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"Several friends and contributors of Atanor have expressed the wish
to reprint an old article about 'Imperialismo pagano', published in
the January-February 1914 issue of 'Salamandra', a paper which did
not have more than three issues and now unobtainable.

The argument dealt with therein, really, is today more than ever
topical, and besides, leaving aside the first two or three pages,
which refer to and work on political circumstances of the time, all
the rest of the article seems to have been written while keeping in
mind the current conditions and political tendencies. The upheavals
of this decade have not invalidated in the slightest the initiatory
vision from which this writing draws its inspiration ; or rather
what, in 1914, before the war, must surely have appeared as the
utopian and anachronistic vision of an isolated appears today to the
eyes of many Italians as a factual possibility if not as a program to
be carried out. And not many, there seems, are those who, rather than
to have had to change or to overturn their philosophical and
political conception under the irresistible pressure of the events of
the last years, saw their ideas and their predictions confirmed point
by point by the facts.

When the writer of these pages, together with very few other, invoked
against the threatening Guelfism the awakening of a heathen
imperialism, his belief and his inspiration gushed from the pure
inexhaustible source of the initiatory Pythagorean tradition and he
had no other merit than that of having succeeded in recognising the
crystal clarity of the spring water. And while current imperialists
were running, then, behind the dreams of pacifism, of
humanitarianism, of democracy, of socialism and some even of
the 'freedom of speech', the meagre group of heathens and of
Pythagoreans, conscious of the occult link which ties up the past to
the present, affirmed categorically their belief in the imperial
destinies of Rome.

Because of its initiatory Pythagorean character, and not for us to
deal with politics, we consent therefore to reprint this old article,
and we reproduce it complete and without the slightest alteration.

Topical considerations could easily be added, but we abstain from it
because Atanor is a review dedicated to initiatory studies, and it
does not deal with politics.

It is true moreover that one could also not remain indifferent to the
value and to the function to be recognised to initiatory studies and
wisdom. Neither a similar matter is lacking importance from the
political point of view, above all if one thinks or speaks about
imperial politics and wants to get a country near to a spiritual, and
not only commercial, greatness and civilisation. And, in particular,
it would be wise to think about it when the official religion,
deprived or forgetful of initiatory wisdom, usurps on earth "il loco
mio vaca", as Dante said about the Supreme Pontiff leaving Italy and
the West, at least in appearance, in a position of spiritual
inferiority.

From this contingent point of view, it is not indifferent, with
respect to esotericism and to its social function, to favour in Italy
and in Europe the Guelf or the Ghibelline current. While instead,
metaphysically speaking, the heathen or the Christian form can be
equivalent to each other as expression and veil of initiatory wisdom.
Wisdom there must be. Full stop."

As a matter of fact, Reghini's 'Imperialismo pagano' was republished
in 1924 in Atanor, to which Julius Evola collaborated rather
intensively as author of articles and of reviews. The publication of
Evola's 'Imperialismo pagano' brought an end to their collaboration.
Reghini blew up immediately at Evola, claiming to have been the
victim of a "systematic literary plundering". "The least we can note,
he wrote in a review of the book in 'Ignis' in 1929, is the really
excessive care taken by Evola in hiding his sources and the
systematic casualness with which he appropriates ideas, knowledge and
even sentences of others". Evola's reply was not long to come. In
February 1929, he replied in the third person in a loose sheet
enclosed in the second issue of 'Krur'. "Since he wrote some kind of
short article in which the expression 'heathen Imperialism' can be
found, Reghini, for whom plagiarism must be some sort of idée fixe,
almost accuses Evola of having appropriated his doctrine, doing
everything to hide its provenance. The personalistic, narrow,
envious, mentality of Reghini, linked, as a sophist, a pretentious
person and a school teacher, with petty questions of form (...) shows
off to the edification of the readers. But does Reghini seriously
believe that the fact that the heathen conception of life is the most
coherent premise of any imperialism constitutes a discovery of which
he has the privilege? And does he seriously believe that Evola, who,
before he knew him, already had a full doctrine on the values of
power, of domineering individuality, needed to borrow from him pseudo-
ideas confined to Masonic lodges and groups of anti-Catholic
blasphemers in Toscan greasy Joe's to reach what is only the direct
application on the political plane of this doctrine?".

Following which Reghini took Evola to court. The trial, however,
didn't go beyond the phase of preliminary hearing. According to a
report given by Aniceto del Massa, a former member of the 'Ur group',
who had been called by Reghini to testify against Evola, "there was
no trial. Evola offered to the court a complete withdrawal which is
to be published at his expenses in 'Roma Fascista'". However,
that "complete withdrawal" was never published, either in that paper,
nor in others.

With the prospect of the publication of 'Heidnischer Imperialismus'
in English this year, and in pursuit of our objectives of bringing to
light first-hand documentation and accurate information about Evola's
work and everything which surrounds it, we think it necessary to
bring to light in English Reghini's 'Imperialismo pagano'. That short
article is divided into four sections : Introduction - The Empire and
Christianity - The Roman Imperial Tradition - The Imperial Idea after
Dante. They will be published on this forum one after the other, in
the coming months.











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