RE: [evola_as_he_is] Elements of Racial Education -- Chap 2
Thank you for this important
clarification. It goes without saying that a Traditionalist thinker like Evola
would not be interested in introducing novelties.
I think that we can agree that biological
race is necessary for racial consciousness – after all, this is precisely
where “individual life communicates with a life more than individual”.
Yet, on the other hand, it is not sufficient, and that is the point of this
chapter.
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of Racial Education -- Chap 2
Hello,
It should be
emphasised that it is not Evola, but some ancient peoples
themselves, who related this to the idea of "blood", through expressions
which the Italian author recalled in this chapter of 'The Elements of
Racial Education'. Generally speaking, it would be a mistake to
think that Evola built a racial theory ex nihilo. On the contrary,
this racial theory is based to a large extent on teachings going back
to Aryan antiquity, as is clear for those familiar with ancient Rome and Vedic
civilisation. For instance, the "race of the soul"
and the "race of the spirit" on one hand, the "race of the body"
on the other hand, can be referred respectively to the Roman notions of
"sanguis" and "cruor", two Latin words for
"blood", which mean
respectively "gore" and "vigour, life, vital force; race, lineage"
and can both be found as a pair in the main works of most Latin
authors, from Ausonius to Ovid, from Caesar to Lucian. "Race lives in
blood [sanguis] 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. This the
Ancients knew well in their veneration of the Lares, the Penates, the
archetypal heroes, the 'demon [see message 32] of a gens,
entities which conceal the whole mystery of blood and the mystical
forces of race".
This doesn't
mean in any way that biological race is not important, far from it.
Anticipating on your review of the sixth chapter of 'The Elements of
Racial Education', it must be recalled that the Dharma is considered
also as a biological, eugenic principle in the Nyâya- Sûtra, since
it is defined as "what protects descendents by the non- mixing of
genetically different groups (asamkara)" (translation by V.R.
Talasikar, in "The sociological concept of dharma", Pr. Bh., September
1939, p.455)
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