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The matter is complex also because the definitions wet and dry refer mostly to alchemy, while right-hand and left-hand paths have a more vague range. The plot thickens when both these last paths can show a wet or dry nature, for not speaking of the further distinction made by Evola, in the wet path, between a praxis of the breath and one of the blood.

We see the difficulty looking at figures like the Samurai, warrior and ascetic, and like the Templar Knights, warriors but devoted to a Dantean "Candida Rosa"; consider also the distinction between a shaman and a berserker.

The term "wet" involves the Shakti but also the common woman, and so the "corrosive waters" of the soul, projected into the lunar world of phases, tides, saps. 
Probably,we could define the devotion to Parvati or to the Virgin (profane reflections of the Shakti)as a wet side of the right-hand path or even as a dry side of the left-hand path, and so on.
 
F.
 
 
In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com evola_as_he_is wrote:
 
It remains to see whether or not the respective definition of
the 'left-hand path' and of the 'right-hand path' you refer to, and
which is closely akin to that of Western occultists, corresponds to
Evola's. For now, we limit ourselves to quote Evola, who, in 'Il
Cammino del cinabro', after having recalled that 'Lo Yoga della
potenza' ('The Yoga of Power') dealt with the 'wet path', that is to
say, the "assertion, the assumption, the use and the transformation
of immanent freed forces up to the awakening of the Shakti as
fundamental root of any vital energy and especially of sex", pointed
out that "'La Dottrina del risveglio' ('The doctrine of Awakening')
is about the 'dry path', that is to say, the 'intellectual' one, of
pure detachment'. Twenty years before, he made the same point in the
last chapter of 'La Dottrina del risveglio'.

In this book, everything shows that, to Evola, the 'right-hand' path
is that which is the most suitable for ascetics, while, in 'Lo Yoga
della potenza', the 'left-hand' path is considered to be of
a 'dionysian' nature. Please note that he referred the 'right-hand
path', not to the 'wet path', but to the 'dry path'.

This being said, this matter is complex.


--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "skyegamble89"
<skyegamble89@y...> wrote:
>
> If I am incorrect, I apologize in advance, but why do you call
> Buddhism a
> "right-hand path"? If I remember correctly, Buddhism, at least the
> original,
> Aryan Buddhism which Evola explains in "The Doctrine of Awakening",
> would
> actually be classified as a "left-hand path" or "dry path" along
with
> Tantrism-
> although the methods used are different, the basic idea is the same.
> In the
> "right-hand path" the individual relies on deities, imposed
morality,
> etc. The
> "left-hand path", on the other hand, is tread by those who can
> support
> themselves, who can make their own way. I believe this is explained
> as well
> in the first volume of "Introduction to Magic".
>
> In the same vein, there are three types of human being who practice
> Tantrism
> (pashu, virya, divya) corresponding to the three gunas (tamas,
rajas,
> sattvas).
> The pashu (from "pasha", bonds), I believe, follows the "right-hand"
> or "wet"
> path, while the virya (heroic type) and divya (godly, or what Evola
> would call
> "Olympian" type) follow the "left-hand" or dry path.
>
> Dugin wrote an essay on the subject which can be found at Arctogaia-
> "The
> Gnostic". In it, he speaks with great hostility towards those who
> follow the
> "right-hand path"- which is of course due to a great
misunderstanding
> on his
> part.
>
> Thank you,
> Skye J. Gamble










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