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RE: [evola_as_he_is] Elements of Racial Education -- Chap 9

Firstly, I will admit that I have absolutely no knowledge of Evola's teachings of race, so please hold that in mind when reading my reply.
 
>I don’t know which wording you are referring to – Evola’s point is that the race >of the spirit and soul is expressed through the body.
 
This is what I was referring to - if the physical form is in itself a mirror of the racial soul, then isn't this also a type of biologism/naturalism or perhaps even genetic predeterminism?
 
I would have to say with all honesty that I have known men, either short or fat that I would classify as more inline with the Aryan ideal than some tall, lean, energetic types - whilst it possibly more Nordic to apply that particular mesomorph I do think that what one holds on the interior is ultimately of higher value than his exterior appearance.


Tony Ciopa <hyperborean@...> wrote:
This booklet contains the barest outline of Evola’s ideas on race. Since I had never been particularly interested in that topic until I read this, I am not familiar with his other works which may expand upon these ideas. (That’s a situation I plan to rectify over the next few months.)
 
You may have noticed that I took the liberty to retranslate the passage a bit – the original text on page 31 has “nervous” where I have put “energetic”. I would have translated “thin” as “lean”. I doubt Evola was recommending the “skinny, nervous” type of guy as the ideal. “Lean and energetic” makes more sense here. I would also bet that the word translated as “slim” is “snello”, not “magro”. My grandmother used to complain that I was too thin (magro), as she filled my plate with another serving of pasta!
 
Perhaps the moderator would be so kind as to give us the original text – including the word translated as “straight”. I suspect “erect” would be a better translation.
 
So now: a “lean, tall, energetic, erect” body – that sound much more Aryan to me. Sorry, no way can I make it “short and fat”, but at least we are not ruling out the mesomorph.
 
As to why? Evola explains: “It is not a matter of indifference that a body has this shape rather than that one: it is not by chance and without consequence.” `[my rewording].
 
I don’t know which wording you are referring to – Evola’s point is that the race of the spirit and soul is expressed through the body.
 
Don’t forget, too, that Evola is expressing the ideal, and ideal that many of us may be far from due to the factors mentioned (cross-breeding, hybridisation), so that the inner unity of an individual may be lost. There is a life’s task involved: to develop our introspective and intuitive faculties, to be able to discern those spiritual and soulish factors that constitute our interiority. This requires concentration, but the end result may be to achieve a more unified sense of spirit and soul. If we dig back far enough, we may be able to find that primordial Aryan spirit within.
 
As for the nation, Evola’s purpose is writing this tract was to outline a racial education for young people, so they would be able to recreate a purer race over time. Of course, such an education is out of the question anywhere in the Western world anymore. I suspect that we will begin to see racially aware groups of people begin to withdraw from the wider society to create their own communities.
 
 
 


Three heavens there are; two Savitar's, adjacent:
In Yama's world is one, home of heroes.
As on a linch-pin, firm, rest things immortal:
He who hath known it, let him here declare it.
 
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Unfortunately, you are not the only one who cannot verify if that quotation is accurate : 'Scienza, razza et scientismo' is found in an anthology of writings...
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Firstly, I will admit that I have absolutely no knowledge of Evola's teachings of race, so please hold that in mind when reading my reply. ... This is what I...
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Dec 11, 2005
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You didn't need to admit that you have absolutely no knowledge of Evola's teachings of race. A review of 'The Elements of Racial Education', which, 65 years or...
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in evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com ... This means simply that the races are too mixed up today. Anyway, the observations of Evola have always a qualitative...
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Hello, In this chapter of 'The Elements of Racial Education', Evola refers implicitly to the demographic battle launched by Mussolini at the beginning of the...
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Hello, Evola speaks of "racial elites", while Guénon speaks of "spiritual elites", or, more precisely, for reasons which he had the occasion to explain and...
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vandermok says: "If you do not recognize this as "racism", well, it is a problem of yours: use another word, but inwardly" fuck you, vandermok. I shall use...
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May 31, 2005
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In evola_as_he_is Thompkins&Cariou wrote: (...) According to him, this failure was due to Italian Catholic circles on one hand and to Italian official...
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Hello, This only proves our point: "National-Socialism was far from being a a monolithic entity". There are strong grounds for thinking, for example, that Dr...
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I came upon this article by Evola on Joseph de Maistre: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1404/maistre.html In it, Evola mentions that Masonry at the time...
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Hello, This article was written and published in 1972 on the publication of a new Italian edition of 'Les Soirées de Saint-Petersbourg'. With thirty nine...
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Hello, A comma at the end of the address of the site we gave yesterday prevents you from accessing the site by clicking the link. Here it is again: ...
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Hello again, This cannot but remind us of de Maistre's most pertinent comment on 'man', on Montesquieu's 'man', a comment whose causticity is not much felt in...
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