Evola and Il mondo magico

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  • mortlake2002
    Hello, I am interested in finding more information about Evola s attitude toward, and interpretation of, Cesare della Riviera s Il mondo magico degli heroi .
    Message 1 of 6 , Dec 27, 2013
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      Hello,


      I am interested in finding more information about Evola's attitude toward, and interpretation of, Cesare della Riviera's "Il mondo magico degli heroi". I know that Evola edited this text for publication and that he considered it a very important source of hermetic philosophy but he doesn't seem to mention it at all in "The path of cinnabar" (even though he refers to it fairly frequently in "The hermetic tradition"). I am also trying to find something - anything - about della Riviera. Thank you in advance for your help and have a Happy New Near!

      Mortlake2002
    • evola_as_he_is
      Thank you, and the same to you. The book is available online at
      Message 2 of 6 , Dec 30, 2013
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        Thank you, and the same to you.


        The book is available online at http://books.google.fr/books/about/Il_mondo_magico_de_gli_heroi_del_sig_Ces.html?id=_ItttHcYKsgC&redir_esc=y, in its original edition. J. Evola’s (Bari, 1932) is divided into chapters with titles of his own. It was reviewed by R. Guénon in 'Le Voile d’Isis' (October, 1932); the review was republished in Compte rendus, Ed. Traditionnelles, 1973, which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been published in English by Sophia Perennis.

        This is an excerpt from the introduction :

        “In spite of quite a few impurities, careful disguises and adaptations for the use and benefit of the dominant Catholic religion, a syncretism which is sometimes dubious and confusing, a labyrinth of symbols and of fanciful and enigmatic etymologies - the book of della Riviera contains the basic teachings about the symbolic-magic vision of nature, about the solar integration of spirit and body, about the “heroic” conquest of (...) the Tree of Life, and hence of a power that regenerates and makes immortal and of a dignity that gives all “supernatural” qualities; the teachings which form the core of what, in the traditional world, at all times and in all places, was known and actualised as Sacred Science by the ruling elites, can thus be found in it.”

      • mortlake2002
        Thank you kindly for this information. I believe that you are right about the absence of an English translation of Guenon s book reviews even though it has
        Message 3 of 6 , Jan 3, 2014
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          Thank you kindly for this information. I believe that you are right about the absence of an English translation of Guenon's book reviews even though it has been included into Sophia Perennis' prospectus of his collected works. As for della Riviera's book, it is really curious that - to the best of my knowledge - it is not mentioned in any general treatment of Renaissance esotericism. Only fairly recently Joscelyn Godwin made it part of the plot of his co-authored novel "The Forbidden Book" (which I haven't read yet).


          Happy New Year again,

          Mortlake 2002

        • evola_as_he_is
          The table of contents of The Collected works is nowhere to be found on the Internet, not even on SP website. Not only the book is not mentioned in any
          Message 4 of 6 , Jan 3, 2014
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            The table of contents of "The Collected works' is nowhere to be found on the Internet, not even on SP website.


            Not only the book is not mentioned in any general treatment of Renaissance esotericism, but also there is no biographical data whatsoever available on the author.


          • mortlake2002
            The table of contents of The Collected works is nowhere to be found on the Internet, not even on SP website. In every volume of the Sophia Perennis edition
            Message 5 of 6 , Jan 5, 2014
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              "The table of contents of "The Collected works' is nowhere to be found on the Internet, not even on SP website."


              In every volume of the Sophia Perennis edition of Guenon's opus, right after the editorial note, there is printed a list called "The Works of Rene Guenon". The penultimate item on it is called "Reviews" (1973). Since the list is in English, it appears to be a prospectus for the entire undertaking. In fact, every single publication on the list has been translated and published by Sophia Perennis - except "Reviews". That's what I was referring to.


              Best regards,

              Mortlake2002


            • timotheus.lutz
              The editors of the Collected Works of Guénon in English apparently placed most of the review articles from Compte rendus in the other books, based on
              Message 6 of 6 , Feb 7
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                The editors of the 'Collected Works' of Guénon in English apparently placed most of the review articles from Compte rendus in the other books, based on subject matter. Studies in Hinduism has the most, and Studies in Freemasonry and the Compagnonnage has quite a few, including reviews of some of de Poncins' books. What was stated above proves that not all the reviews were included in the series, and I have heard that for whatever reasons Editions Traditionnelles has decided not to make available some of his reviews.


                I would have preferred a separate volume collecting all the reviews, but Guénon's writings were at least treated with a modicum of respect, which unfortunately cannot be said for Evola's books in English.  

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