Madison Grant's most famous book is not called 'The Decline of the
White Race', as stated below, but 'The Passing of the Great Race',
translated in 1926 in French as 'Le Déclin de la grande race' (Payot,
Paris), with a pugnacious preface by Vacher de Lapouge.
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "evola_as_he_is"
<evola_as_he_is@y...> wrote:
>
> Since the publication of Joscelin Godwin's book on 'The Polar
Myth',
> the original concept has extended to encompass a wide range of
occult
> myths of the Arctic, such as that of the 'Hollow Earth', that of
> the 'UFO's', that of the hidden kingdom of Shambala and Agartha,
and
> that of the Third Reich in Antarctica. To Evola and to other
authors,
> it was limited to the theory according to which the terrestrial
seat
> of Hyperborea, of Thule, was the home of the original man, that is,
> of the original Aryan man.
>
> Guénon himself, who, for reasons explained by Madison Grant in the
> fifth chapter of 'The Decline of the White Race', was right and
wrong
> at the same time in contesting the existence of an 'Aryan race' in
> the 'Introduction to the Studies of Hindu Doctrines', acknowledged
> both the actuality of a terrestrial Hyperborea and its symbolic
> dimension : "Almost every tradition has its name for this mountain,
> such as the Hindu Meru, the Persian Alborj, and the Montsalvat of
> Western Grail legend. There is also the Arab mountain Qaf and the
> Greek Olympus, which has in many ways the same significance. This
> consists of a region that, like the Terrestrial Paradise, has
become
> inaccessible to ordinary humanity, and that is beyond the reach of
> those cataclysms which upset the human world at the end of certain
> cyclic periods. This region is the authentic 'supreme country'
which,
> according to certain Vedic and Avestan texts, was originally sited
> towards the North Pole, even in the literal sense of the word."
(The
> King of the World')
>
> "To say that the Aryans come from a polar region does not exhaust
> completely that mystery", if you refer to the thesis according to
> which they come from space, which Evola never considered, even in
the
> article you mention : 'I "Dischi volanti" non sono palle a fulgore'
> (''Flying saucers' are not fireballs'), 'Il Meridiano d'Italia', 21
> November 1954, followed, one month after, still in the same paper,
> by 'Attendiamo che cadono' ('We are waiting for them to fall'). The
> former is based on the information gathered on the UFO's by... the
> secret services of the US air force. Who said Evola didn't have any
> sense of humour? In the latter, he made a prudent judgement on the
> phenomenon, about which, according to him, it is premature to draw
> conclusions, since "no UFO has ever fallen on earth" and,
therefore,
> no one has been able to examine them in a scientific manner to
> determine whether or not the technology they are based on is human
or
> not.
>
> This article ends up with a question which anyone conscious of
> the 'occult war' should ask oneself : "WHAT'S THE AIM OF THE
> APPARITION OF THE FYING SAUCERS?"
>
>
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok@a..."
> <vandermok@l...> wrote:
> > I did not mean Evola has been cautious on polar myth but about
the
> mysterious origin of Aryans race, at least to me. To say that
Aryans
> come from a polar region does not exhaust completely that mystery.
I
> would desire a world more about. That's all.
> >
> > About the underworld, we already pointed out the ambiguity of
this
> concept. It is not casual that some people believe that the UFO
come
> from that Hollow Earth and/or from the future. By the way, even if
> Evola quoted sometimes the flying saucers, unfortunately he was
> evasive about; but after all, even if we have today more
information
> than him, the conclusions are scanty all the same.
> >
> > F.