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:
http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/ushmm.html
Thompkins&Cariou
--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "evola_as_he_is"
<evola_as_he_is@y...> wrote:
> 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 other essays, it was published by Mediterranee in 1974
in
> an anthology called 'Ricognizioni'. All the articles which appear
in
> this anthology were chosen by Evola himself, a few months before
his
> death.
>
> This article ends with these words, which will find an echo in
those
> who have more than the clear impression that the West has turned
into
> a sort of zoo : "We do not resist temptation to quote what de
Maistre
> said on woman: "A woman can only be superior as woman, but, as soon
> as she tries to equal man, she is just a she-monkey". Whether the
> various current 'feminist' movements like it or not, it is the
whole
> truth". It sounds even truer - it has an even greater weight when
it
> is a bearer of the ancient Roman ethics and world-outlook who says
it.
>
> Manly 'anti-feminism', virulent critique of the modern notion
> of 'progress', etc., all the strong points of the thought of this
> author who is often considered as the main herald and theoretician
of
> the French counter-revolution are duly stressed, with his usual
> ability to get straight to the point, by Evola, who, however, has
> also the merit to draw the reader's attention to its weaknesses,
due
> essentially to the limitations peculiar to the catholic point of
> view, be it 'traditionalist'.
>
> Evola's judgment on Masonry didn't escape you. He even said that it
> was "very different from the most recent Masonry". Yet, he doesn't
> elaborate, neither in this article, nor in the few articles he
wrote
> on Masonry. Basically, Evola must have asked himself the same
> question as anyone conscious of and sensitive to the anti-
traditional
> character of Masonry does: how come fundamentally sane spirits can
> join Masonic lodges? Dieter Schwarz, in a work on Masonry with a
> preface by SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich (*), has offered an
> explanation, at least with respect to the German intellectual
figures
> and political characters of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries; it
> remains to be seen whether this most plausible explanation can be
> applied to cases like that of de Maistre. It can be read in a few
> days at http://thompkins_cariou.tripod.com.
>
> Thompkins&Cariou
>
> (*) to realise the extent of the determination of the national-
> socialist leadership to get rid of Masonry once and for all, please
> see http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/ushmm.html, knowing that
> this document is produced by Masons and it is not exhaustive, far
> from it.
>
>
>
>
> --- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Ciopa"
> <hyperborean@b...> wrote:
> > 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 of de Maistre was
> different
> > from its later incarnations. ("nel quadro della massoneria, la
> quale a quel
> > tempo era assai diversa da quella più recente, tanto che lo
stesso
> de
> > Maistre ne fece parte")
> >
> > Though it seems that de Maistre was actually involved with
> Martinism.
> >
> > The rest of the book review may be of interest to some. While
Evola
> rejects
> > de Maistre's Christian concept of divine Providence, there are
> other aspects
> > of his thought (which stem from the esoteric current in de
Maistre
> derived
> > from Louis Claude de St Martin) that appeal to Evola.