Hence the title of the article : 'The Problem of Decadence'.
Without pretending to resolve it, we allow ourselves to refer to some
of the remarks we made a few weeks ago on a related subject :
Naturally, Evola is not wrong in considering that the view according
to which "Unity and purity of blood is at the root of the life and of
the force of a civilisation ; the mixing of blood is the primary
cause of its decline" is an illusion, an "illusion which, besides,
reduces the idea of civilisation to the naturalistic and biological
plane, since it is the plane on which race is conceived of more or
less today". But it is not on that most contingent plane that it is
conceived of by Evola, for whom race is essentially spirit. Thus, if,
instead of being looked at from a naturalistic and biological
standpoint, blood is conceived of as it was by the ancients, as it
really is, that is to say, as the bearer of a force which goes far
beyond the merely historical and human plane, well, then, the view
according to which "Unity and purity of blood is at the root of the
life and of the force of a civilisation ; the mixing of blood is the
primary cause of its decline" is no longer an illusion.
And it would be even more interesting to ponder on the phenomenon
of 'maternal impression' with respect to the fact that the cause of
the decline of civilisations "can never be found in the outer world,
nor can it ever be explained by purely historical and human factors".
--- In
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok" <vandermok@l...>
wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> In <
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com>
> darkiexx <tristanarpe@h...> wrote:
>
> 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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