A fall of sorts.. Where is my red apple??
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok" <vandermok@l...>
wrote:
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> In that item it is implicitly said that if the evolutionism is a
logical impossibility, it looks the same for the opposite: how is
possible that the superior be degenerated? The answer would be a
metaphysical decision against the hierarchic principle.
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> In <
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com>
> darkiexx <tristanarpe@h...> wrote:
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> ON THE SECRET OF DEGENERATION
> Julius Evola
>
> If Christian mythology attributes the Fall of Man and the
Rebellion of the Angels to the freedom of the will, then it comes
to much the same significance. It concerns the frightening
potential that dwells
> in man of using freedom to destroy spiritually and to banish
everything that could ensure him a supra-natural value. This is a
metaphysical decision: the stream that traverses history in the most
> varied forms of the traditional-hating, revolutionary,
> individualistic, and humanistic spirit, or in short, the "modern"
spirit. This decision is the only positive and decisive cause in the
secret of degeneration, the destruction of Tradition.
>
> If we understand this, we can perhaps also grasp the sense of
those
> legends that speak of mysterious rulers who "always" exist and
have
> never died (shades of the Emperor sleeping beneath the Kyffhäuser
> mountain!). Such rulers can be rediscovered only when one achieves
> spiritual completeness and awakens a quality in oneself like that
of
> a metal that suddenly feels "the magnet", finds the magnet and
> irresistibly orients itself and moves towards it. For now, we must
> restrict ourselves to this hint. A comprehensive explanation of
> legends of that sort, which come to us from the most ancient Aryan
> source, would take us too far. At another opportunity we will
> perhaps return to the secret of reconstruction, to the "magic"
that
> is capable of restoring the fallen mass to the unalterable,
lonely,
> and invisible peaks that are still there in the heights.
>
> Deutsches Volkstum, Nr. 11, 1938.
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