'Castes and Races' is indeed illuminating: your head will light up
like a bulb reading that masterful rhetorician making polar opposites
appear one and the same. His argument that, from the point of view of
the "transcendent unity of religions," the promiscuity of and
disregard to race and caste in Islam is, "in essence," one and the
same with the importance to race and caste in Indo-European
traditions, is probably the most spectacular rhetorical somersault
that has ever been penned.
--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "brightimperator"
<brightimperator@...> wrote:
>
> First, I cordially thank all who promptly and instructively answered
> my last question on Guenon, Evola and Hyperborea. (I suppose
> Guenon's racial views will remain ambiguous until further data comes
> to light. Incidentally, does anyone know in which book(s) Guenon
> positively cites Arctic-Aryan theorist Bal Gangadhar Tilak? This
> would almost seem to imply on Guenon's part an implicit endorsement
> of Tilak's overall worldview. In relation to Aryan prowess, Tilak
> concluded that "the vitality and superiority of the Aryan races, as
> disclosed by their conquest, by extermination or assimilation, of
> the non-Aryan races with whom they came in contact...is intelligible
> only on the assumption of a high degree of civilization in their
> original Arctic home.")
>
> Recently, due to largely extra-academic, political (leftist)
> efforts, what is called "the Aryan Invasion Theory" is no longer
> fashionable in academic circles. Evola takes the AIT theory and Indo-
> European racial basis of the Indian caste system for granted, and
> this forms a key part of his worldview, as he posits the Eastern
> Aryans preserved more of the original Hyperborean spirit in their
> religious creations (Vedism, Buddhism) than the comparatively
> degenerated Western Aryans. The references in the Vedic scripture
> to "Indra's white-complexioned friends" and their conflict with
> the "lawless, riteless, noseless black Dasyu", etc., seem clear
> enough to me, as do the references in Buddhist literature to its
> aristocratic founder's moon-colored countenance and deep blue eyes.
> The owner of this list already posted modern genetic studies of
> Indians, which tend to support the racial duality between the Afro-
> Asian lower castes and the European-like higher castess. What I am
> looking for are 1) non-counter-traditional, objective studies
> relating to the historical-racial and eugenic aspects of the Indian
> caste system and 2) the subjects of castes and races and their
> interactions in general.
>
> Relevantly and intriguingly, the well-known Traditionalist Frithjof
> Schuon authored a short and extremely hard-to-find book
> entitled "Castes and Races". I have yet to acquire this probably
> illuminating book, but in "To Have a Center" Schuon denounces race-
> mixing as equivalent to destructive caste-mixing and as anti-
> Traditional: "Another point to be considered is the personal center
> in connection with certain racial factors. If the mixture between
> races too different from each other is to be avoided, it is
> precisely because this disparity generally has as a consequence that
> the individual possesses two centers, which means practically that
> he has none; in other words, that he has no identity..."
>