Re: [evola_as_he_is] Elements of Racial Education -- Chap 11
Everybody knows the hermetic transposition of body, soul and spirit was sulphur-salt-mercury, while in the Olympian hierarchy are the three divine brothers, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, to control sky, waters, underworld, images derived from the Hindu Trimurti and the Buddhist Trikaya.
Dante, in the Divine Comedy, has painted these worlds or vehicles on a moral canvas during the Middle Age.
In fact, it is well known that also not-Aryan traditions followed such a tripartition, from the Ancient Egypt (Ka, Ba, Akh) till Saint Paul (blood, water, spirit).
Since I was quoting Dante, we have to remember that if he chose rightly as guide for his inner journey the pagan Virgil, on the other hand he was strongly influenced by the Sufism, being a Fedele d'Amore, so his concept of soul and spirit felt the effect, talking of "intelletto d'amore" (loves intellect) opposite but correlative to the Sufi intelligence of the hearth; in this respect, Beatrice (she-who-beatifies) represents the soul of the poet projected outside.
Evola considered the Middle Age and his great Ghibelline an attempt for re-establishing the true Tradition, but that tripartition, especially regarding the soul's and spirit's limits, will results less definite, like on the contrary spiritual and temporal powers result already irrevocably separated from the day in which was pronounced the famous evangelic sentence: "Render therefore unto Caesar's the things which are Caesar's, and undo God the things that are God's".
Evola refers to the traditional distinction between soul and spirit in countless occasions, and explains it, from 'Revolt against the Modern World' to 'The Hermetic Tradition' and 'Sintesi di dottrina della razza', in which it is mentioned that the body-soul-spirit trichomotomy corresponds to the Aristotelian and scholastic conception of the 'three souls', the vegetative one, the sensitive one and the intellectual one, to the Hellenic triad of soma-psyché- nous, to the Roman triad of mens-anima-corpus, and to the Indo-Aryan trinity of sthūla-ēarīra, linga-ēarīra and kārana-ēarīra.
Experience is everything, to quote an alchemist quoted by Evola in 'The Hermetic Tradition'.
--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "savitar_devi" <savitar_devi@y...> wrote: > > 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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