Evola concludes the "Elements of Racial Education" with the chapter
titled the "Historical Place of Fascist Racism". He starts from the
quadripartition of castes of the various Aryan civilisations: viz., the
division into (1) the spiritual leaders, (2) the warlike aristocracy,
(3) the bourgeoisie, and (4) the servile caste.
As Guenon's analysis demonstrates, what moderns are happy to call
"evolution" is nothing but the fall of the power and domination of the
higher castes to the successively lower castes. Bringing in the Hermetic
principal "As above, so below", Evola points out that the
differentiation and hierarchy of the human organization in the state
corresponds to the differentiation within man: (1) spirit, (2) will, (3)
the processes of organic economy, and (4) pure corporeality.
The point of this is that when a man loses the two higher principals
– spirit and will – he loses his own quality and personality,
degenerating into the undifferentiated and sub-personal. Evola proceeds
with a succinct demonstration of this
principal playing out in history – a demonstration that is all too
obvious to the Traditional mind, yet seemingly absurd, if not insane, to
the modern.
This brings Evola to the historical context of Fascism. On its positive
side, it seeks to reconstruct the two higher planes of the
uadripartition. Thus, it denies internationalism, cosmopolitanism,
materialism and rationalism. The values restored are those of blood and
race: "of human groups which are most differentiated by the deep forces
of their origins, by effective and powerful forces, beyond all economic
determinism, mass materialism, battered bourgeois culture and
individualistic disintegration."
Therefore, Fascism needs to see that "the values, the modes of being,
and the modes of feeling" of the two higher castes be
restored. To this end, it must be understood that "race, besides having
a biological and anthropological meaning, assumes, more and more
distinctly, a heroic and aristocratic one. Community of blood or race
will be the premise, the base. But, within such a community, an adapted
selective process will establish further differences, according to which
something similar to a new aristocracy will be able to arise." This
groups will manifest race beyond that of the body, in terms of the
"heroic soul, of a style an honour and loyalty."
Evola decries the banalisation of the "Aryan" concept, which has become
little more than a synonym for "anti-Semite" or not non-white. It must
be restored to its original meaning to be "a race of the spirit,
specifically, of either solar or heroic type". This will eradicate the
sense of materialism and zoologism as applied to race, and restore its
proper meaning in the supra-mundane and supra-temporal.