Education -- Chap 11
After scrutinizing the multitude of previous posts on
this list, I feel (suprarationally) that I am now reasonably up
to date with the progression through the chapters.
However, I have in the process of assimilation,
found two queries.
Firstly, does Evola provide a description of the
distinction between soul and spirit?
And secondly, from this supra-rational insight
cited below, is it correct to infer that this is something which can
only be correctly described by one whom has experienced it - also
implying that one whom does not experience it can never fully
understand it?
> But this is precisely the power of
"insight" to which Evola lays claim: to > be able to become conscious - by means of a
direct intuition - of such > "world views". This intuition is
not irrational, but rather suprarational. > It does not come from the experimental
sciences of the world, since its > source is transcendent to the world. Evola
traces it back to race, not in > its biological sense, but in its spiritual
sense, from which the biological > form is simply the expression.
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